Which drainage pipe?

[LBrown59]

1*I have heard that the black corrugated pipe in the roll is bad to clog and once clogged cannot be cleaned out .

2*I have heard that the solid PVC drainage pipe is not as bad to clog up and can be cleaned out.
3*What are you guys experiences with the 2 different kinds of pipe? .

1*I had a black corrugated pipe drain about 150' long that really got cloged up bad with leaves.
You can't clean it out because the rotor rooter etc.will tear the thin side walls of it up.

2*This is true.
Here is what I do:
I install one of these

on the inflow end of either type pipe i'm using .
I have never had a pipe clog with one of these screens on it.
You can't buy one of these so I make them my self for the 4 and six inch pipe.
Much easier to clean this few inch long screen that isn't buried than it is to clean dozens of feet of pipe that's buried under ground.

3*Hope this helps out.

 

[LBrown59]

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1*One thing I will fill the trench to the top with the rock and not cover it with dirt.

1*I saw a guy make this oops last summer .
He dug a trench from ground level clear down to the footer an installed 4'' drainage pipe and then filled it with gravel clear to the top.
He just dug a moat along the house and made sure it would always have a supply of water.
I can't see how this would ever keep water out of a craw space or the floor of a basement.

 

[Lineman North Florida]

1*I had a black corrugated pipe drain about 150' long that really got cloged up bad with leaves.
You can't clean it out because the rotor rooter etc.will tear the thin side walls of it up.

2*This is true.
Here is what I do:
I install one of these

on the inflow end of either type pipe i'm using .
I have never had a pipe clog with one of these screens on it.
You can't buy one of these so I make them my self for the 4 and six inch pipe.
Much easier to clean this few inch long screen that isn't buried than it is to clean dozens of feet of pipe that's buried under ground.

3*Hope this helps out.

LB that is a good idea of that homemade screen filter, in all the things I've read about these drains I have not seen where anyone else has done that. Maybe you should have put a patent on it. Thank's for the advice.

 

[JB4310]

1*I saw a guy make this oops last summer .
He dug a trench from ground level clear down to the footer an installed 4'' drainage pipe and then filled it with gravel clear to the top.
He just dug a moat along the house and made sure it would always have a supply of water.
I can't see how this would ever keep water out of a craw space or the floor of a basement.

It is an extreme approach, but it would keep water out of the basement or crawl space, or anywhere else that's higher than the pipe.
Having the aggregate all the way to the surface would have the added benefit of totally relieving hydrostatic pressure on the foundation walls. So as long as that pipe was lower than the inside floor and had a reliable discharge point, you would be pretty much guaranteed a dry basement.
There are geotextiles that would accomplish the same benefit though without all that stone trap.

It would, depending on the topography, act as a huge water catchment area, and if the discharge pipe ever became blocked you would have more problems than if there were no drainage system in place at all.
Another thing, you never want to try and control the amount of water from a system like that by bringing it inside to a sump pump. I've seen that before, a real nightmare with multi pumps pumping non stop during a storm event.

Any type of exterior footing drain system needs to discharge outside to daylight, even tying it into an existing storm drainage system is risky, due to the threat of a back up in that system which would cause a surge on the footing drains.


JB.