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Today on "My Life On the Deck" I'm going to take care of a bit of an
irrigation problem we have in the backyard. It's all because of this drain.
Right now the water is all draining out into our backyard, and back here it
gets very muddy and mucky and very mossy.
The first thing I'm going to do is take out some of this concrete so then I
can run the pipe down into the ground. Then the plan is to actually run a
big section of tube down here and get the water away from the house.
This is the tool I picked up today, just renting from Home Depot. It's a
Bosch hammer. So much for the Hilti gun I'd used in the past. All I'm going
to do is just break up this section of concrete, right here, and then be
able to run the pipe.
The first thing to do is put the bit in. What you're going to do is you're
going to pull this collar back and then insert your bit. You want to make
sure it's in all the way. This one little groove, here, has to fit in the
right spot, so twist in there. Now it's in properly. That's all you need to
do for the bit.
Then, for the handle, you put it to where you want it and you tighten it
down. Then you're good to start hammering.
As you can see here, we removed the first section. Yea! So, a bit more to
go, but looking good. There's our hole, and there's Casper. Once we got
that one piece out, the rest came quite quickly. We used a crow bar and
that other big bar too.
The concrete's all gone now, and I actually started digging the trench for
the tubing. The first four or five feet will be solid tubing. Then we're
going to use a perforated, also called the big-O. That will basically just
take the water away from the house and then it will drain out.
This is part of the existing downspout, as you can see, right here. I'm
just going to actually hacksaw that part off that's curved and then just
run it straight into the big-O and then into the trench. Actually, I took
off this bracket right here. As you can see, instead of hacksawing through
it, I was just able to pull off this piece there. I have another adaptor I
can hook in, like that, and then that should plug into the big-O. As you
can see, that's a perfect fit. It fits right on there. Then it's got this
flexible part so I can actually guide it right into the big-O tube. We've
secured that bracket now, and it looks like it all belongs.
There we are getting the two inch round rock that we're going to use for
our drainage. Here is the loaded trailer with the rock It's about one to
two inch drain rock. We're also hosing it off first, before we take it to
the backyard to put it into the trench.
Here is our drain with about two inches right now of this drain rock.
Here's the big-O in the trench. As you can see, it's also wrapped with
landscape fabric. What this does is just ensures that no dirt or anything
gets inside the pipe to clog up the holes. It's actually pretty important
to do this. Sometimes you get a sleeve. We just wrapped it with landscape
fabric and then put some duct tape to hold it in place.
This is where the big-O actually connects into the downspout. We run just
about six to eight feet solid. Right about there, at that corner, is where
we put in the perforated. Then it's perforated all along here.
A couple of days ago, we completed the last two parts of our project on how
to install a drainage pipe. As you can see, we've covered the trench with
topsoil. We've also finished the sidewalk with exposed aggregate.
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