Drainage pipe material

[Inspector Gadget]

"Yup get them holes facing down and don't connect the gutters into it!"

Better still, keep foundation drainage and storm drainage piping separated all the way to daylight, so a clog in a common line can't back storm drainage up into the foundation drains.

Saw one job recently where I was doing a backfill and found pipes with no holes, and when I went to discuss this with the contractor, the contractor grabbed a shovel and unearthed a second run of perf pipe: the first was exclusively for roof drainage. Rare to see that sort of forethought.

 

[tmurray]

Saw one job recently where I was doing a backfill and found pipes with no holes, and when I went to discuss this with the contractor, the contractor grabbed a shovel and unearthed a second run of perf pipe: the first was exclusively for roof drainage. Rare to see that sort of forethought.

That is what we see now. When I started here, it was common practice to pipe them into the perimeter drain of the home. You know, so every time it rains, you have a water injection system to deliver water as close as possible to your foundation. The up side is you will know if your piping clogs up very quickly. The down side is that because your basement is now a swimming pool.

 

[Inspector Gadget]

That is what we see now. When I started here, it was common practice to pipe them into the perimeter drain of the home. You know, so every time it rains, you have a water injection system to deliver water as close as possible to your foundation. The up side is you will know if your piping clogs up very quickly. The down side is that because your basement is now a swimming pool.

Indoor swimming pool? Don't tell SNB assessment.