Fixing some warehouse flooding issues
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- This warehouse was flooding every time it would rain. We simply accounted for the gutter water by piping it out of the area with 6" PVC.
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long time no see...where ya been GCFD?
Hey Charlie! I've been super busy this summer
@@GCFD Hope that means lots of videos to come?!
@@dbann9020 for sure!
@@GCFDyesssssssss! I need huge doses of schedule 40!
Good to see you again! Hope all is well with you and the team! You've been missed.
Thank you! Yes everything is going well. It's been a busy summer
Hi Shawn, it's great to have you back, we all missed you. I know it's a lot of time, and work editing, and making these videos, but i speak on behalf of everyone when i say we really appreciate your hard work on these videos. Unlike any other creators on YT, your videos are very educational, you show solutions from all angles, you show possible solutions, and reasons for changing, you show mistakes, and you show unexpected problems, and how you solve them in the middle of the job. That is very important, and most other channels don't show that. Between the equipment maintenance, building, and fabricating your own equipment, the small jobs, and the huge jobs, we learn something new in every video, and i thank you for the dedication, and hard work. We also love your travel, and adventure videos (Megalodon teeth diving is on my bucket list) Another great job on this project, i look forward to all your videos.
Thank you! I'm scheduled to do a meg dive this coming friday and was wondering if I should take the camera...
"I had to move the post..." LOL That Kubota is such a cool machine and it's great to see it run by a skilled operator. Thanks Shawn, as always!
Glad to see you’re back! We’ve all missed the crew!
Thank you! It's been a busy summer for sure
He's back! Great stuff. Learning lots from our videos.
Thank you!
Great video of the installation process from start to finish.👍
Great video as usual Shawn. Problem solving is one of your strong points. A lot of times these people marking buried lines are just guesstimating themselves. That happens in my neighborhood but I've taken pictures of the buried lines along my property and at the corner when they've come out to make repairs to the buried electric. The township just replaced the under street culvert pipe and nicked the electric then buried it and a few days later my neighbor lost all electric power and they had to dig it up again to repair it. As I mentioned before we need conscientious contractors like yourself here in PA.
Thank you Paul!
Shawn is back!!! 🎉
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Thank you for the shout-out to the Winchester Mystery House.
A new Sean video! My 4 year old and I are so excited 🎉 it’s fine we’ve been binge watching your old videos
Really nice feature on the excavator. I had absolutely no idea that any of them could do that.
Happy to see another video! Thank you for taking the time. We appreciate the effort you put into this. Just switched from patreon to joining the channel. Have a coffee on us every month. 🙂☕
Shawn, great to see you and the crew back, it’s been a while. Please ask Ronald to wear some eye protection too when he’s using the cutting disk and sledge hammer. Thanks. 😀
Nice job stranger. I always like when it’s the three of you working on the project. It’s like a well earled machine. What a DIFFERENCE working with the Six inch pipe. You work that little machine like a real pro. Great video and thanks always for the rain shots. Hope all is well……..Bobby
Thank you Bobby! All is well over here and I'm glad to get another video up for you
Welcome back to the 3 Amigos - Shawn, Ronald and Jeremy - great to see you all back!
Great solution and I fully appreciate your struggles with a complex 6” pipe install.
I look forward to your next videos (Ronald is a character - he should do some more summarizing on the work - great content!)
Nice to see u back Shawn with the drainage videos 🎯🍺🫡
Good to see the old man again. He's the Goat! I'm glad to see you all back. I LOVE THESE VIDEOS. Thanks Shawn.
Great to see you back 🎉
Thank you Jamie!
I love watching your channel Sean, and there are a few reasons as to why. Despite what you may think I believe your industry is Service. My background is the service industry. When I experience service, I expect a few simple but necessary I guess I would call them actions should happen. First, you listen to the customer and you ask questions and again you listen. Active listening is simple basic. You need to know what the customer wants from you. You explain what you can do to alleviate the issues they are having. Then you can settle on cost. Second, you take action. Do the job and if problems arise you communicate those with the customer. When you job is complete, I know that you talk again with your customer. You let them know what was done. Finally, you return in the rain to show us the job you did is working as you have told the customer you would do was done. If not, you fix it. All of that is key to keep your customers happy and coming back as you have told us. To sum up Listening, working the project and if its not right make it right. To me that is the best customer service.
Nice to see you back.Great work you see how your fan club is missing you.
Ohhhh! Thanks Shawn for your Hard work. You make it look so Easy!
Great to see you back brother !!! Please keep up the good work and keep the videos coming !!!
Thank you Michael! I'm going to try and get caught up on videos
Great to see you guys again! Hope life has been treating you all well.
Good to see ya'll back! Great job Shawn/team! Good seeing Ronald, thoughtful competent worker, he's great.
Thank you!!
I was just thinking yesterday that it's been a while. Thank you!
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Great video as always Shawn! I've missed watching the videos of you and the crew.
Excellent job!! Great to see a video from you again!!
Thanks!! Good to see your doing it!! Just fit it in when you can. Cheers!
Great work, great team, as always!
We are glad your posting new video, enjoy your videos
Thank you Alfredo!
Love watching the way you and team work together. Some real hard workers and lots of respect.
Thank you! This was a tough job and took 1.5 days.
Yay more videos! Hopefully you post some new videos regularly! Thanks
Great camera angles and editing! The precast junction/storm drain cut in shots, well done. Ya'll are on your youtube game!.
Thank you and I agree! The problem is all that cool work takes time on the job and at the computer. I'm starting to get tired..
@@GCFDTime to hire an editor to put your videos together?
I think you need a borescope for those downspout inlets. It’s always satisfying to see your work. And it’s crazy this was a two day job. Your excavator really made it efficient.
You think the borescope for during the rain footage? I have been looking into getting one. There are some good ones on amazon and Ridgid makes one too.
@@GCFD yes sir. And the car work you do too.
"That thing was a changegamer" :D
Haha it really was
Awesome job! Love how it turned out.
I just looked at your channel a few days ago to make sure I wasn’t missing anything because it’s been a while. Glad to see you guys are back. And busy!
The boy's are back! ❤
As always great work!
We missed bro. Welcome back.
Fantastic job
Wow - Long time no see, glad to see you back and nothing happened to you. Maybe post from time to time in community or shorts if you have an extended break as some people do worry about you if we do not see you for a while.
That's a great idea!
I’ve missed you guys. Thanks
Thank you! 👍
Good to see you back Shawn hope everyone is well your side of the pond, all the best Steve
Thank you Steve! All is well!
Shawn what great guys you have working with you good help is hard to find
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Great job! 😎👍 That puddle was a bit inconvenient at the end 😜😉
For sure!
Missed the videos glad to see you are still posting
👍👍 Thanks John
Good to see another of your videos and a full crew. Of course it's on a weekend and your suppliers are closed. The Fickle Finger of Fate rears its head again. Cheers from Edmonton Alberta.
You need to get yourself a rock bar they got at Home Depot. You’ll love it when you’re putting pipe together or lifting pipe. It’s just a world of difference. I used to lay pipe in the 80s.
I'll check it out!
awesome job, thank you for the video!
Good to see new vids!
"I had to widen the fence!" 😂 Thanks for dropping another video, great content as always.
Haha thank you! 👍
Well done guys great job 👏 love your videos
Thank you Anton!
Nice to see you
Thank you Peter!
You’re BACK!!!
This must’ve been filmed before the summer. Hope all is well and summer projects are on the way. Your videos are a welcomed relief from a crazy world.
Thank you Scott! I did a few big projects over the summer but not a lot of drainage work.
So glad you’re back. I missed your posts. Hopefully everything is going well for you.
Thanks! Yes everything is going well!
You need Menards in your area! My local Menards has 10 of the 6" couplers in stock., 🙂
I was beginning to think you sold the business and became a diving instructor in some exotic tropical locale!
Hey man, FYI, they do make slow cure PVC glue. For these large pipes it will give you some more open time ..
Good to see you back!
Thank you!
great to see you back.
Thank you Sam!
Checked to make sure I was still subbed waiting for the video to drop. Look forward to watching later.
Thank you Cliff!
Love all your videos, I was wondering if the main you dug was a bit deeper you could run the pipe from the gutter in the top of the main then all the angles from the building would be adjustable and not depending on pipe fittings that are available
Spectrum does the same in Texas. They use a spade to make a 2 inch deep slit in the soil and just tuck the cable in.
Man, do they not believe in conduit?
Nice, Remember Sunday is funday. Ronald seems like he knows a thing or two. If you have an obstacle remove it, that's what the military says!
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Good to see a fresh post :)
Thank you!
glad to see a video it's been a while I have missed them and hope to see more soon
Thank you Matt! I'm hoping to get some videos rolling
Good job. Really enjoyed this video. Would back filling the trench with stones to make a French drain have been a good idea to help move that ground water?
Instead of trying to jack hammer all the way thru that wall get the 16” hammer drill bit set from HF and put in the smallest bit. The small bit won’t have any trouble w the brick and you can then chase it w the wide blade to get the full size. By drilling the hole you create a space for the brick to chip out into reducing the forces required to make it break.
We do that with precast concrete and it works well 👍
Hey! love the content. I'm surprised you didn't use that back fill dirt to create a swale right on top of the pipe with the extra dirt going against the building? Just food for thought for next time. Thanks for the vid!
I could have done that for sure. Great suggestion!
I see the suggestion and it sounds good for most of the path, but it would put a swale with flowing water right through the gate in the fence - might not be out there walking in the wet too much but it might be a problem...
@@benjaminbumby1700 Better under the gate than in the building!
Another great video! Keep it up :D
Thank you Dino!
long time no see...where ya been GCFD?, He's back! Great stuff. Learning lots from our videos. as usual, We’ve all missed the crew!
Thank you! Yes it's been a busy summer!
My daughter bought a house, and discovered that the basement floor drain, another floor drain immediately outside the walk-out basement door, the foundation perimeter drain, and all the gutters flowed into a 6" PVC pipe that had a good outfall in a natural area 50-some feet away from the building and several feet lower. The basement flooded in a heavy rain, with water coming up both floor drains (and under the door). They had a guy bring a sewer camera to inspect. The 6" pipe was thin-wall PVC and about 85% collapsed. They just got it replaced; now the gutters & foundation drains all come together in a new 6" schedule 40 pipe, and the two floor drains flow through a separate 4" sch 40 in the same trench, so if the big pipe collapses or gets blocked somehow, all that gutter water doesn't have a path to back up into the basement. (I told them to call you, but since they're in NE Ohio, they didn't think you'd take the job. 😂)
Wow! I'm glad they got some good pipe in there. Why not use schedule 40 to begin with I wonder?
@@GCFD They probably saved like $7 using the thin stuff! 😂
Ahh there is another... Was just about to sent out the calvery after all the storms etc Hope all went well out there for that mess... Well its certainly safe to say That one is not going to go anywhere w the Jumbo application...+ 1 on the pizza Qty... ( you knew i would comment for that )... i kept looking up the street watching for traffic to not hit the tripod.. Cheers
Thank you! There was really no traffic since this was a business area and we were working over the weekend. 👍
There should be a clean out or catch basin at each junction.
Health safety eye protection. Flying concrete
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Shawn you should have covered that air con unit from the dust from the constitution.
So weird that the US utility doesn't include storm water. Here in Norway my house has three under ground water connections from the city - water, sewer and storm water. All my downspouts and catch basins connect to the public storm water. And this has been the standard since at least the 70s.
Just wondering on a commercial job like this would you consider putting a locate wire on top of your pipe so future utility work could locate your pipes.
Yes we do use a locating wire on occasion.
I was like when are we getting another video!!
I know I've been super busy! I'm glad to get another one out. 👍
that was the worst part about lowes... never had what anyone needed in stock LOL
Hi Shawn. Love the video. I'm wondering if there is a reason why you don't heat the pipe when you are attempting to "tweak" it? Thanks.
did anybody catch when Sean said the demolition hammer was a “change gamer”?
👍 haha
A positive reputation is worth more than making a profit. The key is make certain you are creating a positive reputation for the money you are getting.
Hi at 46:55 The generator must be placed on a flat surface, not an inclined one, so that the oil is distributed properly inside the engine.
Great point! Thank you!
@@GCFD You're welcome🌹
A somewhat easy job. what a difference between a 4" pipe and 6" pipe when gluing. I did check your page just to make sure I didn't miss a video. Work (making money) trumps making a videos.
I've been busy this summer and I'm glad to get a video up!
Having a lazy, rainy Saturday and in you come with an hour after a period of quiet….
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That hump from the pipe going to the front gutter is what’s causing that water to pool there, from what it looks like in the video. 🤷🏻♂️
could have just drilled down into the huge culvert under the property :D
I wish we could have done that but I estimated it to be 10 feet deep and we ddin't want that huge of an excavation.
Where'd you run off to? Glad to see you putting out some content.
It's been a busy summer Benjamin!
@@GCFD I'm glad to hear that. Hope it's been a good time and profitable too.
Can the 6 inch pvc pipe handle all that water, did you run calculations.
I didn't calculate it but 6" can move a massive amount of water!
I was thinking the same. I thought an 8" pipe for the main run from the end(s) of the 4th and/or 3rd angled pipe to the sewer.
Did you get the county , city Permission to put a hole in there catch basin 😮😅
Yes. Around here they don't mind coring into the curb or their basins. They don't require written permission or anything.
Being the back of a commercial building why not just surface mount the pvc to the outside of the wall and then just bury it for that short run between the drainage basin and the end of the building. Probably would have been a significantly less expensive project for the client.
That definitely would have worked!
Far less chance of the drainage system getting damaged from mowers if it's underground. Also no UV degradation.
I always wondered why you glue the risers? The piece that goes around the down spouts. I had to install several drains around my home like this, but I do not glue the risers. This allows me to slide them up over the down spout and stick my blower in the pipe to clear it out when necessary. Your thoughts?
I've had them leak before when we don't glue them. The water just dribbles through the joint.
What if you built the wye first without the stub? To eliminate the directions you need to simultaneously push, I mean. Using the sideways flex of the mainline, you'd be able to insert the stub into the wye and the 90 at once if you wanted, pushing in a nice straight line. You'd have to be careful with alignment but way less sweatin' & swearin' involved
Great suggestion! We've tried it that way but I like the "glue and smash together" method because the wye finds its angle and doesn't mess up our fall. It's tough working with 6" and hand tools.
Do you need a permit to cut through the city infrastruture ?
Surely 4 inch pipe would have been enough...?
It might have been but I don't like to reduce down from those huge downspouts into a 4" pipe.
i don't get it, are'nt fondations waterproofed in the US?
Looks like land slopes towards building