Drainage HDPE/ Corrugated Pipe

[Judson50]

I have a place off my walk out basement, where water collects into a large puddle. about 2in and 6ft wide.

I spoke to a friend at church (who is a farmer) who stated all I need is HDPE/ Corrugated Pipe and a catch basis. Just bury the pipe and run our to my ditch in my back yard.

When I began to look into this, I noticed piping with a sock and/or people at the local menards telling me I needs rock under and above the pipe.

So I went and told my farmer at friend this and he told me they are just trying to sell more product. He then told me he's farmed for over 50 years, never put a sock nor surrounded pipe with rock - he just burried the pipe. I explained to him all the concerns the guys at menards told me about pipe bursting due to being frozen in winter and it getting. Clogged.

He told me him and all his farmer friends (I'm in Indiana) never use rock or a sock and their farms don't flood. He said if the pipe empties into a ditch, I'll be fine.

So what are your thoughts?



EDIT: I should add, I have no water seeping into the house, I just want this one part of my yard and my walk out porch (which is concrete) to not "hold" water and just move it elsewhere. Let me know if I need to clarify anything else.

 

[andrehoude123]

A big-O is what we call it up here dig a shallow trench put about a foot of 3/4 clear and about an other foot over it then a geo textile sheet over top then top soil and seed and now you have a wet spots that will always be dry and your pipe goes into a hole filled up with rocks or out into a ditch the sock on the pipe prevents dirt from getting into it makes it last much longer The other way will work but for how long

 

[Judson50]

I must apologize. Are you saying I need the rock and sock? Or can I just bury the pipe out to the ditch?

I truly apologize I didn't understand your post.

Or can I get a sock sound the pipe and bury it without rock?

 

[Code54]

The socks "goal" is to keep the mud and dirt from slowly filling the pipe. I wrapped some before and they are working great years later. Maybe it would have worked for a while without the wrap but for the little added cost figured it was worth it to not have to do it again.

 

[andrehoude123]

I must apologize. Are you saying I need the rock and sock? Or can I just bury the pipe out to the ditch? I truly apologize I didn't understand your post. Or can I get a sock sound the pipe and bury it without rock?

Depends how you want to do it....if you want to do it the right way with the most drainage. Sock and rock and that same sock material over the rock so the dirt does not go into the rock and stop the drainage....depends the budget Also a farmer does a lot of this and entire fields can not do this all these steps but in home use that is how we do it

 

[Judson50]

Depends how you want to do it....if you want to do it the right way with the most drainage. Sock and rock and that same sock material over the rock so the dirt does not go into the rock and stop the drainage....depends the budget Also a farmer does a lot of this and entire fields can not do this all these steps but in home use that is how we do it

So then why can a farmer do just the pipe with no issues and a homeowner needs rock, sock ect?

I guess I just don't understand what's the difference?

 

[Judson50]

The socks "goal" is to keep the mud and dirt from slowly filling the pipe. I wrapped some before and they are working great years later. Maybe it would have worked for a while without the wrap but for the little added cost figured it was worth it to not have to do it again.

Did you surround the sock with rock?

 

[Judson50]

As a follow up, I have about 300 softball size limestone rock. Can I put that under the corrugated pipe? Will that work okay instead of all that small rock?

 

[andrehoude123]

All farmers do it with a sock dig a trench and back fill! It will work but the best way is with rock and yes big rocks will work as good or better then small ones the only thing there might be a shift and cause little sink holes in the surface

 

[s219]

If you are just draining from a wet spot to a ditch, then the pipe will be solid. You would not be using perforated pipe that requires some sort of gravel and filter cloth (i.e., a french drain).

How do you plan to collect the water? For that part, you can use a drain box with a grate on top. Then connect the solid pipe to that and run to your ditch.

You could also make a short french drain under the wet spot, with perf pipe, gravel, and filter cloth, and then connect that to the solid pipe to run to the ditch. You should use #57 gravel (or similar size) for that.