gutter drain pipe underground install

[shoot-straight]

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.

 

[kniffin50]

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.

 

[ironpony]

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.