I was pumped to try this when I started the video, but your soothing voice and tranquil scenery sounds put me to sleep. Now, I’m just going to go take a nap.

It’s always good to put pea gravel under the outlet point so it doesn’t sink. Great video

Wow. You did a great job. Between all the digging, and the pipe work, the sawing and then the back fill, the workmanship was perfect. Just for the record, if I even dug one quarter of that hole, I would have been taken away by an ambulance. I envy men's strength.

Yet another excellent video on yet another project that I've been considering.

Really good video. Thank you for taking the time to make it. Please add a a little video to the end that simulates rain, maybe with a hose pouring into the gutters or something. It would be great to see the final product functioning.

At our house this winter the snow and ice built up on the gutters for a number of weeks, and when we finally got a few warm days and the gutters started to drain the pop up drain worked. Not sure if it's the black pipe attracting heat, being buried, or was just a factor of the temperature being right, but when the horizontal gutters started draining the piping to the pop-up drain and the pop-up drain worked also.

Thanks for the feedback.

I am a new home owner an you make fixing up my law so fun

Any chance you can give my husband son lessons 😊.. I tend to do all the labor around my house 🤦🏼‍♀️.. thank god for my dad teaching me some things .this is a great idea !👍🏻

Good work and nice tutorial!!

Gravel and fabric are common materials to use on french drains that have perforations, but the pipe here is ADS 3" solid pipe where all the water goes to the pop-up drain.

This is exactly what I need to do, but from a sump pump discharge. Currently have a 2" hose running 15 feet away, but that has caused the low spot of my back yard to flood, and erode. Will be using PVC elbows, adapters, and couplings to a 3 or 4" hose running about 12 feet downgrade from where the 2" PVC pipe exits the home and at least 10 feet away from the house. Thanks for this video. The professional ones complicate this simple process. I imagine digging the trench will be the roughest part. Have bookmarked this video.

Thanks for the comment.

Nice job. One thing I found I needed on mine is a hole filled with rock under my outlet elbow. I have heavy clay and the straight dirt would clog the drain hole built into the elbow. A two foot deep post hole filled with gravel under the elbow allows the water remaining in the pipe to leach back into the ground by filtering through the pea gravel. The gravel doesn't clog the drainage hole in the elbow.

Thank you for sharing!

In the bottom of the elbow that holds the drain there is a small hole that will weep water into the soil gradually. Also where the elbow connects to the drain pipe is not a waterproof connection so water can drain there also. So initially, there will be water sitting in the low end of the pipe and drain until it can seep into the soil.

Good job on the video editing

Looks like you have good soil in your area. Here in Northern VA with clay soil we usually put a bag or two of round stone under the Pop-up.

Your back filling was very good. It didn't look like you disturbed anything in the end result.

Thanks for the video!

I cut a 4" piece to raise it up a bit from the elbow to get the base level with surrounding soil. I was wondering if this was bad, but still seems to work. I like the fact it has that hole in elbow too to drain the leftover water

Interestingly, all these "do-it-yourself" videos show how to install but none of them show how (and if) they work after installation.

Cool and informative.

There is a small hole the the elbow that holds the pop-up drain. After the lid pops down water will continue to drain out this small hole.

Nice job. You did what the contractor should have done to begin with.

Excellent... thanks for sharing.

I have one and it works wonders!

Nice Video. Exactly what I need to do on 4 corners of the house to get rid of the ugly black perf pipe which is not anchored and blows away when the winds come up. I like how you kept it simple. Question: How does this method fair when it freezes? Does the underground section thaw faster than the exposed portion?

Nicely done. I need exactly something like this!!! Thanks!!

Excellent effort but couple of suggestions. Your pipe should be lower. Top of your pipe should be about 6" deep at the shallowest. This is to protect the pipe. In a flower bed you will likely bust the pipe when you plant things and in a yard you could crush the pipe if you were to drive over it (even with a garden tractor). Secondly, I would have surrounded the pipe with gravel. Should the pipe get a leak, the gravel will keep the water moving so you won't get any wet spots. I am thourghly impressed with your backfill job. Looked like you were never there.

Hi Thelma. You can do it. There is no limit on how far you can run the drain from your house. Make sure you get a slight slope in the pipe away from the house when installing. Try to install in an area where your yard does slope away from the house.

I understand this job was done 10 years ago and processes change all the time, but if you were doing this job again today would you be using some crushed rock under the pop-up so the water can drain there. I like you step by step process and explanation at each step. I have a similar situation where I have a water from a upstairs rain gutter that is routed to the front yard, but no long enough and I need to extend it another 10-15 feet and was thinking that putting up a pop-up would be a good idea. Thanks for the video and I will check out your other videos also.

A trench digger makes the job go faster and cleaner. You also need to put holes in the pipe before pop up drain and gravel under pipe section for some run off below surface.

Wtf. Did it work.

I'm about to do this project. I'm thinking ill make it as shallow as this guy did but I'm slightly worried about the pipe crushing if i ever get a rider mower. I'm considering making a sleeve of pvc pipe over the black pipe for the short run that may get traffic. I'm also gona use some pea gravel to keep dirt out of the drain hole.

If it's below freezing none of the gutters or drains on the house work until the temperature climbs above freezing again.

GOOD JOB

nice!, so why some people use rocks and then covered with the same soil? is need it or not?

You go ahead!

The corrugated pipe doesn't need to be laying in gravel or covered with fabric in this case because water only enters it from the end connected to the downspout. A French Drain, a pipe with holes along its entire length, takes in water, and dirt, which could plug it up UNLESS you cover it with fabric to allow the water to enter, while holding out dirt. French Drains also need to have a bed of gravel to allow the water easier flow and entry as well as a consistent pipe support.

Walking and mowers are fine when the pipe is backfilled, I would avoid driving a car across the pipe.

You should have showed the operation of the drain in action.

just wondering how sturdy is it to walk on top of the covered pipe underground after covering?

I would guess 95% of the homes in this area use the 3" corrugated pipe for the gutter drains. What is your alternative for the corrugated pipe? The pipe will lay flat in the trench if you're careful with the bedding. I haven't had any trouble with the pop-up freezing and stopping water flow. I want the drain to pop-up and water the lawn with the rain water. Adding clay soil is the last thing I want to add around our house. We already have a clay soil that I'm trying to amend with organics.

I'm considering putting a setup like this around the perimeter of my house to prevent water from getting into the basement. I'd need to use an emitter and am wondering 1) if my pipe can lay flat or if it needs to be at a grade leading up to the emitter? 2) does anyone have experience with this solution in the winter? I'm in a colder weather climate and wonder if this would freeze and / or need to be blown out the way sprinkler pipes do? Thanks!

With the corrugated pipe only an inch or so below the surface, don't you have to worry about crushing it if you step on it?

I would really like to see this in action during a rain. What part of the country are you in? Does it freeze? Does the water stay in the pipe all winter?

also, those pop ups, they are not spring loaded or anything so does not take much to open. might be a good idea to put a small dry well underneath the popup for the excess to drain into and away. line the well with a non degrading fabric and fill with a washed rock.

I put in a drain system like this yet I used a 'T' at the end so excess water could go into the ground; however, the water all goes into the ground and never rises to the level to "pop-up" the valve. I think I will replace the 'T' with a 90 degree elbow, as shown in the video.

I have 2 questions - I have one of these installed in our front yard, less than 10' from the house. Should it be farther away? Also, I remember the workers showing me the pop-up, and that there is a little hole to allow remaining water to drain into the surrounding soil. But after rain the pipe is full, and I can't for the life of me find the hole. Should I drill a new one? If there is a hole there, debris must have filled it up, and I don't see a way around that.

Nice video, exactly how I've started. My question is, "What happens if it drizzles and there is not enough water or pressure to lift the cover? Will the water back up, or just sit in the flexpipe?

Doesn't water get trapped inside the pipe? I mean, water is going to push out as long as there is pressure coming down, but as soon as the rain stops some water is going to stay inside the pipe, right?

Stupid question but I have to ask, do they make 2 inch pop-up emitters?

I would connect the solid pipe to about a six foot perforated pipe just before the pop up and lay that in clear stone. That way water doesn't stay in the pipe. When you have a rain day with only an inch or two of rain it's not enough water pressure for the pop up to do its job. Rain water will seep into the ground in the last six feet of perf pipe. When you have really heavy rain days then rain will flow through the pop up and any left over water will seep through the ground naturally.

You need to test it to show it really works.

looks nice and simple. my concern is the debris will clog the pop up drain stopping it from working properly. have you had that issue?

Thanks for video. Do you find that 3” pipe is adequate ? Also, should I put a filter of some kind where the pipe meets the downspout ?

Dude.... how many Valiums did you take before filing this video??? lol, JK. Great video...

Cary, I enjoyed watching this video, but have a question about when you installed the pop-up drain elbow. I have seen on other KZfaq videos for pop-up drain installations where the home owner would also dig a 2-foot deep hole and fill it with gravel before installing the elbow. Is that something that you have heard done by other people as well?

Great video! One question. Does this always hold water, upto where the lid is? I once tried removing the pop up drain, there was some water in there but not quite all the way up to the ground level... I filled it with water (hose) all the way until it overflowed, but I noticed after a few hours later the level dropped slightly.... Where would that water go, there's a gradual slope, does it just evenly distribute itself on the other side?

Would the pop up make a new saggy area in lawn?

Good job but I see it needs a tee on the very end of the pipe water could freeze at the end of the pipe with a hole below with gravel filled.

What holds the lid on so it will not come off frome like a mower

Hello, I recently bought a house built in the 80's and its basically built on the bottom of a slope so we catch run off from my neighbor and the main road; majority of those run offs go thru a swale which i'll explain soon however, the previous owner may have installed a "french drain" along the foundation of the house possibly connected to two rain gutters. I'll go ahead and shovel around tomorrow. But During heavy rain, the channel drain fills over the top, water comes up almost touching the bottom of my front door...and it looks like it may flood the house one day. It drains eventually but the heavy rain floods my driveway which leads to the front door. the swale on the property is about 16 feet away from the house which appears to flow well and right into a storm drain. I'd have to figure out, obviously, if there would be enough fall from the house to the swale to figure out where to install a drain pipe to daylight the water there right? I mean just eyeballing it , id say the bottom of the swale may be level or even higher than the bottom of the exterior walls of the house. How would you drain it out? I was thinking short term solution is to buy a pump. Thank you in advance.

I think I need something like this running away from my house by the curb. One downspout gets a lot of water and leaves an almost grassless, mossy area due to all the water that rolls out onto it. Do you have any kind of filter at the downspout go catch debris?

I'm 99% sure st Augustine will cover that within 2 months of install. I'd surround it with rocks

Ever had to work around cable wires or a gas line? Should I try to dig over or under those?

for people thinking of this. do not install in freezing locations in the world!!! unless you plan to remove it from your cutters and drain and seal it off annually.

The contractor put in a similar thing (without a popup lid...just a rock on top) at my mother in law. However we have some concerns as the water just sits in the end of the pipe. In the winter, would this not freeze and then cause water and ice to build up and back up in the pipe (all the way up to the evestrough) and possibly crack the PVC pipe???

Did you say you were installing a pop up water emmiter at the end of the pipe, so when it rains it will water the lawn? Won't the rain water the lawn?

Hi Cary, does the elbow snap into the pipe for a good connection or its freely connected? Are you still getting good results almost a decade later?? Anything you would do diifferent if you had to do it again?. Thanks for the video!

one point that needs to be made never use ADS corrugated pipe with holes in it next to the house .

Where did you get this popup drain and was the pipe you used a solid pipe with no holes in it? Also, do you have any problems with it getting clogged?

Couple of things; you want to use a pvc pipe because flex pipe has ridges in it that dirt and debris can collect, PVC does not. Also, you want an air gap between your gutter and your drainage system so that if the pipe ever clogs, you are not overflowing your gutters.

You need river valley pipe

the plant is in the way, cant see the connection to the downspout

Iam doing a French system along the side of my detached garage. I live I'm the city and my parents live in garage so water is been getting in there. I was gonna have the corrugated pipe run all the way to street from garage for water to exit but garage kinnda far from where garage is. So my question is if I use one of those emmiter pop up elbows somewhere down the pipe for water to exit, will I need to slope the corrugated pipe down to emmiter elbow so water can escape there if pipe gets filled up with water or emmiter pop up will work regardless of pipe slope?

People have told me that there needs to be a slope in the ditch so that water will run off - I do not see it in your work. Also another tip given to me was; the bed of the ditch should be lined with C6 gravel before putting the drain on it. This will keep it firm and preserve the slope.

I heard pop ups need pressure to let water exit. Because how does water move up thru the elbow and out the pop up?

I need the french drain,and I also need the gutters in the ground away from the house.

Very nice video. Two questions: 1). how deep should I dig if the solid pipe is 3"? Could you give me a general idea? I guess at least 3" of soil to cover the pipe, so is 6" enough? 2).Can I connect to my sump pump pipe? if so, is there anything need to be watch out? Thank you in advance, iScaper1!

How can I keep the pop off valve which is right by the curb, from floating away and down the street?

If the rest of the drain pipe was good I would replace the piece at the sprinkler pipe and route the sprinkler pipe over the drain pipe.

I loved your video. I have 2 questions: Could I use smooth 3-inch drain pipe instead of the black, ribbed pipe? Secondly, could I manifold 2 or 3 drain pop-ups together since I want to connect two catch basins together coming from 2 downspouts? Thank you.

how do I connect the downspout to the Ez-Drain

How about winter have snow on it ? I am living Ontario we have lot of snow here

"Go ahead"

No gravel or fabric? Seems like you pipe will eventually fill with soil and roots. Why not use these materials?

Kerry, what type of grass do you have?

When is necessary to put drain rock under the pipe?

Is this for backyard? If so where dies the water drain to?

Do you do it for peoples house ? I need that for my house

I am running 4" PVC pipe 15ft long for pop up drain. Slope should be 1/4" every 5 ft? PVC/w/coupling will tie into my rain drain that is cemented in running through the middle of my patio extension. Also I see u said something about your elbow having a hole at the bottom of it to help release water. Do u sale any of these materials,pop up drains,pipe? I am worried about the water sitting in the pipe any feedback would be appreciated thanks.

Do you need a pop up drain with EZ- Drain

i`m wondering how the water drains in the winter,when this pipe lays full of frozen water ?

What kind of shoes are those bud ?

I would recommend not using that flexible corrugated pipe. Use 4 inch rigid PVC pipe, with a screen and clean out at the union of the gutter and PVC pipe.

how deep was the trench that you digged?

It would have been a bit helpful, had you indicated the degree of slope of the tubing, all the way into the emitter, and how deep did you bury the tubing. Appears to be only about 6 to 8" maybe? An employee at Lowe's told me to be at least 12 inches, if you will be running a riding mower over the line. The directions of the slope are on the instructions, but in case, the user is without instructions....This was helpful, however, as I start my 30' of tubing within the hour.

Recently my neighbor installed a pop up drain less than 10 feet from the side of my house. The problem is that my ground is lower. Is that mean the water is more likely be flowing or collected in my yard. If so what should I do?