Phase Two complete. Friday begins Phase Three.
At 7 p.m. I finished Phase Two of the work needed to create and connect a new dry well to the downspout on the north side of our house.
This completed the diagonal from the drywell, turned to a pipe parallel to the north side of the house, then connected to a surface drain and then a connection to the downspout.
The surface drain pipe is there but the connection to the downspout is left open, waiting for Phase Three which starts on Friday.
The difficulty was in the turn. A 16th turn was not quite enough but a 45 degree turn was too much. I went with the 45 degree turn, reasoning that when the downspout pipe connects it can push the line just enough to get it on course. The slighter turn would require to pull the pipe in, which would not be possible without a strap of some sort.
The other thing: I ran into a concrete foundation for our car port. The landscaper had buried it as part of the dry-well. What a heavy beast! It is a cylindar so I rolled it up a ramp so it would be out of the way. Not sure what I will do with it.
The unexpected bonus from Phase Two was a bevy of flatish rocks and some other large rocks. The rocks with flat sides I can turn into a pathway in Marvin's Garden.
Phase Three will require excavating to the basement window and the downspout, moving out the river rock, putting in the new piping, adding the new window well, bolting the well to the foundation, filling in the well with river rock, extending the ditch as far as possible (past the river rock), removing all river rock, putting a grate on the vertical pipe and filling everything in.
On June 6 I begin the big push. This will be six days of work to put in the gate and garbage area, finish the northside drainage and other tasks (including mowing the lawn and park strip!). This will allow me to run up to July 4 with a much better preparation for drunken croquet. I am not going to promise I will get everything done, but I will do what I can do!
This completed the diagonal from the drywell, turned to a pipe parallel to the north side of the house, then connected to a surface drain and then a connection to the downspout.
The surface drain pipe is there but the connection to the downspout is left open, waiting for Phase Three which starts on Friday.
The difficulty was in the turn. A 16th turn was not quite enough but a 45 degree turn was too much. I went with the 45 degree turn, reasoning that when the downspout pipe connects it can push the line just enough to get it on course. The slighter turn would require to pull the pipe in, which would not be possible without a strap of some sort.
The other thing: I ran into a concrete foundation for our car port. The landscaper had buried it as part of the dry-well. What a heavy beast! It is a cylindar so I rolled it up a ramp so it would be out of the way. Not sure what I will do with it.
The unexpected bonus from Phase Two was a bevy of flatish rocks and some other large rocks. The rocks with flat sides I can turn into a pathway in Marvin's Garden.
Phase Three will require excavating to the basement window and the downspout, moving out the river rock, putting in the new piping, adding the new window well, bolting the well to the foundation, filling in the well with river rock, extending the ditch as far as possible (past the river rock), removing all river rock, putting a grate on the vertical pipe and filling everything in.
On June 6 I begin the big push. This will be six days of work to put in the gate and garbage area, finish the northside drainage and other tasks (including mowing the lawn and park strip!). This will allow me to run up to July 4 with a much better preparation for drunken croquet. I am not going to promise I will get everything done, but I will do what I can do!