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You’re right - most people don’t like 20+ minute videos. That’s because there’s generally not 20 minutes of useful content in such a video. The actual useful content in this video is about 7-8 minutes. Being concise and staying on point is not only an art, but a good way to keep people watching and subscribing.

Hello Robert, We're in CT and I'll be doing this on 3 sides of our home and this video made me think of many items I did not consider. Thank you for all the tips and tricks as we'll be applying many of these in our build.

I’m in Michigan… planning on redoing my gutters…. Gonna check out your website… thank you for making this

people skip around or close the video early because you rambled on about nothing for the first five minutes!!

Great video, learned a lot. Def going to use your techniques and products shown.

You’re so right about buying downspout pipes from the big box stores. I bought some a few months ago, they are all ripped off already. Lessons learned from your video is not to do that again. Thanks for sharing your expertise.

Good video. Finally a video that addresses the freezing problem. Seems like all the other video makers live in an area where it never freezes and they never bother to warn people that this will not work in a cold climate.

One of those rare videos of such concise breadth and depth, that, in watching it, I feel as though I've gone from asking the initial question "how do I do this (to my own house) *correctly*?" that lead me to this video, to feeling like I could do this as a side hustle. Great video.

I'm grateful that you made these videos and I'm grateful to have found it when I needed

Thanks Robert! 👍🏻

Awesome, Awesome, Awesome!!! Thank You!!!

Thank you !

Enlightening for me as homeowner in northern Sweden. Many thanks!

I watched the whole video. No ADD here. Thank you.

Just got mine done had a hard time getting pipe. Bought ur pre-made ys and 90s. Ended up running all dual wall ads pipe. How much do u worry about fall I dont see ur guys using levels much on ur videos. Ur vidoes were a great help keep up the nice work. Im in the central lower. 🤚🤟

Buddy, you rock!

Awesome, thank you. EXTREMELY BENEFICIAL TO WATCH THE ENTIRE VIDEO. PROFESSIONALLY ITS THE BEST ON KZfaq .

Excellent video,thank you

Hey Robert, any reason why no fabric was used with the knife cut and rounded 1.25" rocks? Wouldn't soil and dirt block the knife cuts at some point?

We live west of the Twin Cities, so freezing can be an issue. Currently we have a 25' run of the black commodity piping laying on the ground parallel to and about 4' away from the house. There is plenty of fall, (Have not noticed any freeze up) and the last 8' is knife cut. A landscaper suggested that I bury the pipe. I wanted to run it to daylight. Can I do that with the high octane, or should I do a pop up? The daylight option gets surface water to the north side of the house and that grass, so I was thinking that was a benefit. I really like the vent/cleanout option at the downspout joint. You suggest and midline vent as well? Thanks for the video, well done.

New subscriber here. This is a fantastic video! Glad that you covered frozen conditions. We live in the 248 area and need a reliable drainage system for our home. How busy are you guys these days?

Great video! We just had downspouts buried but I have a question about the connection to the house. Our house was built with 2x3 downspouts and they are much smaller than the connecting PVC with the clean out plug so there is a lot of space around the downspouts where they go into the connector. Is there any way to close that space off to keep leaves and debris out of the line other than duct tape? That's the only thing I can think of that might work to close that space up. Thanks!

I'm From South West Texas, and I Really Enjoy Your Video...

Hello, love the channel. Hoping for some advice. I'm in So. Fla, on a fairly new property, hoping to feed my downspouts a little more directly to my swale at the front of the property. I've got a nice pitch that falls to an easement all around, and this easement falls into the swale. I'm hoping to run a system like this, corrugated but not perforated to help send water from all of my downspouts to the swale. I'd say my total drop is roughly 18 inches from my highest downspout above grade to my swale. Concern is that I often park my boat in the back, and will need to run this system where I often drive. Would I be able to install this and not risk crushing it when I drive over it? Can it be reinforced? I know burrito wraps with stone is for french drain (open, vs sealed) but would it reinforce my trench enough to prevent me from crushing? Thanks

Great materials, Can’t sell them far south due to the lack of demand and price point competition. Great video!!!

I live in MN and have used your high octane with the vented pipes on the downspouts. I’ve struggled with my DB freezing up every winter, but it sounds like there’s nothing I can really do about it. I do have an open grate on my large DB’s, but do you think a pop up would be better?

Very nice!!!!!!

When installing the distribution box do you place anything inside the box over the drain holes or gravel under the box to allow for drainage . Thanks again for the videos , finally getting our drainage issues addressed now that the frost is out of the ground.

Thank you for the video. What kind of questions do you ask a contractor to learn if they use supplies and pipe to handle an Iowa winter?

Trying to get two downspouts fixed. Can I run solid gold pipe to a Y connector(in area i don’t want any water to drain in) and then use the high octane pipe to the D Box? Also how much water weeps out of the knife cut vs the corrugated drain? Will dirt get into knife cut?

Boy, I wish your channel was around back in 2015 when I had to redo all the downspouts and a sump pump discharge at a house in Chicago. I buried PVC because roots had caused the old black corrugated to fail, and I figured glued schedule 40 would keep the roots out. I sloped it all meticulously, so it wouldn't hold water and freeze, and everything daylights to a ditch. Fingers crossed for the current owners.

How crucial is the air gap between pipes in dbox? I see the dbox functioning as a miniature retention pond (long term) and as detention one during a rain event.

Love your videos i watch just about everyone you upload. Have for almost 2 years now. I have a couple of questions. What is your main avenue for geting work, and Is it just that residential drainage is more needed in the north or is it that ppl have more of a disposable income in michigan. Also when are you going to open a couple more locations so you can offer franchises?

Hi Robert, great video. I bough a home built in 1955. I live in NY. I have 2 gutter downspouts connected to a dry well. One of the downspouts overflow in very heavy rain, so I needed to pull out the gutters to redirect, but in ground pipe still overflows (unfortunately right next to basement window and floods window and then floods basement). I have plans to regrade the back yard so it slopes away from house. So have a few questions (1) do u think i should disconnect the pipes to dry well and create a downspout drain or (2) use a dry well system instead (not sure the advantages or disadvantages) (30 how far down do u need to dig down to install pipes to survive the winter?, Lastly (4) can i keep the current dry well that in the ground? Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. Oh ne more thing...how much should I expect to pay a profession to connect 2 downspouts?

Quick question,do you get utility companies to mark out their lines underground? Is that required when doing drainage systems such as underground downspout installations? I want to do this for two downspouts along the side of my house where the gas meter also happens to be..

Thanks for your informative video. It is helpful. Since I am not from Michigan, how do I search for a Drainage specialist like your skillset? What should we ask for to ensure the specialist will use the blue pipe? Thanks.

I used this guy’s videos and products to diy my own last year in northern Virginia. I can confirm the high octane solid pipe is far superior to the black big box store products. Now when it rains, the giggling kid in me likes to take the tops off the D-Boxes and watch exactly how much water runs through the system instead of saturating my clay yard.

Thanks for posting how to handle in cold temperatures. It appears that you don't need to dig as deep as you would with a French drain is that correct?

I'm a little south of Indianapolis. Still cold season grass, but pretty close to the transition zone. If the grass roots do grow a little deeper, how do you compensate for that? Dig a bit deeper? Or just not use knife-slit pipe? Lastly, do you have any do's and don't for pop-up placement? Is closer to the curb/driveway or middle of the yard better?

What do you think about your ditch witch? I found out most of the big brand mini skids have the kabota Diesel engine

New subscriber, came across your videos because I have an issue with a downspout not draining and it has caused the crawl space to be flooded on that side. All it has is a splash block and the way the ground is it's not draining properly. What's the advantage over these corrugated pipes over the black ones Lowes sells?

My house has a French drain that drains into the sump. The sump pump then sends that water to the storm drain. Currently my downspouts just percolate the water down into the French drain. Do I need to redirect this water or is it ok to just let the French drain do the work?

Great video, thanks. Don’t know if I missed this comment or not but do you do anything about leveling out so the water drains down?

Great content, what are the options for us in northern Michigan especially in lake effect area where we get deep snow cover through the winter even during thaws. Our roof snow will melt but in many cases the ground snow is still covered in 2-3' of snow. Can we install a underground drainage system? Our current setup of drain spouts off our downspouts are not really working either.

@ 11:23 I want to connect two downspouts using a Y connector. Can two solid downspout underground pipes going into a Y connector survive winters in the north?

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I live in Minnesota. Is there a way to get your products without paying the $350 freight fee? Do you have any distributors in MN?

very effective system indeed. How would I clear the debris collected in the D-Box? Thank you!

So, you're in the North of the US (Michigan I think I heard)? For the downspout system you're doing you don't need to go below the frost line?

I purchased over a 100' of this drain tile from you. Wondering what technique you use for straightening it out so it lays flat in the trench? When received in the roll, I'm having a hard time getting a section to unbend/straighten. Thank you!

Hi Robert, I live in northeast Ohio by Lake Erie in a development that has yard drains, my question is can I run this style pipe from all my downspouts to that yard drain and not use the pop ups?

Thanks for the video. I have the pop ups in my drains. My problem is my mower deck has a tendency to suck them up and share them off. How do you deal with this?

Great video! I'm curious though, why do you drill a hole in the bottom of your pop-up instead of just using a sump pop-up?

Very informative video. I live in Michigan as well. How far under a brick paver walkway do I need to bury the drain pipe without the freezing and thawing forcing the walkway upwards?

Just discovered your channel. Great video thanks for the information. I have a question. I live in the country and I have to deal with a lot of tree roots etc. My house is at the top of an incline so my sump pump does not run a lot. Is there any reason that I cannot use this system with my sump pump?

How big of a hole do you drill in elbow of pop up? And is one hole enough? Live in Indiana.

Could you tell me how far from my septic tank and leech field my drain pipe and discharge should be (Connecticut). Thank you for this great instructional video!

SOLID vs KNIFE CUT... I want to put french drain on either side of my colonial home in New England. 2 drains per side would tie into each other on either side of house and escape to the street. The home sits on land approximately 5 feet higher than the road with an old stone wall in front. Which should I use? Its about a 50' run from the back downspouts to the road and 15' from the front downspouts to road.

So I have a few questions, not so much about what you covered, but what is suitable for my situation. Recently we dug up around the foundation of my house to do some repairs because water was getting in (there were a couple cinder blocks with nice big holes in them) and I'm wondering when it's filled in, should I run a downspout system like this or a French drain. I'm in the northeast (new jersey to be exact) and my yard is pretty flat. It's a pretty short run from the front of the house to the curb (probably 35-40 feet) so I'm wondering what would be the better idea for this. I don't have a ton of money to work with, but I want to do things right.

How does the distribution box work? It look like the pipes were just laying in there and connected. How is a branch or leaves supposed to flow out of there? Also, how often do you clean it? I live in Wisconsin.

Thanks for the video. Can you recommend a guy in North East NJ that does this kind of work? Grey job explains the process

Closing on a house in January and are planning to put a French Drain in on the uphill side of the house. Got any partners/buddies out in Minneapolis?

How important is the D-box? I have a run of about 15 to 20ft.or so with a fairly gently slope. Thanks!

@french drain man Question where would you run the downspout to ? That’s the only issue I am having trying to figure out

Do you have to worry about settling with the knife cut? Also, anything different need to be done when on a steeper home in the Black Hills, SD? Thanks!

Hey Robert, if you have snow buildup on your lawn like most people in the north during the winter, why would the vent clean outs you show work for If you have water freezing at the pop-up? Wouldn’t the snow build up just block the vent from dispersing any water and be stuck with the same problem if you didn’t have vents in the first place?

"The frost depth for this area, and most of the state of Michigan, is 42". Footings are required to be a minimum of 42" deep., measured from the finish grade to the bottom of the footing. " I think the pipes should be put deeper than in you video even in warm climates - at least 30..50 sm (1-2 feet) depending on the traffic above. In that cold climate 1+ meter deep down (3+ feet) should eliminate or minimize water freezing problem.

Hey so the vent has to be above The pop up but is it before or after it (if looking at the line from the house towards discharge)?

Looking at running a new system into a storm drain, the city added in my yard. Any suggestions on the best way to ty in. They used 8". They did say I can drill into it and have my drain drop in. Instead of running in over grade.

Very informative video. You clearly know what you're doing. My only complaint is your comment that "80% of people are going to check out early because of some ADD deal". I know enough about constuction (in the North) that I could tell quickly that you are knowledgeable, but this video could have been far shorter than it was. One of my consulting gigs is creating instructional videos and I could likely edit this down to half the length without losing any of the valuable information. Yes, it's a *lot* of work, but blaming partial views on viewers having an "ADD deal" is a cop out and disrespectful to people with ADD. There are ways to present content that maintain the attention of people with ADD. Note: I still recommend that people should watch the entire video.

great video, what are the dimensions of the trench ?

Do you do estimates from other states if I sent dimensions and layout of my situation for me to purchase materials?

Hey, I'm loving your video. They are giving me the confidence to possibly take on my water issues in my basement before it becomes costly. I live in a pretty flat area, do you have any videos on determining slope to insure I have that 1%?

So this way, you don't need to put pipe under frost line? How deep did you bury the pipe?

Do you happen to come down to Indiana about 3.5hrs south of you would love to get some proper drainage for my yard

What happens when the pipes build up with debris from trees above the roof. Or how do you prevent that from happening

I wish you guys worked in western, NY. I would love to hire you!

Would this stuff work good for an above ground downspout with the correct slope?

I do not own a home, and I do not desire to do this. Yet I watched the whole thing

If there is a septic drainfield , can the downspouts and french drain pipe go through the drainfield or is there any protocol to stay away from drainfield?

Would you be able to run a sump pump in the basement and have it tie into your underground downspout?

If all that's available to me locally is ADS or Prinsco corrugated pipe is that okay to use? I'm in St. Louis, MO and no place sells this blue pipe.

Thanks for the video. Great stuff. I still don't understand what you do during that period in the spring when it's still below freezing overnight, just above freezing during the day. The snow on your roof is melting in the bright sun, but the ground is frozen solid. The ground is frozen solid, so a perforated pipe will not leak anything into the ground. Any water has to drain by the pop-up at the end of the pipe, and, in my experience, the pipe simply slowly fills with ice and backs up ice to the downspout. The only real solutions I've seen are a heated wire or temporary above ground corrugated pipes for this period. But I'm not a pro so I'm really curious if you have some better insight into this.

Can I just knife cut my solid corrugated for the last few feet so I don’t have to buy a separate piece? I also plan to drill holes in the bottom of the 90 at the pop up emitter

Can you explain why you use *knife cut* I will be taking on this DIY in 2 weeks

I have a maple leaf that is about 14 inches across I wonder how many it would take to clog it up

Can you please send me the link where to purchase those commercials grade those material supplier? Thank you

Awesome info. Have a question for you about downspouts being attached to inner foundation drain. We had foundation waterproofing (interior side drain) and are on a good slope. I am thinking connecting one of the gutter downspouts directly to this drain is a bad idea as more water and debris will go into this inner channel. Thinking about piping it further down to where the pipe leaves the house right before the French drain portion. Thanks!

Would you mind sharing how you would adjust for a home in the Deep South? I live in NW Florida. Thank you for your content, I’m learning a lot!

Do you have to wrap the knife cut at the end of the line?

where can i get some these parts, like the black Y connectors attached to gutters, and 3 or 4 inch

Will 3 downspouts put out to much water for one 4in pipe? Do I need to up size to a 6 inch?

How come you aren't using rain pebbles / cover? Wouldn't the drains be more susceptible to roots / soil? I just received a bid for a similar system but haven't got to talking to the guy yet.

Do you have a recommended distance to install the D-box from the nearest downspout?

I can't watch 25 min video .my contractor put perforated pipe for downspout under the concrete . Is that good or bad

this video does not show your "Gutter Downspout Leaf Filter Clean Out". Why ? Do I still need it if I use the Y part shown here ? ( living in Detroit area)

whats the difference between a D box and inline catch basin? or at they the same thing? Thanks!

What's a vent pipe? What's a popup? What's a low profile popup? What's a downspout drain? What's a D-box? Do you have a video with all these definitions? Thanks!

Thank you. Minnesota here. What is "perk"?