Good job fixing this mess. Just reinforces my belief you should never buy a house in a hole.

@tonyalston4838

3 жыл бұрын

I was gunna buy a house at the bottom of a big ditch... this changed my mind

@masonlynch1793

3 жыл бұрын

I live in a house in a reversed hole.

@musicmantham

3 жыл бұрын

I actually don't understand how this is allowed - to build a house at ground level without suitable grading around it

It’s good to see people doing this type of work who actually have equipment and care about using the right type of pipe.

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! My reasoning is that the expensive difficult part is digging the trench and installing the pipe. It's an easy decision to throw the correct pipe into your trench before covering it up. Otherwise, you may be digging it all back out again! Just use the best pipe you can. Easy.

@eddyvideostar

3 жыл бұрын

Professor: Possibly procuring perturbation for the purchasing ambitious DIY homeowner.

@MrRickoscar

3 жыл бұрын

@@GCFD Exactly you get what you pay for.

@edwardgarrison2377

2 жыл бұрын

So what is the right pipe because it's definitely not pvc

Good job putting holes in the bucket. This will also help prevent it from wanting to rise up!

@GCFD

2 жыл бұрын

👍👍

You should do a video about what to look out for when buying a house.

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

I have thought about that!

Very satisfying to see that water flowing out of the curb!

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

Haha, that's my favorite part. "That water is no longer a problem."

Proper site grading at the beginning of the construction phase would have prevented most of this issue. This was the fault of either the architect, builder, or the inspector. Also, it rains hard enough in Texas to outrun that pump.

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

Yea that house was flawed to begin with. Luckily the pumps have been working very well and the homeowner has been very happy. She texts me every time it rains saying how well they work. She also wants us to install a couple more in other areas so that video may be coming...

@scottwhitley3392

3 жыл бұрын

Hmm they look like 2m3 per hour pumps. There would need to be 8.8 gallons a minute coming in before it gets over powered.

@Rick-tb4so

3 жыл бұрын

Its all about cost..

@knightdaleknights44

3 жыл бұрын

Architects typically don't do site grading design (specifically water runoff), that would be a civil engineer. Either way, the plans got approved with proper grading. This is the fault of the contractor who performed site construction.

@TheTinkle1

3 жыл бұрын

@@scottwhitley3392 the way her yard is designed it would bring triple that amount all the water is draining into those spots

That curb hole was beautiful. 😀

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

Haha, thank you!

@arthurstreet2811

3 жыл бұрын

@@GCFD when drilling those through the curb, do you need any kind of easement from the city or county?

great video on how poor some places can be built and great install. For future less spinny/zoomie shots and more slow panning or stationary shots. It will really help the watch-ability of your content

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your feedback. The channel has recently grown and I've been trying to increase my production quality. Check out some of my recent videos and tell me what you think! Thanks!

Neat install. Hopefully that will make a massive difference

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

Yes it has and the homeowners are extremely happy. Tough situation but we provided a good solution.

Love the trim out securing the cord. Most guys on KZread just leave it flopping for mowers and weed eaters and claim ”someone else will fix that”. I laughed when you talked about the “corrugated pipe to nowhere” that was put in just for show! I see those every day and we follow behind and fix them. It’s not magic; it’s gravity.

@GCFD

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Alan!

Here in germany it isn't even allowed to discharge water on the street. You either have to collect it on your plot as for rainwater usage or let it run into the sewer -and pay for it. But the pipe and pumps seem pretty small. But I mean, if it works, it works!

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for commenting Jonathan!

@yourfacelookslikebut

3 жыл бұрын

I think its common for it to be illegal to drain into the city streets. Tossing the bucket downstream.

@peterhandelson1193

3 жыл бұрын

I'm in the US, in my city any discharge near the street is forbidden, it must stay on the property and run into a vegetation area.

Got lucky with that hole in the front. Nice job, thanks for posting

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching! - Shawn

Love these videos. Find myself amazed at how different things are between the states and the UK though. Over here you absolutely cannot discharge private drainage into the highway. I’m also amazed at how poor the developments are in the US, it’s like the developers don’t even think about drainage!? I guess it’s easy money for you guys though!

@griffgoldstein6378

2 жыл бұрын

They don't. When you grease enough palms you don't need to.

@mangos2888

Жыл бұрын

That's exactly it! Some areas have more rules/ regulations but then of course the contractors complain that they can't build anything at a reasonable price....but then nothing gets cheaper when you remove regulations either so ......who's lying?

@mangos2888

Жыл бұрын

​@baretta369 doubt it.

@Richardryan84

Жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same , can you imagine the neighbours complaining about all that muddy water draining on the the road

As someone who has had to endure soggy yards, and seen the destruction standing water over time can do. I enjoy the HELL out of these vids.

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Charles!

@HardHeadMilitary

3 жыл бұрын

Id like to some some videos on pump specs, and wire up to making them operational. Connections to the pump ect

There are some really cool tools at work in this video. Awesome stuff!

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

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Whoever is assigned parking space #60 isn't going to be very happy! 😂

A TON of this is caused by the planning dept during the permitting process allowing zero to low flow areas around the construction site.

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

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THIS WAS JUST BEAUTIFUL I LEARNED A LOT THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Excellent video and great detail!

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Thanks for watching!

Wow!!! I’ve been in business over 15 years and am always looking to learn something new. This is definitely a learning experience. I have a newer customer that has major water issues and am literally putting a proposal together trying to figure out where to take the water besides letting it sit underground in drain basins or French drains. I am definitely going to use this as one of the options. I’ve never done or thought of anything like this but like all things we will figure it out and I am saving this video as a reference. My team and I were scratching our heads on where and how to take the water once we captured it. Thanks for the great video!

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you found it useful! I hear from this homeowner all the time about how well things are working. Pumping is always a last resort but can give great results.

@markrepovich2148

3 жыл бұрын

Crazy how my KZread algorithm kicked this out for me , as well. Same type of project 02/20/2021

@Goodvibes-Adventures

Жыл бұрын

I've also considered and looked into ...Dry wells that are 4'x4' and poly units that have a domed top and the bottom of the hole gets gravel and on the sides between the tank and sides gravel and lines can be sent to it ...And then as it fills you can have either gravity lines or a sump pump in a location sending water away ..But some of the water in the tank will naturally be leeched into the soil ..Great if you have a sloped area pitched down away from the property...And then if you have a sump pump it won't be overwhelmed...✨

Another example of sub-par building site prep...but it keeps u guys in business!

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

I've seen a couple this week that I just can't do anything with. One customer said his backyard is so wet it's a sea of tadpoles all summer long.

Those core saws are awesome

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

We used a 4.5" on yesterday's job. Cuts like butter!

Always love your videos, even at advanced age, I love learning about things like this. Do you catch any flack about where you out your pipes and bitching about the parking space taking all that water? Share a recent project I had done. Generator began putting carbon monoxide in our house so moved it 100 feet into the woods. Has a huge area of expensive rock side walks and landscaping. Opted for underground gas and electric lines. These were in plastic pipes that come in rolls. Guy was setting up his rig and I gave him a bit of time and went out to see how he does it. He was finished! No damage to yard. Amazing work from you and him.

Perfect place for a pond.

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

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We'll done. Great video! The core bit penetration was very satisfying lol.

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Nice work 🤙🏽

who ever parks there is going to hate this.... hopefully its a warm climate area and it wont be throwing out water all winter long..

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

Yes this is NC.

@johnv9854

3 жыл бұрын

@@GCFD reason I mention it is because our old townhouse community I lived in was like this and it became a horrible icy mess most winters.

Good work guys 👍

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Thanks for watching!

That concrete core drill!!!! Wow!!

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

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increadibly satsfying video. please consider an ASMR style draining video!!

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

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It looks like this was at some sort of condo complex, or at least a development with a shared parking lot and shared roof lines. I am amazed that they allowed the water to go into the parking area, alot of times those folks don't like people getting water into the parking areas.

@GCFD

2 жыл бұрын

Luckily the HOA owns the parking lot too and gave us permission. They knew that unit shouldn't have been built there.

Zoeller M98 sump? Thank you for demonstrating your awesome work. “Apple Drains” needs to take a tutorial from you!!

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I've watched a lot of Chuck with apple drains' videos.

Man, the soil you guys have out there is just ridiculous. So much clay in it. No wonder you so much steady work out there.

@GCFD

2 жыл бұрын

👍 Clay makes my day

I envy this type of drainage system. I live near the ocean and that hole would be full of water from the time it was dug until the planet earth blows up :(

@1personalt

3 жыл бұрын

Yup.. I have a house on LBI in NJ and when they dig pools they run some crazy pump with intakes in a circle around the pool for two weeks before they try to put the pool in.. water just comes in and in

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

I love the ocean. Scuba diver here

I would definitely want gutter guards installed on a system like that.

@yupp9393

3 жыл бұрын

I assume it’s not a big deal if there’s no big trees over the house.

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

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Great vid!

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

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I rarely find they give you enough flex on the pumps in the U.K. You can always extend, but still a minor annoyance. Your sparky will be very happy having such a large pipe to work with 👍🏼

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

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That basin will be overwhelmed in 30 minutes of heavy rain.

@GCFD

2 жыл бұрын

I have kept in touch with this homeowner and she has reported the basin occasionally getting overwhelmed but the pumps catch back up within several minutes. She's still thrilled.

This is one of those cases where the Algorithm is doing some good lol. No coincidence this is in my recommended feed. I'm actually local to you (Davidson County) and we are in desperate need of some drainage work. I'll be contacting y'all soon!

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds good! - Shawn

@jonboy545

3 жыл бұрын

@@GCFD Thanks for the reply Shawn, I called this morning and left a message, hope to hear back soon. If you prefer messenger or something else let me know.

@travishanks7295

2 жыл бұрын

The problem is the hills. Don't put irrigation in a hilly backyard. There is nowhere for the water to go.

Bought a house in Meridian, ID that had a sump pump right next to the foundation (crawl space) but it was in a black pipe about 6' down. It kicked on once or twice a day in the summer. My house was about 60' from a canal so I think the original owner had water under the house and that was his solution. No idea but it worked.

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

Yea those pumps do work well if you can't get the water away.

Ok you guys are really good at what you do 10 out of 10. Only thing that gives me an itch is the mess of dirt you left behind. I’m A non medicated OCD Mr. perfect and that makes talk to myself.

Besides enjoying your channel I also watch Penetrator ‐ a plumber in Brisbane, Australia who specializes in clogged drains - storm and sanitary. The standard for underground stormwater is thin wall PVC. He is kept busy with tree root invasions!!!

Great job.

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Great project

@GCFD

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Alan!

Gate City is a seriously dangerous hood in Birmingham Alabama. It’s so dangerous that when they connected I-459 to I-20, they built a really long elevated road way that allows to travel above Gate City, rather than through Gate City.

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

Interesting. thanks for sharing. Gate City is Greensboro's nickname.

Water is fun

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

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Those builders found the bottom of a lakebed for their next development. 😆. I’m surprised the HOA let you dig holes. 😬

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

The power company agreed to let this homeowner tie the pumps into their power! We will be back there soon to install two more pumps.

Do you need any permission or permits to core the curb for drainage to the street? I need to run my sump discharge to a nearby curb. Thanks!

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

Our municipality doesn't care but many do care. Check with yours to be sure.

Nothing beats a little local knowledge. I live in a small village, we moved here 35 years ago. On the corner of our lane is a nice house. Since we’ve been here there has been about 7-8 owners. The turnover is due to the damp. When I mentioned to a neighbour that no one ever stayed long they told me it was built over the village pond. Some developer thought he’d make some money and all those poor people are still paying the price!

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

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I did this on a much larger scale. 3’ dia 4’ long concrete basins with 3” pumps. Tied into an existing 8” storm line. The installed a 2800 gal concrete tank and ran the storm line through it with an emergency over flow designed to guarantee the lower level of the complex stayed dry. The were 2 more 3” pumps at different levels that pumped to the curb in that tank. All designed by an engineer.

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

That sounds like a heck of a system!

@mitchjones2821

3 жыл бұрын

@@GCFD it is something let me tell you! All set into motion by one downpour about 12 years ago. Lower level is 5’ below grade and every apt has a concrete bump out porch. Each one had a 3” pipe tee’d directly into that 8” storm line with lots of fall. The downspouts also tie into it!!! Big no-no! So I said why not just pipe the downspouts separately? But I’m no engineer, like the one who charged more to design the system than my labor was to install it!!🤦‍♂️

Great Video! Marcos pizza for lunch is the real deal!

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watchig!

So easy with no frost concerns.

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

We are lucky here in NC.

Great video gives me ideas for my own place. Question; would the downpipe at the gutter level not have provided enough fall to the street if the whole piping sections were glued together? The water could sit in the pipe when not raining.

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

Interesting question! It would take a ton of head pressure to push the water uphill to the street, so I don't think it would work. Any debris that got in there would never be able to be pushed out out, which could clog the system and make it even harder to flow. I usually want a quarter bubble at least of fall, otherwise we pump.

Probably could run a heat tape in the sump basin that runs off a thermostat, if it ever got below freezing it would prevent the pump from locking up. We use them in our eves troughs up here in the north.

lmao he said get your boats ready

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

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Nice!!!!

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

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That water's gonna be great when you have freezing conditions - not sure of your climate but you're gonna have a parking lot you can sublet out to the local hockey league. . ,.

Not sure how your channel was recommended to me but I'm glad it was - I've been binge watching your videos for a day now. :D I was wondering why you would not want to use the perforated basin if it was a crawl space instead of a slab?

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

The perforated basin lets the water sit at a lower level in the ground. That places it closer to the level of the crawl space, so I would choose a solid basin in that case. Great question Justin! Thanks for watching!

@edwardgarrison2377

2 жыл бұрын

You need to unrecommend that channel and watch the french drain man channel. You have been fooled by gateway foundation trust me.

@retired0307

2 жыл бұрын

@@edwardgarrison2377 One man's opinion!!!

That’s impressive

@GCFD

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

I want that pipe cutter. That's what I want!

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

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Living up North I have a 1 1/2" discharge line from a sump pump running to the street and it runs more in the winter than summer. There is a lot of ice in the street because of it..

@scottwhitley3392

3 жыл бұрын

I was think that, the neighbours won’t be too happy about 🤣

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

Luckily we don't get much ice here. If they even call for low temperatures everything shuts down the night before.

Excellent! Keep up the good work and keep the videos coming! Can you make a video on how to charge for this kind of Job? Thank you.

@GCFD

2 жыл бұрын

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The float on the sump pump will be the 1st thing to fail. Also, what happens when the power goes out in a thunderstorm? Gravity drainage can't fail under any circumstances, but sometimes you do need a pump. good work!

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

👍👍

13:50 get your boat ready!

@GCFD

2 жыл бұрын

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Nice job, except, I would have put a rubber cap on the end of the PVC pipe where the power cord comes through. Just cut an X in the rubber cap, push the power cord plug through the X and push the rubber cap on to the end of the PVC pipe. Prevents small animals from nesting in the PVC pipe.

@GCFD

2 жыл бұрын

Great idea Johnny

Not sure where this is located. If it is someplace that has cold winters and freezes, that check valve might cause a problem if the pipe slopes toward the basin. The water will remain in the pipe and when the weather gets cold enough, will freeze and break the pipe. This would not be a problem in warmer climates though. Great job though.

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

We're in NC and luckily we don't have to worry about freezing.

5:20 is the noise I hear when my mother in law talks.

@GCFD

2 жыл бұрын

👍👍 Haha john

My pump is going to sit below the street curb, so my pipe will be slanted upwards. Since theres a checkvalve near the pump, I'm worried there will be standing water in the pipe near the pump. It might freeze in the winter. How to ensure that there's no standing water in the pipes?

@GCFD

2 жыл бұрын

You might have to turn your pump off in the winter and drain the line down. This was the same way but we don't have much for freezing temps here.

I wonder about the neighbours response to this excellent drainage installation . The rear of the side property has more of a water buildup since the berm prevents free , rapid drainage , and the property to the rear is going to drown in the extra water that the berm directs their way . As well , does the fence line drain slow the side properties drainage , and cause more water buildup there ? I look at these HOA controversies and rules and just wonder if there will be difficulties with adjoining properties . Loved the video, very informative .

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Linda!

@cliffpalermo

3 жыл бұрын

I think the neighbors should be paying electric bill all the water from the surrounding properties in the ground is going to be lifted by this homeowners pumps

Love the hat bud!

Nice video! I've been looking at doing a similar project at my house for several years. Couldn't figure out how I was going to get over the curb until I watched your video. Is there a permit requirement to drill through the curb?

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

Call you city. Here, every time I call they never care, so I don't call very often anymore.

@edwardgarrison2377

2 жыл бұрын

No

Great job...have you ever had neighbors complain about the water discharging into the street?

@hano5277

3 жыл бұрын

I would be pissed

@nephew455

3 жыл бұрын

@@hano5277 why?

@tomalva4640

3 жыл бұрын

They should’ve tried tapping into a fresh water drain so that water wouldn’t just be all over the street....

@brandons2411

3 жыл бұрын

@@tomalva4640 water goes in the street when it rains so 🤷‍♂️

@iaminyouout1813

3 жыл бұрын

If it's a cold climate could be disastrous in winter frozen over

Would that pump be strong enough to send the water up a 3-4 foot elevation change to the curb?

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

Yes. That's called Head Pressure and each pump has a flow curve for different amounts of head.

I may have drank water from a sump outlet as a kid because I was riding my bike a bit far from home and was hot af. It was clear and tasted fine. Also, I didn't die.

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

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Your company could have improved my happiness over the last 60 years. Only thing is your reliance on sump pumps and electricity would come up short around here.

That’s one neat job guys 👌🏻 Besides the pumps being able to handle a level of solids through them, would it add extra sustainability to the solution to run the gutter pipes just into the gravel rather than into the sump basin, just as an extra layer of filtration, or not really?

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

Great question! My thought it is have the most unimpeded flow from the gutters to the sump basin. This lets any leaves or debris flow directly into the basin and get pumped out by the pumps.

Question on the pump. If the pump isn't around an outlet to plug in do you hardwire it or hook up an extension cord to reach the outlet ???

Why wouldn’t you core the curb from the lawn side so the angle of the core matches the angle of the pipe?

@GCFD

2 жыл бұрын

Because we were pumping the water under pressure.

Would it be worth it to place a coupler inside the black bucket onto the pipe then cut off all but 3/4 of an inch to act as a piece to keep the pipe from sliding back out of the bucket

Looks like a handy man patch job rather than a well engineered solution.

Am I crazy? Your outflow and your inflow pipes seem to be the same height. If you have good fall on both then what's the point of the pump?

@GCFD

2 жыл бұрын

This house was sitting at a considerable low point and we had to pump the water about 6 feet to the curb.

Great work, but you are the solution to a problem the designers should have taken into account, water flows down....

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

Yes I agree. That's a terrible place to build.

Nice pump solution but I'm a bit amazed that the water from the outfalls spreads all over the street as if there is no camber on it to keep rainwater in the street-edge gutters. Are there no street drains either? Also I've never before seen downpipes taking water from the roof and directing it straight into the soil around the foundations - seems to be asking for cellar flooding, subsidence or rotting joist ends if there are suspended wooden floors. Maybe in a wetter climate (England) local practice anticipates and therefore caters in advance for problems such as these. Not that we do building any better - plenty of houses are still being built on flood plains and are bought by owners who are surprised to find themselves knee-deep in floodwater after a once in a century storm that because of climate change now occurs once a decade.

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

The drain is on the other (downhill) side of the parking lot so the water that gets pumped out sheets across the pavement. This was on a slab so no crawl or cellar to worry about here. Great comment!

@philtucker1224

3 жыл бұрын

In the UK our code doesn’t permit water to be pumped into the street, (it has to be piped straight into a suitable drain.)

@scottsatterthwaite4073

2 жыл бұрын

@@philtucker1224 True of many places in the U.S. too. Runoff water must be diverted to either a storm sewer or retention pond.

We have weeping tiles. So any water in the yard or from the roof gets drained far away

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

Nice!

Awesome video!! Gate City from G’boro? Raleigh here!!

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

Yess!

@Highstranger951

3 жыл бұрын

Greenville here! With the rain we have been getting lately, I guarantee both pumps have been working overtime.

One thing I think it would of needed was a screen or some type of flap on the end of the drains for that any small rodent won’t get stuck on there and clog it ..

@zpbonjour

3 жыл бұрын

Or a trap like you'd see under a sink.

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

The pump would blow out any debris (or rodents) that might have gotten in there.

@lawrencematos7493

3 жыл бұрын

@@GCFD ok thanks ..

Will this work in colder climates / winter ? We have a lot of freeze thaw cycles

Great videos. Question - why would you use a non-perforated basin if there was a crawlspace, but a perforated basin if there's a slab?

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

Perforated basins let the water settle deeper in the ground. So if you have a crawl, that water would be deeper in the ground. The non-perf basins keep the water in the basin better. Also If you have point water sources, non perf; non-point water sources, perf.

@HughButlerTallahassee

3 жыл бұрын

@@GCFD Wouldn't the presence of the pump tend to pull down the local water level with a perfed basin? Kind of like a french drain?

The house you are at. The water drains nowhere. Now you have it drain to the street. Good. But what if you have it all pool at the curb because of the building of the development and the water doesn't have the proper drain. Will you go further to the street?

Great video. Are you guys worried at all about backflow from the basin if the power goes out/ pumps fails?

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

There's a check valve in the discharge line. If the power goes out we figured it won't be any more water than was there before we put in the pumps. What do you think?

@wesjohnson9147

3 жыл бұрын

@@GCFD My concern would be if you lose power (or gfci trips) you are now discharging the downspouts at the foundation and there could be leakage into the crawl, or damage to the siding over time. Similarly if/when the pumps burn out and the homeowner doesn't notice. One idea may be to run an overflow pipe from the basin, terminating at a pop up emitter so at least if the above happens you get water away from the house. But of course this is really contingent on how much of a basin the house is in.

That trenching machine looks handy. How long did you rent that type of machine before purchasing? Great work as always! Watching from 🇨🇦

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

Hey Josh - I've never rented any equipment... I found that track trencher online and knew it was the right one. I do wish I had gotten the bigger one with electric start, but oh well.

Is the use of pressure pipe/vs drainpipe for the added rigidity/ break resistance?

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

Pressure pipe is stronger like you said, and pressure fittings have much more gluing surface. We use them because they're better and that's how we roll.

Your video of the long yard that you used the rock channel in, looks like what I need. My question is how deep does the water drain into. I have a property in Wisconsin that has had 2-3 ft of water all the way around coming in on 2 sides so I would have to get 2 channels done. When it drys enough to get in there is there a way for me and my buddy to rent a front end loader and do it our self. All the water is going down and sitting all the way around my trailer from 2 sides. Need advice. Great video though just need a little more explanation of where or how you get all the water to a deep basin.

@jareddory2155

3 жыл бұрын

Use socked corroguated perforated drainage pipe if your looking to route water to a deeper basin, and it will help bring it from further away, resulting in a larger dry area. My question is can tour pump keep up, or at least evacuate it in a timely fashion. Would suck to burn up a pump running continuously and having to get a diver in to replace it.

@JRsVsO

3 жыл бұрын

@@jareddory2155 I don't even know how I'm gonna get the yard dry enough to put in a french drain with a pump or 2 because the water just won't go down to the ground.

@jareddory2155

3 жыл бұрын

@@JRsVsO when it warms up (if that’s a problem in tour area) Determine where you want your pit, dig a foot or so (as much as you can) and insert a pump with a hose leading elsewhere (drain) Continue pumping until dry and digging and pumping u til you achieve depth you need and it should be reletively dry in the area to do the rest of the work. May take a month or more depending on how much clay is in your soil do it could retain water more, if you have sandy soil you will be able to move the water faster, it will drain from more of the yard. You will be essentially lowering your water table in your yard. Recommend staring in low area.

What model pump is this? Also curious about the depth of the components, pvc pipe, pump...etc. do none of these need to be below the frost line to prevent freezing in the winter?

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

These are Zoeller Pumps M98 and M53. If you have freezing temps you would want to keep that in mind.

In the UK it is against building regulations to drain water from your property into the street. There was an influx of people digging up the front garden and turning it into concrete driveways. Many places now flood due to this so you have to contain the water in the land. Most people use permeable style driveways or burry a soak away into the ground.

@phonedave

3 жыл бұрын

Its against the law in a lot of places in the US too. Same thing here, all water on our property has to stay on property and percolate into the ground. It prevents flood and recharges the wells.

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

We have a lot of clay here and lots of surface water too. The streets all drain to creeks here.

@hunnersahings7375

3 жыл бұрын

It must be rewarding to see the water flowing out and know that what you have done has solved solved problem

@phonedave

3 жыл бұрын

@@GCFD so do we. Storm drains here drain to the rivers too. When you dump rainwater into the street, then two things happen- the rivers flood and our wells go dry. All property here has lot limits on the amount of imperiable surface. If you exceed it, the surface water must be impounded and allowed to percolate into the ground. With dry wells and other impoundment structures there is no need to discharge into the street.

During heavy rain storms can the water run from the street back into the sump?

@jesusjaime21

3 жыл бұрын

No in the video he stated pump has a check valve, that only lets water flow in one direction.

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

Great question Rick! This outfall is really high up so that's not a concern in this instance.

Always checkcwere water is going around the house your planning on buying people

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

No one ever thinks of drainage issues..

I would be adding and underground holding tank to capture the rain water off the roof to use for watering the garden instead of just sending it to the drain system. Of course send the overflow to the drain system, but it would help reduce water Bill's and water wastage.

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

We don't collect too much rainwater here in NC. we had 50" of rain last year. lol

Am confused, does this mean you've got to pay electric for the pump to dump water that isn't your fault? Am in the UK and drain water just comes down the pipes in the the drains.. over years and years this will cost abit to run?

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, they have to pay electric and maintenance on the pumps. This is a last resort effort. Even with these issues the results have been very good so far. The homeowners are very happy.

@bigbassmaniac

3 жыл бұрын

The pump will only run when needed. Also the cost of electricity even over years would still be cheaper than having to have the foundation redone with a building on it.

I’m not sure where y’all are located, but here in Texas electrical underground runs must be dug down 18” (per code). But I think your sump system is awesome!

@GCFD

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Thanks for watching John!