How to install gutters in 8 steps 1.
How to install gutter drain lines.
Determine what works best for your house before ordering gutters and attachments.
To prevent erosion make a rock bed around the end of the tube.
Screw a drain cover over the end of the tubing as it approaches daylight to keep critters out.
I wanted a good way to get rainwater from the roof as far away from the house as possible.
Call 811 to locate underground utilities.
Underground gutter drainage step 1.
Before installing gutters rainwater from the roof fell to the ground and didn t flow anywhere before soaking in to the soil hence large spring rains lead to water in the basement.
Now that the trench is dug you can assemble the catch basin.
Use only 45 or 22 5 degree bends underground.
How to install a drain pipe in a flower bed how to unclog a landscape drain pipe the downspouts on your house s guttering system carry many gallons of rainwater off your roof and onto your yard.
Mark the highest point of the gutter run on the fascia 1 inches below the metal drip edge flashing on the extra wide fascia shown here the gutter is lower down.
Use solid sdr 35 pvc pipe.
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Dig trenches for drainage pipe.
Install downspout drain line tips.
Before digging call 811 to have utility lines marked.
Assemble and place the catch basin.
Installation of gutter drain including downspout and hdpe triple wall pipe.
Snap layout lines photo by mary beth montgomery.