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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Can water percolation pit affect RCC column and footer
We have water percolation pits installed around the house to handle waste water from kitchen , washing machine and bathroom.
I worry whether this water percolation pit can affect the RCC column and ...
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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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Solutions for roof drainage with large amounts of water/ice?
My new shop is 30x60, single sloped the LONG way (water drains along 60 feet). This is making for some large amounts of water coming off the end during storms, which makes washouts on the sloped ...
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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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Swimming pool as water barrel for irrigation
I have a 60 year old concrete swimming pool still in good condition but not used as a pool for 20 years. It is now a nature pool good for fireflies, bats, toads, ducks, etc. The original chain link ...
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Mountain top drainage issue
We live atop a large hill and due to how the driveway is I constantly have water and mud on top of a small area of my driveway. This area is supposed to be a low area to care water down the driveway ...
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Extend underground rainwater drain pipe down hill
I need to extend an underground drain pipe.
The current pipe is underground a few inches and ends at the top of a hill that's a few feet tall. The hill is angled at (perhaps) 35 degrees.
The current ...
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Replace pop-up with flip sink drain covers?
I had my house replumbed to code and put new sink basins in with pop up wastes. But I find that the water drains slowly, and the brand I'm using breaks easily so that they don't click in and out. I've ...
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drainage problem from kitchen sink
My kitchen sink(double sink) backs up, there is no clog I have removed the trap, I have also removed the basement trap and snaked both ways. Now the bathroom sink will also backup at same time, so I ...
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Lowering the basement, water table 2 metre deep
My house is constructed on the side of a slope where the top of the slope is built the road.
I'd like to dig out the basement which is not high enough to stand in mostly, and is just clay. As part ...
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Remove water run off stains on concrete
We had some planters installed in our backyard and the drainage wasn’t really thought through well. So when it rained, some water stains were left on our concrete.
What’s a good way to remove these ...
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What to do about downspout that empties into gangway?
We have a downspout that empties onto our gangway sidewalk. In the winter this becomes an ice rink. One side of the walkway is flanked by our building, the other is a small garden on our neighbor's ...
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Will this work? Shower drain to Flow Well to Storm Drain
My outside shower drain runs 12 feet to a dry well. It backs up after a minute or two after showering. I'm looking at other options and would appreciate any feedback. I have several neighbors with ...
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Egress window well - can't drain to weeping tile because I keep hitting concrete
I am installing an egress window in the basement of a house built in Colorado in 1965 (maybe those details will help?). I have dug the well ~12" below where the bottom of the new window will be. ...
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Could water flowing out of a drain tile pipe cause a foundation leak?
I need advice on a French drain I am building on my property. I have 2 low spots behind the house near my deck that become water puddles when it rains. I am planning to build a 60ft French drain with ...
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Is hand digging a 4 inch trench for PVC drainage pipe behind my gas meter allowed?
I'm doing some work involving drainage in my yard. One of my downspouts comes down right next to my gas meter. In order to direct water where I want I'd like to run the line in between the meters feed ...
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Best way to seal underground bore pipe which is in a pit
I have a closed bore pipe whose width is 6 inches and the pipe goes upto 30 feet deep.
The bore pipe is in a pit whose depth is 6 feet.
I have other drainage pits whose water level is 1 to 2 feet from ...
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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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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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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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water drainage and fence building
I am a new homeowner and with the first summer coming up I am looking to do some renovation outside. The first thing I'd like to do is fence off my back yard so my dogs can roam instead of being ...
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What are purposes of these things that I found buried?
Ive been trying to install some rainwater drainage pipes, so I’ve been digging a lot lately. I’ve uncovered a few things--I hope that they’re either not critical or that I’m not disturbing them.
First,...
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How to determine if tethered sump pump float switch is triggering at the right height?
Yikes! It rained a ton yesterday and my basement flooded. Water soaking the floor. When I looked into the sump pump, it had lots of water in it. I pulled up on the float and it all emptied. As we ...
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Sump Drainage Options
I seem to have an overactive sump. Last year there was an empty lot next to my house. My builder raised my sump because it was running almost constantly. This year I installed sod and a small sump ...
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water pooling in concrete slab
We recently had our concrete patio and driveway completed. We have direct the water flow to the grass but the water drains out really slow and is pooling in the area. how do we solve the issue?
The ...
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Is this a drain-pipe?
I am about to install a water heater in our condo. This is inside the house so I want to be careful about possible leaks. I am putting a drain pan underneath it and need to connect it to a drain ...
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Is this wet venting solution ok?
I am completely redoing my basement bathroom and am wondering if this way of venting the plumbing is ok. From what I've seen, wet venting is the most money and time efficient way to do it, so I would ...
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Tanked balcony drain has cover stuck down with sealant - how to remove?
We live in a leasehold (nearest US equivalent: condo) flat (apartment) at the top of a seven-storey building. Only our floor has real balconies, and the floor of each balcony is effectively the roof ...
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Can a bathtub work without a drain waste or removal shoe?
I guess the drain waste or removal shoe was missing which I saw after trying to change out bathtub drain. Is this a really important part and is it difficult to install?
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I live in NJ. Do I need a p-trap and vent on a washer drain line not going directly to the stack?
Here is my situation. As it sits now, my washer drains directly into the slop sink right next to it.
I live in a split level and I am moving the washer & Dryer up one half level about 6 feet in ...
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No Drainage Around Concrete Basement Floor
This question/comment is in regards to the sump pump question I had yesterday.
While digging the hole to set my new sump pump basin I realized that there was very little if any gravel under the actual ...
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How to redirect water pooling behind skylights
I have a pair of skylights in my roof that leak every time it rains. I've tried silicone and a roofing sealant along the edges.. still leaks. During the last storm heavy rain I went up to check it out ...
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Sealing Off Gravity Pipe from Crawl Space
I currently have a 6" clay pipe for eliminating water from my crawlspace. The pipe exits my crawlspace about a foot from a corner wall, travels 15', and opens to air in a ditch (for now). It is ...
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extra pit next to sump pump
I have a basement with a properly installed sump pump.
I have another hole approximately 1 foot away from the sump hole cut to the same dimensions. There are at least 2 pipes that run into the unused ...
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Pouring drainage channel right next to foundation, how to protect the foundation?
Ugh. How can I arrange details on this concrete pour, to not damage the foundation later?
This is San Francisco Bay area (no freezing). The visible clay pipe is a high volume gravity drain from the ...
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Can I build a concave mortared-stone sidewalk that will also act as a drainage flume?
I recently had a landscaping company install a mortared-stone drainage flume on the interior of a retaining wall at my house:
It looks great and works just as well. It naturally has me wondering ... ...
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outbuilding drain into dry well
Aside from code differences between jurisdictions, is it acceptable to tie an outbuilding floor drain into a dry well drainage system? The outbuilding does not have a water supply, the slope of the ...
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Is soil in an open rock spoon drain a blocker? Think we've got a cowboy job done
Being on a slope, our place has a lot of problems with surface water flooding. We've had a spoon drain installed along our upper boundary to redirect surface water away from the house.
Here's a pic ...
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Changing drainage from washing machine
I have a new build house that has a drainage on the side of the house as shown in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU_-fnvqCOI
I want to change this so that it does not drain on the side ...
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Drainage problem
I built a room to my existing house which created a pitch on the roofline. When it pours rain, the water pools under my window and seeps into my house. I have put up gutters and also a rain ...
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Hooking up drain in dishwasher
I have a 2 yr old Bosch dishwasher that does not drain into the sink drain but straight down into a pipe in the ceiling below. That pipe has the proper P trap etc and worked well for my previous ...
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What is a 'normal' time for water to completely drain out of a shower pan?
I installed a new shower with slimline tray. Now when I am showering there is a fair build up of water in the tray. Nothing major or overflowing, but not quite perfect.
As a gauge, when I stop the ...
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Redirect plugged gutter downspout drain
The rear gutter downspout drain at the back of my house is apparently clogged (or crushed, or overgrown with roots). The previous homeowner said a nearby window well flooded due to the overflow and ...
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Maximum distance between sink basket and floor outlet pipe
I am installing double bowl sink on the benchtop. I am not sure what maximum length is allowed between trap below the sink and pipe outlet on the floor?
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Can foam jacking restore slope to my front stoop?
The stoop in the front door inclines towards the house and guides the water into the crawlspace. The stoop itself is outside the foundation wall of the house and is not fixed to it. The lower part of ...
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Imrpove drainage
We have a negetive slope driveway, it has a dry well right in front of the garage door with a big drain cover, every time it rains heavily, water flows into garage, due to unevenness of the floor, ...
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Cinder block foundation dissolving from water
I discovered that water seems to be dissolving the cinder blocks in one corner of the addition we had put on the house back in 2005. Although I haven't excavated it yet, I can see at least 2 cinder ...
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How thick does the impermeable layer need to be when grading a yard?
I'm grading my yard and have found a deep layer of sand (at least 2 ft) extending out about 10ft. Perhaps the sub base for a patio? I understand I need an impermeable layer to ensure rain runs away ...
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3inch vs 4inch PVC drain for a bathroom?
3inch or 4inch PVC for my bathroom?
During a remodel of my bathroom we had the old 4inch cast iron drain (vent was also 4 inches) removed.
It’s just a single bathroom with 1 toilet 1 sink and 1 shower/...
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Water draining below sump pump drain pipe?
I live in 6 year old home and I noticed today after rain, that the sewer backflow preventer located in basement floor is full of water!
Basement floor slab is Bone dry but potentially there is water ...
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