Since all new mulch was going in, I made this
shield around the catch basin to keep the mulch from washing
into the
drain.
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Checking fit and position.
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Filling in and routing the
downspout
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As I was finishing up a storm
hit, so we got to see it in
action.
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It
works!.
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I realized
while working on the one at the house,
I should probably do something with the drainage issues at the detached
garage.
There was a mysterious
hole in the dirt at the corner of the foundation where
the water disappeared into. Digging down I found what
appeared to be an old drain pipe. My guess is the
water was draining down through the hole and into this pipe.
Where it went after that was anyones guess, though, when it
rained real hard, the water stopped draining at the hole
and washed its way around the garage and through the flower
bed
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So I decided to put in another catch
basin. Originally I thought I'd tie into the old
pipe
somehow.
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Then realized that was silly and I should
tie into the pipe from the house. It meant a lot more work,
but it would be done
right
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You can see how far I got after two days
of ditch digging. Because the elevation of the yard drops off
after the sidewalk, the ditch from the garage was
significantly lower then the ditch coming from the sidewalk.
That meant two things. The first was I'd have to put a
step-down from the sidewalk ditch to the garage ditch; and
second, the end point for all this was going to have to be
significantly lower then the garage
ditch.
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The mostly completed sidewalk drain.
There were still some tweaks it needed. There was a small gap
between the catch basin and the foundation, I was slowly
filling with sand. I pack it in there, let it settle and pack
in some more. The downspout was also too short. I needed it to
just about touch the catch basin grill to keep splashing to a
minimum. Also the sand in front of the basin needed
covering with asphalt
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