gutter drain pipe underground install

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shoot-straight

Minister of Fire
Jan 5, 2012
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Kennedyville, MD
Hey folks. When building our house we were shortsighted in many areas. Including drainage. No issues with water in crawl or anything, but I do have 3 gutters that drain into an area hemmed in between the house and a brick over concrete looping walk to the front door.

I'm thinking of piping them together and running them under the walk then down to a ditch. Of course I don't want to rip up my walk.... Its about 3.5 feet wide with masoned pavers over 4" concrete.

Diy job or pro job? I'd rent a small piece of equipment for digging/trenching of course. Im curious of ways to run pipe under the walk if I did it myself. I see ways with water and such, but most are for little pipe.
 
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If you have a hand saw ,tape measure, 4ft level and a shovel you can do it. I would use 4in.solid pvc pipe and some 90deg. bends maybe some tee connections.Tunnel under side walk from both sides. They make a longer narrow shovel when you backfill pack it in with a 2x4 board.I don't know how cold it gets there, make sure it's deep enough so it won't freeze.
 
Hey folks. When building our house we were shortsighted in many areas. Including drainage. No issues with water in crawl or anything, but I do have 3 gutters that drain into an area hemmed in between the house and a brick over concrete looping walk to the front door.

I'm thinking of piping them together and running them under the walk then down to a ditch. Of course I don't want to rip up my walk.... Its about 3.5 feet wide with masoned pavers over 4" concrete.

Diy job or pro job? I'd rent a small piece of equipment for digging/trenching of course. Im curious of ways to run pipe under the walk if I did it myself. I see ways with water and such, but most are for little pipe.




trench up to sidewalk on both sides. use trenching shovel as above or I would try to drive solid pvc thru the dirt so there is no gap around pipe, then clean out pipe. either way back fill with 56 gravel to eliminate compaction.
 
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