Questions tagged [drainage]
Use this tag when the topic is about controlling water runoff, particularly near structures but also in yards or elsewhere.
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Slope dricore subfloor or not?
I have half an unfinished basement with sewage stacks sticking out above the concrete. I had used Dricore on one side easily, but this side is with the laundry area, the sewage stacks and the slope of ...
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How do I lower 20 feet of my asphalt driveway about 3-5 inches before recoating it?
The previous owner had a contractor install an asphalt driveway which is higher than the side entrance concrete pad. This apparently made it easier for him to enter the house, but also allowed rain ...
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What's the best way to add a utility sink drain to this current setup?
Code: New Jersey
I'm looking to add a utility sink in the basement and am looking for the best way to modify this drainage system to include the utility sink drain.
My thoughts are to take the ...
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Do I need to repair the "plaster cement" around my drain?
My linear shower drain clogged so I removed the drain grate and unclogged it. Now I have some spaces between the tile and the drain channel. This gap was filled with some sort of plaster cement but I ...
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How to re-route this downspout between the back doors if adding a tile patio?
https://imgur.com/a/yFtgzfz
I am trying to help a friend design a patio off the back of their house. They want Saltillo tile to match their front porch, over a concrete pad with shared steps coming ...
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Maximum length of a rain chain
Can I hang a rain chain with cups from a gutter on a two story house? Will it get too heavy when it rains?
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Drainage pipe with sock or without sock behind retaining wall?
I am building a 4ft retaining wall that is 65ft long and the soil I have is sandy, I live in NM, I'm going to bury a 4in corregated perforated pipe but I don't know if it should have a sock on it or ...
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Patency of culvert
The drainage ditch has been turned into a culvert (4-5m pipe) on the plot we want to buy. Water enters in front of the property and falls out on the other side of the property. As the future owner of ...
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How can I implement an NRV in brickwork or masonry?
Location: Nagpur, India
Glossary:
NRV = Non-return valve / One-way valve
PVC = Poly Vinyl Chloride
SWR = Soil, Waste, Rain
Over the years repair/renovation of the street in front of the house has ...
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Weep Vents for double skin retaining wall
I'm going to building a retaining wall to level my garden. The wall is not touching the house, I'm trying to work out the drainage solutions for this wall. Its not going to be too dissimilar from the ...
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How to allow water to drain from my driveway?
My driveway is sloped in such a way that all the runoff goes to this one corner, but it readily gets blocked with debris from the trees. What can I do to keep the water flowing, other than regularly ...
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How to manage water on a complicated Cut & Fill Lot? [closed]
I've been seeing water infiltration problems in my crawl space/open basement. The house is built on a cut & fill lot, with what I suspect is a sloped sandstone formation underneath the house.
I'm ...
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Flooding problem
I have an area between my concrete drive way and house that floods every time we have a hard rain. The water seeps through the brick and floods my living room. What is the best and cheapest way to fix ...
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Is it permissible to connect water softener drain(s) to tub/shower unit overflow drain? How?
My A.O. Smith water softener system (6-month sediment pre-filter, 6-year whole-house filter tank, 6-year descaler tank, and 6-month sediment post-filter) seems not up to the job of softening the local ...
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Gurgling drains
Why does my toilet and bath tub drain gurgle when the upstairs neighbors flush the toilet. The toilet gurgling has gotten more louder and forceful over the past couple of weeks.
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How urgently do I need to fix soakaways drilled adjacent to my foundations - and what is the best method?
I have recently moved into a Victorian/Georgian mid-terrace house, built 1854, with solid rubble/stone walls perhaps 18 inches thick. Both front and back outside levels were too high when we moved in, ...
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How should I keep water from pooling in front of my porch during snowmelt/heavy rains?
This is a terrible picture of my house, from the top. The blue lines are my attempt at contour lines. The front yard is relatively flat. There is a low area (marked with a red X) in front of the ...
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Do we need an air vent pipe for percolation (septic) tank?
I'm going to set up water percolation tank( made of cement rings ) for filtered septic water from septic tank.
Is it necessary to have air vent pipe? but it could cause some foul smell.
Would it be a ...
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How to best stabilize uneven ceramic pots?
I'm in the process of replanting my houseplants form their old plastic pots into new fancy ceramic pots. The bottom of these pots and the surface of their saucers are quite rough and uneven, so the ...
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How do I connect a piece of PVC between two points, when there is no "give"?
As can be seen in the pic above and the title, I'm stuck on how to connect this last piece of drain pipe to the floor drain. I have a sch. 40 socket Wye which has not been cemented yet to the floor ...
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How do I prevent mud flow from neighbor's yard around metal fence posts?
The neighbor carted in a lot of dirt and raised it about 18" -24" higher than my yard on the other side of the fence. I have a French drain, but the mud from their yard keeps flowing into my ...
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Where to outlet the water that comes from storm drain and gutters, to prevent soil/roots getting into pipe?
In my house, currently, all the water that comes from gutters and storm drains goes into one main underground 4-inch PVC pipe that outlets at the end of my backyard, right into under the soil, at 1-1/...
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How to know where water from gutters is going?
My gutters are connected to pipes that go underground. I am trying to figure out where these pipes are connected to ,and ultimately where is the water going.
The previous owners didn't give me any ...
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Drainage for playground with 12 inches retaining wall?
I am building a playground area, and as part of having the ground level, I ended up building a retaining wall, and I have a question about drainage. Some data on the project:
The wall will be ...
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Do I need water traps on my sinks with dry-well greywater collection?
My house has been fitted with water traps in toilet and bathrooms drains which is quite good, but I can see that my kitchen sink, washing machine outlet pipe and regular wash basin don't have water ...
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Maintenance of internal roof drain
we have an internal roof drainage system on a 1880 small condo building in New England (MA) that goes to the sewer drain pipe. I just cleaned the outlet for the first time since we moved in. I am ...
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Can you build a rain diverter with a double T and a toilet plunger?
I'm reading the GrowNYC Rainwater Harvesting Guide and I see in the diagram a "winterizing tee" - a double tee with a reference to a plunger. Are they really just talking about a toilet ...
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What type of drainage solution for water trapped between my walkway and foundation?
I have a walkway that runs 16 inches parallel to my foundation along the entire side of my house. The walkway elevation is also higher than the top of the foundation where it meets the brick. This ...
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How to couple 4" round corrugated downspout to plain round
I'd like to connect a 4" plain round downspout filter to an existing 4" round corrugated downspout. Do I need a specific type of coupling to do that, or will the 4" corrugated fit ...
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Can I divert my roof stormwater away from my storm drain and to a dirt patch 20 yards away
So I have a townhouse in New York City and I've been getting sewage backup from storm water. I added a sewage backflow prevention valve at the front of the house at the sewer, but the shared storm ...
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Slip joint nut leaks at PVC-copper joint in sink drain pipe
The 1.5 in PVC-copper slip nut joint (red arrow in the picture below) is leaking (slow drip) from the lower part of the joint.
I've tried taken them apart and replace the red rubber gasket, cleaned ...
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Can an underground drain pipe cause water seepage into basement where floor and wall meet in the front and side of a house?
We have three water issues on one side of our 1934 house. Our house sits beneath our adjacent neighbor's 2018 cruise ship of a McMansion that runs the full length of our home and backyard four stories ...
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how to divert a corrugated round downspout when I can only find non corrugated adapters
I need to add a downspout diverter to my 3" round corrugated downspout. I have a combined sewer and storm sewer system in my basement and don't want it to overflow during heavy fast downpours ...
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Keeping sand out of a yard drain in a sand pit
tl/dr: I have a large sandy pit where I have to put the entrance for a
yard/french drain. I can't remove the sand. I'll be building a deck
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How to proactively prevent termite infestation
I'm seeing ants boring holes through Tiles and ejecting sand and I'm told ants are first to come then comes the Termite.
Outside my building I'm seeing lots of ant colonies where if can lay our feet , ...
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Scare off snakes from a weed full land [closed]
I have just inherited an acre of residential land. The land is full of weeds and some trees. It is 2-3 metres below the road that lies near it. It is as I believe infested with snakes.
How can I scare ...
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Daylighting an interior french drain
My basement floods about twice a year (maybe 1/2" of water or so) after excessive rainfall or ice melt, and stays flooded for about a day before the water recedes. The basement is half above ...
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Should downspouts drain into perforated or solid pipe?
I recently had a contractor re-grade and replace the concrete pad alongside my house, primarily to fix drainage problems. Previously, my downspouts emptied onto cracked concrete where water could seep ...
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Why there is a wye under a pedestal?
Is there a reason why the builder used a wye under the pedestal with one end capped with a mechanical cap.
The P-Trap is located under the floor.
I’m replacing the pedestal with a vanity.
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French Drain or solid PVC pipe
I live in Southern California, it barely rains here. However, I am working on my yard and just built a retaining wall and was required to use perforated 4" pvc pipe behind it.. Now I need to do ...
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Carport Expansion Walls Rotted From Water Damage
We just bought a fixer upper and it seems like some pretty significant issues were missed in the inspection.
The inspection mentioned settling in the corner of the living room and rodent activity.
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Can water percolation affect RCC column and footer
There's water percolation around the building due to dry wells which were installed for waste water.
I worry whether this water percolation affect the RCC column and footer which is my foundation ?
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How to protect Building foundation from Dry wells
We have installed 6 dry wells around the building as there was no empty space for drainage water.
We did this as per the engineer's advice.
Sand texture:
It's clay
Water table 5 feet
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Home condensation pump emptying into sewage pipe. Is this functionally okay?
I was looking at a house and noticed they had a condensation pump for a hot water heater going directly into one of the houses sewage pipes, which empties into the property's septic tank. See images ...
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Retrofitting Drain Where Patio Meets Retaining Wall
I just installed a patio 24' x 22' with a retaining wall that is around the perimeter of it, and it looks like water pools too much at the end of the slope (where patio meets retaining wall). There ...
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Flo-well dry well pipe size
This weekend I’m going to install a flo-well dry well from my basement sump outside into my yard… question is I know the flo wants 4” pipe into it but is it best to run a full 4” the whole way or ...
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Elevating portable air conditioner's condensate drain
I'm familiar with window and split air conditioners but new to portable ones.
My portable AC has an upper and a lower plugs that can be used to drain the condensation water. Both are two low for ...
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I dug a pit to drain my sinks, bathtubs and washing machine water into, the water from the washing machine comes above ground. What have I done wrong?
I dug a 8ft X 6ft pit to drain my sinks, bathtubs and washing machine water into. The ground had right much clay but was able to get past that and into sand. I put 4 ft of rock in the pit, ran a 4&...
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How close to align pavers up to a timber retaining wall
I'm wanting to lay concrete pavers on a walkway sloped towards a timber retaining wall.
The question I have is how close to the timber retaining wall should I lay the pavers. Laid immediately up to ...
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Crack across front of garage floor
I have a crack across the entire front of my garage floor. I believe that the crack was caused by a poor drainage issue that has been corrected. The drainage issue also caused the pavers in front of ...
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