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| Brian Houghtby 2006-07-15, 9:25 am |
| I am getting ready to trench in some solid 4" tile for gutter drains, How
deep should I go with this tile? Central Ohio.
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| tbasc@bellsouth.net 2006-07-15, 1:25 pm |
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Brian Houghtby wrote:
> I am getting ready to trench in some solid 4" tile for gutter drains, How
> deep should I go with this tile? Central Ohio.
Below frost line and above footing.
Local building department or construction related folk should know
local frost level.
TB
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| Normally I would say, where the lawn mower won't hit it.
<tbasc@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> Brian Houghtby wrote:
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> Below frost line and above footing.
> Local building department or construction related folk
> should know local frost level.
> TB
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| S.t.e.v.e. 2006-07-17, 3:25 am |
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"Brian Houghtby" <b_houghtby@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> I am getting ready to trench in some solid 4" tile for gutter drains, How
> deep should I go with this tile? Central Ohio.
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I ran 4" PVC underground away from my house in Virginia. It averages about
6" below surface. Frost heaving is not a worry because the pipe has enough
flexibility. If it were installed any deeper I would not have been able to
have the water exit. It worked well with the 12" of rain we had a few
weekends ago.
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| Shredder 2006-07-17, 5:25 pm |
| Thanks to all
"Brian Houghtby" <b_houghtby@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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>I am getting ready to trench in some solid 4" tile for gutter drains, How
>deep should I go with this tile? Central Ohio.
>
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Brian Houghtby wrote:
> I am getting ready to trench in some solid 4" tile for gutter drains, How
> deep should I go with this tile? Central Ohio.
I would go at least 4 feet below grade. Where I live in Canada, we get
some major cold weather for amny months and 4 feet seems to get below
the frost line. You could always just run it around the footings.
Cheers
Marc
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| Unless you are going to dump it into a cistern or well, I assume
it has to daylight someplace and that end will freeze anyway so
why bury it so deep? Why not let it spill onto a splash and go
across the lawn where it can do some good during the summer
months? You sit high enough for a deep line like that to drain?
"CALS" <clean.air.landscaping@sympatico.ca> wrote in
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> Brian Houghtby wrote:
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> I would go at least 4 feet below grade. Where I live in
> Canada, we get some major cold weather for amny months
> and 4 feet seems to get below the frost line. You could
> always just run it around the footings.
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> Cheers
> Marc
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| HerHusband 2006-07-19, 1:25 pm |
| > I am getting ready to trench in some solid 4" tile for gutter drains,
> How deep should I go with this tile? Central Ohio.
We installed gutter drains last year (Washington state). We used
inexpensive plastic drain pipes, the straight rigid kind, not the
corrugated type.
I used premade catch basins I got from Lowes, so I set the farthest basin
so the top grate was even with the ground. This put the pipe about 6 inches
below the ground. I sloped the pipe 1/4" per foot, so the pipe ended up
about two feet under the ground at it's deepest point (before the yard
starts to slope down the hill again). I had to use risers for the other
basins to bring the grate up to ground level.
Our drains end at the hillside at the edge of our yard. I installed rock
and gravel where the drains discharge, and put a grated cap over the pipe
end to keep out "critters".
I have to clean pine needles and other small debris from the discharge end
once or twice a year, but otherwise the system works great.
Anthony
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