Backyard Drainage Solutions - Catch Basin, swale, PVC Pipe
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- Here we install two catch basins with PVC pipe, create a swale, and spread some soil to help solve backyard flooding and erosion issues.
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Looks like a nice job but disturbingly not including followup rain footage will certainly be discussed in a special appointment with my therapist, good sir.😇🤣
Haha It was either make this video or delete the footage since so much time had passed.
Lol, yes Ryan, WE NEED THE MONEY SHOT... at least get Lynn to run a hose from the drone🤣🤣🤣
Need that follow up rain footage 🫶
Watched the video and no money shot!! My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined. Oh well 🤣
@@GCFDThen do the moral thing and delete the footage. Just kidding! Rain shot or not, always enjoy your content.
Shawn, old man, it is comforting to see a drainage job again. It is also encouraging that PHD’s are getting some work.😊✌️✌️👍🇨🇦🇺🇦
I miss the after-job rain footage, but could get as easily addicted to pre-job rain footage....
I guess this homeowner was well pleased he found you and the team to sort ot his mess.
Finally, some dopamine from a Gate City Foundation Drainage video. Can't wait to see the next one. Amazing job, Shawn.
Lynns drone work is outstanding.
Sometimes guys get all too technical and fixed in their thinking. But a lot of females have that artistic eye for getting the best out of a vista.
If it was left to shawn, it would be a drop shot from on high to eye level.
You are both learning from each other!
I was happy with the help filming too! She did a great job
A hard working young lady.
For sure!
That area where the PVC dumps into is perfect for a garden! 😉
The harley rake is so satisfying.
It is great that you have such a talented team that you can have several jobs going on at one time at the worksite.
In some of the 1970's areas of town where I am at they have fences and the back yards are all sloped like that. The fenceline runs right down the center of the "Neighborhood Swale." Some of the later developments have the same grading, but cinderblock walls run down the center of that swale instead. The give away is where 4 or 5 blocks are missing a course or half course up from the bottom of the side walls between neighbor houses... We get storms rarely here, but when the come, they dump lots of water in a hurry. The swale and cinderblock allows most of it to run off and spreads it out into a bunch of foot or less deep puddles to soak in or evaporate with in a week. It succeeds keeping water AWAY from the house and is supposed to help regenerate the aquifer. It also save the developer and expense on utilities that did not have to be installed to handle a HUGE storm, just big ones.
Friends that live in those areas have used 3 ways to solve the big puddle they get frequently. The build their pool deck using those sono-tube pillars all the way up. They build a basketball or firepit/ barbeque area that can handle water. One decided to put in raised bed gardening, which took 5 years of composting to get the caliche infused soil to PH balance, with septic tank tunnels allowing flow through on the bottoms of the beds.
Thanks for sharing!
Yes it would have been interesting to see the rain footage especially what was going through the neighbor's yard on a heavy rain. I would have been as skeptical as you were about running water on the neighbors property.
My boyhood home had a back yard that was painfully flat except the house behind us, their backyard sloped toward ours. In heavy rainstorms water would stream up at the end of the yard, ie a swale. The end of the next door's yard was an open drainage system. So the swale worked only if there was enough water to fit around the openings Otherwise, it would flow further downhill to the next house with an opening. We were lucky that someone had black walnuts up stream floated down and fell into what I could only believe a rodent hole and it grew. But it was taken down the year it produced fruit.
Good job ear defenders Shaun 😊
As usual really good job done Shaun, and excellent teamwork, a wet video would be good seeing how the system is working 👌👍
Sorry I wasn't able to get the rain footage on this one. After 18 months it was either push out this video or delete the footage.
@GCFD totally understand 👍
Looks great smoothing it out made all the difference, was about to say Surely some dirt or grading will be done behind those basin's instead of leaving it rough, Night & day difference for sure.
Apparently a landscaper did a ton of work bringing in all that soil with barrows and then would never come back to spread it. So I added spreading it to the list of stuff we were going to do. It worked out well!
This sounds like the time to work with the neighbor to keep the discharge in the two drainage pipes and continue the pipes across the neighbor's yard and into their street.
Maybe catch a few of the neighbor's gutters while you're there.
That would be a great way to go!
I just wonder what the neighbor really thinks when it rains. Oh well. Cheers for another interesting project.
The whole area slopes down pretty hard so they are used to it. I wonder as well.
@@GCFDpossibly the neighbour has dealt with the water entering their property by installing corrugated pipe……………….. oh no! No no no, I meant a proper drainage system with PVC and catch basins.
Thanks Shawn. Yeah Buddy……Harley rake
Please keep up the great work!
Thank you!
Great to see rain footage of the problem area before the drains are installed. Nice teamwork on this job (as usual).
Why not pipe the customer channel drain directly into the new pipe instead of that square catch basin?
There was water flowing off the old pool deck at that point and I forgot to mention it. That's also why we concreted the catch basin in place.
@@GCFD That was apparent to me, after watching your videos for so long!
Looks good
Thank you Julie!
Good video. I was apprehensive as well draining water to the neighbors property. I would assume he looked after the water coming onto his property prior to you showing up.
Just once get tacos or burgers for lunch 😂😂😂
Haha! Pizza is just so easy plus they deliver!
Was there a reason why you didn't recommend pumping some or all of that water to the street? It would be great to see a follow-up with it raining!
Hope it all goes well for your customer, all it needs is one new neighbour that isn't happy getting all that water diverted to his property and your customer gets in trouble...
Was there no way to get that water out to the street?
Otherwise great job and nice filming it, as we are used to see from you!
Thx for showing!
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Sink a water tank in the ground and a pump to use that water on the garden or for whatever through a filter, thats what we did in southern Spain and neighbor problem is gone!. Nice video Shawn.
Any chance of seeing the results when it rains - the money shot as they say 😀
Nice work with the draining solution. Homeowner needs to address the water collecting in his retaining wall.
You've got to switch to concrete basins with metal grates when possible. Those plastic grates just get clogged with yard-thatch too easily, though I'm aware concrete-basins triple the cost but the larger intake-slots offer a different level of less-maintenance (to note I wouldn't offer a heavy concrete basin on land that uses the old OSSFs(sewage) b/c the culture around that old technology is way too soggy to warranty any product put in the soil. My State has rules on new OSSFs requiring stormwater-drainage but it's not enforced b/c the county's employees have immunity to suggest we must pay extra to get access to the State's Water-Code(laws on drainage).
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Is that hay or pine needles you spread in the yard?
Nice job Shawn! Do you usually keep a lot of videos lined up just waiting to get rain footage?
What about the house on the other side of the fence? It seems to me they won't be too happy with all the extra water.
The water was flowing to their property and we didn't change that..
. Before was spread out, now concentrated in that one corner.
Wouldn't have you guys anywhere near my house doing work
Those mini bobcat don't have a model with a motorbike seat at least?
haha 👍
We demand rain foooooooooootage!
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Do you have advice about digging over residential water mains in NC? I'm about to do something similar. I plan to call 811 to get it marked and hand dig around it. But I'm still worried about hitting it with the shovel and breaking it.
Whats the straw for?
So you collected the water and drained it into the two basins but no drainage to empty the basins or did I miss that?
Yes the catch basins discharge at the left back corner
Why would you put two big catch basins right next to each other. It doesn’t look good! 20:25
We got 40" of coverage with the two 20" basins. 👍
so this swale needs to be called out
no after footage.
Why are your videos so far apart and in between the last one must have been months ago?
Anthony - these videos are usually over 100 video clips and I'm getting tired. I'm working all the time, plus filming. Then my files sit on the computer and I try to get to them. I have a bunch of videos to make yet and trying to get caught up.
@@GCFDMaybe you could hire a high schooler in the visual arts classes to do your video editing for you.
Why not pump the water to the street? I wouldn't let a homeowner get away with discharging all that water onto a fence line.
Love you americans. Promise
Go an buy a digger man for god's sake
👎🏻 Sadden to watch this video and to not have Rain Footage, you could have put that information in the video description and gave us the option to watch.
Seriously... You want a content warning? Lol
Yes 🤡
When someone gives you “rain footage” on 99% of the videos they produce then that is expected.
I don’t watch the videos for how to dig, lay pipe and sprinkle grass seed I watch it for the results. Sean’s a big boy he can handle it himself, it’s time to come up from the basement and mommy will make you some macaroni and cheese.
A bit of weed we know.
I feel your concern about dumping the property water onto the neighbors. Although it's been doing that for a long time it would have been great to come up with a solution where the water goes to the road. Just my 2 cents : )
I would have liked that too! There was concrete from the back to the front so it wasn't very feasible to pump it to the street.
I'm like you. I'd have been worried about the water going into the neighbors in the back, but if they're okay with it, what do you do? It turned out all right 👍👍🙂🇨🇦
I guess the water was already ending up on the neighbor so nothing changed there.
Rain footage is nice but not necessary. You can always make a quick update video if you ever get it in the future
I love swales!! They can be a really good improvement in water flow issues, and this one your team did is GREAT!! Also enjoy the drone work by Lynn, very nice touch. Big job and well done Shawn!!
Thank you Sheena! This was a great team effort
Why do you always put hay on top of the dirt?
It protects the seed from birds, it holds moisture, it decomposes and releases nutrients 👍
Geophysical engineer
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i have that same seed spreader, which setting do you like to use?
Do you ever do or suggest rain water collection system? Maybe they can do a waterfall in the back corner to use the water it collects?
We have so much water here that no one collects it. It would be heck of a resource.
Nice job! Amazing how fast you can do these jobs with all the equipment you have. I was looking forward to seeing the new lawn and rain footage. I guess I need to console myself and imagine it working brilliantly.
The neighbors are OK with it until they are not. Good vid Shawn.
Yeah that would worry me… I’m in real estate and had a house flooding once the neighbor up the street had some work like this,done,
I definitely has a long conversation with the homeowner before we did this.
The yard slopes towards the back
In Phoenix, since water is such a valuable item, our swimming pools, most of them have channel drains around the pool to catch with kids and people going in and out and the water runs back into the pool via a channel in the crete... but this only works on new pools as the drains become clogged within days of building the pool and no one ever flushes and cleans them... they just pack full of debris until water is going everywhere, LOL.
Needed to pour a set of steps and tie those in with the catch basin.
That would have looked better.
Those rickety steps tho!!
That's a great idea! New steps were on the list of improvements after the new pool deck extension. They could have poured them and it would look great.
Thumbnail says "SoluTTions" when you get a chance to fix it!
Thank you! I'm trying to do too many things at once. I found a solution (:
Are your helpers full-time employees, or do they have other jobs and do this as side work when you have jobs?
I have both
Landscape guy probably took a bribe to stop water going into the rear property. Better to find a solution via drain thru the rear house.
For sure
A smart man would have up sold to the downstream neighbours and piped right through to the next road.
For sure!
Hindsight is 70/40.
A job looking nice is just that.....without the rain footage we can't see if you solved the problem......Which is the main reason for us watching these drainage video's........A nice job......Not really much else to say.
What rake are you using at 21:10 for leveling?
It's a landscape rake similar to amzn.to/45r7l0r
No rain footage. Ughh.
I know Mike. I sat on this for 18 months trying to get footage...
So, let’s see if you answer me with your rigid drain cleaner what size do you use 3/8 by 75’ or 1/2 by 75’
What drone do you use?
I have a Mavic air 2s, Mini 2, Mini 3. The mini 3 is the ticket right now.
12:57 how is the catch basin size determined? I see the pipe going in is pretty big. I understand the water will not fill the pipe but i do assume the catch basin will fill relatively fast if is lets say 3-4 gallons. Yet another good job here!
Not to be a butt head, but I'm thinking to myself, how much standing water will be in those two catch basins? I guess you can always use those "Dunk tablets" to control the mosquito population...
I fast-forwarded to see if you guys did anything with those rotten steps. Dang those are bad. A rocky creek bed would be cool where you cut the swale.
How’s that dichwitch run? Ever have any problems with it?
That long driveway and patio is what's going to send a lot of water back there. No grass to absorb any water. It also looks like he could be sending front and rear roof water to the back. The patio around the pool adds a lot of runoff too.
Not sure how long the dirt was pressed up against the fence, but if it was there before the cement work, it ain't gonna be good. As far as the swale and pipes directing water toward the back neighbor's property, the yard is supposed to be graded away from the house, so water will run down there anyway. The pipes will send it down faster. If the neighbor piles dirt against his side of the fence, the water will flood the far end of your customer's yard. I don't know the lay of the land of the neighbor's property, but if it runs downhill, he could grade the yard to channel the water away from his house.
No matter how you slice it, your customer's cement work will end up screwing the neighbor.
You've spoiled us with rain videos of afterwards!
But what if the neighbors wanted to continue the lines from the catch basin to dump on the edge of their property? Have you done cross property drains before?
Yeah likely that neighbor didnt much care since there was that big pile of dirt blocking it from going onto their property. Im sure they noticed the influx of water now the piles of dirt are gone. It is what it is tho.
I’m a little surprised you didn’t trim the pipes at the outlets to match the ground level. It would make so you could run a mower over it, make less of a trip hazard and it would look better, almost making them disappear to eye. Did you put any kind of rodent guards at the outlets? I guess if they get in there it wouldn’t take much to wash them out, like a good rain. Lol
dont think the neighbors had much argument anyway its not like you were diverting a natural water run just doing work on the areas were it runs anyway! Its intresting to watch these videos as someone who lives in the uk we get flooding issues etc but our communities have access to larger public drain systems,they aint always fantastic but it makes jobs like this easier to find somewhere for the water to go
Should've removed a couple of tree's. Just so the sun would get into the yard, Dirt.
Why not talk to the neighbor behind him and find the low point or a real drainage point, seems the water wants to go to the back of the yard, why trap it, this is my assessment at 1:53, I stopped the video and will watch more now.
May we assume you left your business card with the neighbors?😁
I try not to miss any of your projects.I like how to treat your people,and work with the homeowners
Nice job, looking good.👏👏👏
catch basin concrete job look atrocious
“And I guess the neighbors are fine with it too”
Only one way to find out 😅
Haha
She needs to be called out, some man in your audience may take her away !
Thanks for pulling this out after so long.
What a mess. 😬
it cleaned up very well.
@@GCFD Yes! Very satisfying. 👍🏻
UGH! You're killing me not showing the rain footage lol. I was so looking forward to that! Good job though!
Same! That’s the best part of all his videos.
No rainfall wrap up? 😮
White Chin Hair 🙂
ah man! was getting that itch of needing some more videos!
I have a bunch I need to make but the time is killing me...
The hand rail could stand a bit of work
agreed
He mentioned the entire set of stairs is going to be replaced.
For sure. It's on the list to get replaced.
@@jonathanjudd3168 My comment was very young when watching the video.
I am gonna watch to the end. I know you have a different style and a different soil type tailored to the customer in your local area. However, I think I know what the French Drain Man would try to sell, but you always surprise me!
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Last video you got Ronald to wear safety glasses “for the video” but then you use the demo saw with no mask 🤦
That was a short enough cut that I didn't need to breathe. 👍
why have catch basin outlet at the top? whole bottom will be full of water causing mosquitos!
You have the outlet at the top to achieve fall. There are drain holes drilled in the bottom of the basins to allow the residual water to drain. 👍