Solving a Bad drainage install - no more basement flooding
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- čas přidán 11. 04. 2024
- The previous drainage person made things much worse with the basement flooding issues. We go in and coax the problem water to flow away from the house and solve all the flooding issues.
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The gutter guys are awesome. They should start their own channel
Imagine having the confidence to do a job completely wrong and take someone's money without losing sleep over it.
Happens all the time
Ignorance is bliss for some…
@@edwardgarrison2377 Yep, it's unfortunately common in today's society.
You just described all levels of government
That is NOT confidence, that is gall. That is arrogance. That is a sociopath.
Always awesome when we get a new Gate City vid, especially on a Friday! Thanks Shawn.
Thank you Ryan!
in shocking how some people don't appear to have a grasp of the fundamentals of drainage. that's why everyone should watch your channel
Gutter guys know the definition of "Everything is a hammer" 😅
Haha! Yep!
It is so satisfying to watch a nice person doing a professional job.
You finally brought yourself a new truck! You deserve it.
Those gutter guys are on point son...........
they know what the hell their doing. Another great vid
I've been working with them for at least 8 years. They're the best.
So good to see someone who has expertise and pride in their craft. So many crappy contractors out there right now. Kudos to you and your team.
Thank you Chatt!
Reason number 12 why Sean (Shawn??) is a good dude. This video was what? 75 minutes? Half of the video was Shawn (Sean???) just showcasing another company doing their work. He didn’t have to do that, especially since the algorithm skews towards shorter, multiple videos.
He touched on it at the end too: good people or contractors attract other good contractors.
Those two gutter guys make a good team! They Hustler and they’re very efficient.
I'm a drainage fan! I was obsessed w/ pipes at 2 yrs old, I can watch this all day, keep it up
Tired of waiting all my life for another video lol im excited today! Ummmm please book and hire this crew for our viewing pleasure 😅
I have several videos I need to get published. They take about 8 hours to produce, so I need to find time.
Not the movie night I was expecting, but a welcome one! From Friday night already in Australia!
That gutter install is top notch. Obviously your work is as well that goes without saying.
Yes, as well as great work, those gutter installers go FAST. Lots of experience in that crew.
1+ hour. It’s like seeing a double episode of the A-team announced 🎉
the comment about measuring once and cutting twice at 57:35 reminds me of something my friend says: "i've cut this board 5 times and it's still too short!"
They've obviously never seen your vids Shaun. The two things I know about drainage: 1. Don't use perforated pipe, 2. Take the water away as much as possible!
OLD SCHOOL IS A GREAT HAND
Nice work. Good to see professionals at work. Because of you I have 4" PVC taking my gutter water to the woods. I rented a trencher and put the pipe deep.
Great work, Shawn; made it look easy. The gutter guys seem really good to work with. All the best.
When I hit the Powerball I will pay you, the equipment and your team the trip to Puerto Rico to work on my house.
I like the black gutters... it's like good line work in a drawing.
Ditto
Sean you have taught me so much about drainage. I'm from New Mexico and 90% of people don't even have gutters and it doesn't matter 90% of the time. I see so many youtube "experts" who will have a video putting in a french drain for no reason and will lead to problems. I know why that's bad and so many other things.
Great work Gate City!
The gutter guys oh my gosh: mentos container full of screws, take a couple in your mouth and then use as needed. LOL
Again, Shaun, I like the video. Ronald is a hard-working guy but then again so are you and the gutter guys , man it is to see people who know what they’re doing👍👍😊
Absloutley love Ronald ❤️ love seeing him in the videos.
Love these longer videos with so much good pointers and how to follow your step by step system. I applied your tips to my homestead working great.
That's awesome Hana! Keep that water flowing downhill and away 👍
Another amazing job, looks great. I followed your advice and work practices and did my own drainage line here in Va. It's almost been 3 years (May 2021) and my system is still working great and no flooded side yard. I emailed you the videos back than. I appreciate you sharing your knowledge. Keep grinding.
Ahhh the tried and true benefit of corrugated pipe 6:55
Easy to cut so you can throw it away
I probably would have gone with brown gutters. That’s the popular colour around me, since there are lots of brick homes.
gate city doin it again - nice job lads
Watching ol' mate install the downpipe behind the tree talking about the snakes... Here I am thinking jeez this dude REALLY loves his Mentos... Then I was like ".... OOOHH!!!!"
That’s where I store my zip screws! Probably not healthy but what is these days!😂
Wow, it is nice to have a great drainage and gutter video on my day off! Both teams did a great job! You had some awesome video work with unique camera angles! Great job!
Yes, sir, you can be super proud of your excellent work. Indeed!
Thank you!
Amazing, I love long videos
Thank you! This one ended up a bit on the long side. I'm glad you enjoyed it!
The mesh screen works fine. I clean mine once a year. Takes maybe 10 minutes to do the whole house. Most of the debris tends to collect in a few spots where theres heavy traffic of water, mainly along lines on the roof where lots of water flows through.
Thanks for showing the gutter install. I had the same issue with shingles and needed to trim as well. Also trimmed to 1/4 inch over hang.
Also thanks for the mesh advice. I’ve found mesh works great in parts of roof hard to reach - I use leaf blower about 2 times a year and it keeps them clear. Can’t use mesh where lots of leaves collect.
Everything can and will be a hammer 🔨 in the right moment!
Black gutters here were an improvement.
It looks like the person lacked the ability and knowledge of materials and how to execute a plan to move this water off the property.
I know there is way more to it than what we see but seriously, these other contractors just need to watch like one or two of your videos and apply what they see and their work would be 100% better than it was.
I think the black gutters and downspouts look sharp. Especially when contrasted with that white siding.
They look great 👍
I love the black. Very stylish! Interesting job!
I like it too Leslie!
I sure learned alot on this one Shawn. It depends on the color of the house trim to determine the color of my gutters.
Those black gutters are very sharp, looks much better than I thought it would!
29:57 "This is not a system you want to forget about on your house" This is generally true, especially if you have no communal rain sewer up to the house and generally have mostly shoddy drainage.
Here in Germany, most houses' drainage is piped directly into the rain sewer. And if the pipework is good, then you actually can forget about it as it always flows.
There are exceptions of course... and my parents house was one of those:
Two adjacent gutters were piped into four buried and connected IBC containers. They had no overflow and the piping from *both* gutters going to the containers was backgrading and full of silt. How do you even manage to do so, and that was PVC pipe mind you.
This system was probably done to have free water for watering the garden. But considering you only need to do that for about three months of the year, while *all the other time* your house is litterally *swimming due to constant rain* in the northern German flatlands, this doesn't seem like a well-thought-through idea. Especially as that wasn't the only rain water collection system.
For nine months you had to watch out for the water level and turn the pump on. No float pump, as the opening holes to the containers weren't big enough. Also you shouldn't let the water level drop too low, as the soil would push in the thin walls.
Around three years ago we had enough and dug those up. Wish we could have used an excavator, as digging soaked soil by hand is not fun, but there was/is no easy entrance for any size machine. Got only to half the depth, which wasn't made easier by the one inch thick *styrofoam* board insulation between containers and soil. Who the h€ll does that?! That's just insane...The soil doesn't freeze here. Of course it had desintegrated by outside pressure (years) before.... Trying to fish every little ball of styrofoam (and there were at least two 60L trashbags full) out of the hole had us all not amused...
We didn't dig deeper, as the soil down there was just mud and ground water filled up that hole too fast, bringing in more mud.
So we cut the top half of that mess off, filled back in with dirt, ran new PVC pipe (correctly, as I was a follwer back then already 😉), added a new catch basin to the front door walkway, as it was a paved retention pond and ended in the already existing rain sewer line.
I had to learn how to repave that walkway with those small ~2x~2 inch natural rock paver stones. That was fun, but it took me about two weeks on and off to resurface those 4m² as I was "employed" on other home improvement projects. Layed a brick vent well in that drainage area as well, so our fire place and furnace vent wouldn't flood anymore.
Now it looks a lot better (isn't marshland anymore) and water actually drains now. No problems there ever since. Also never had problems with the correctly piped drainage in over ten years living there. Now only the pond keeps overflowing, as it is the lowest point in literally the whole neighborhood and never had a drain/overflow... But that won't be my or our problem anymore, we (my parents) are planing to move - hurray.
TLDR: Story time: If you get your engineering diploma and have "great ideas" for things, doesn't mean they are actually great. There are so many more "engineering solutions" in that house that are just messed up (said engineer built/planned the house in '84 by himself)....
Also: Know good people -here: drainage contractor- for solving your problems, otherwise you get exponentially more, as also shown in this (and other) video(s).
That's pretty interesting. We have stormwater management here but nothing for personal property unless the homeowner wants to do drainage work.
"most houses' drainage" is not a proper phrasing, not technically wrong. "most homes drainage" would be the better choice here.
just a small thing, english is english.
@@jmwintenn Mimimi...
Thanks👌😉
Hello from IRAN
3:42pm
Hello Mostafa!
Looks great, the contrast of the black actually looks much better, glad that took care of it the 1st time, im sure the owners didnt want to lose the whole front to a total overhaul
I love these videos! I learned so much about what's going on. I know it's a lot of work to film, edit, annotate, and upload videos, but they are wonderful. Thank you.
Thank you! posting videos to youtube turns into a sick popularity contest and it gets old after awhile. I am trying to keep motivated to make these videos. This one took about 8 hours.
Great work! Simple solutions seeing the water be taken away are the best solutions.
I think so too Joseph!
Going with one good tradesman leads to other good ones to work with. It's finding the first good one which is sometimes difficult. Cheers for another example of fine work.
Love your videos
That pipe did exactly what it was supposed to do...
It convinced the Homeowner that the Shyster they hired was doing the Job they told him to do so he got paid...
Thank you for sharing!
As always great work!
I love your work! I love your videos! Wish you were in my area
Great job Shawn as always. I think black gutters look amazing.
Same, they look great!
Great job. Well done!
These videos are amazing. thank you Shawn
Great work Shawn, you’re point about moving a problem form one spot to another thinking it will solve the issue is spot on. I do enjoy your drainage assessments and the way you explain the method to your madness so to speak.
Another good video. Thanks
I've been following your videos for some time now. I also deal with yard, crawl space and basement water issues and I cannot tell you how many times I have run into the same exact scenario as this video. The idiots that think throwing down organic fill and grading for drainage is actually going to do something is staggering.
I bid a job, they go with the cheap estimate, sometimes a third of what I bid and they end up calling me back again. The other so called companies, usually landscapers, have no clue how water behaves, moves through soil, etc...
I feel for the customers but I often have to spend an inordinate amount of time debunking what the other guy states will fix the issues and have to resort to science and visuals to demonstrate it.
As a side note if someone goes with another company I will offer to come out free of charge and inspect their work.
Well done and you're someone that actually has an understanding of how water interacts with our lives!
Looks like the previous drainage person really dropped the ball... and flooded the basement instead! 😆
Good job Shaun 👍
Thank you Martin!
LOVED IT! good stuff as always!
I can only imagine the amount of time it takes to shoot and edit these videos. Thank you!
I like the black gutters, I have black chromed wheels for the car! Real nice Shawn. There must have been a big tree, which shaded the house and yard. Stump grinding yes, fix the front yard drainage and get a beautiful lawn. I love the coated seed, growing in nicely.
I like harvey's concrete jobs!
Yeah that was a really good video. I really enjoyed that one and that black gutter and downspouts. Yeah I look good with that black roof. Good job. I can see why people you use you and your eavesdrop guys good work. 👍👍🇨🇦🙂
I'm on the fence...think I'll go with brown gutters next time.
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Another great video! Where you guys end the 4" PVC pipe at the road and pile rock around it, if I was your customer I would want a small precast concrete spillway. The spillway have 5" tall lip for pipe to pass through and the lip would feather out to nothing, spillway would be 4' long - this idea might be custom precast piece.
Thought you might have facilitated some fall with a higher connection at front door downspout ? Great gutter crew. Nice job Shawn and Ronald. 👌
Lol, I was like, "That guy has a serious addiction to those Mentos." Not realizing immediately that it held his screws and he was popping one or two in his mouth at a time as he was anchoring that downspout behind the tree when they were talking about snakes @53:51
Hello from germany
Good they allow you to go along, a LOT of contractors do not like to have 'participation' as in they may 'cover up something' ? ?
Job nicely done! 👍
I'm not one that would want to hurt a business, but the "work" done by that previous contractor is so blatantly irresponsible it becomes an act of malice, and if you don't feel you're in a position to expose them here, I am hopeful the homeowner will have let everyone on that street know who they are and what they did, and word-of-mouth will travel far and wide so as to reduce the number of new names on their customer (aka unsuspecting victim) list.
At time 20:50...you create your fall by having a vertical pvc pipe that is at least one foot up off the ground. That vertical pipe will have enough force to make the water flow when it rains. Note: you may have some water that is stuck in the vertical pipe...due to the lack of normal fall. No one will notice that some water is stuck in the vertical pvc pipe...this water will be pushed out on the next rain event. This house has enough gravity flow to flow away off the property by gravity only. Blue Sky's.
Amazing what black gutters and downspouts can do to modernize a house!
Greetings from Washington DC
Good morning!
Those black gutters looked great on that house.
Good video as always.
Thank you Tor!
Nice
I think that gutter along the front, near the front door needs another downspout or increase the size and like you said, take it AWAY from the house, did these people before, were they landscape people, does not seem like they understand basic water flow.
Those were leaf filter gutter guards. Company say they come with a no clog lifetime transferable no cost guarantee...
Definitely not “Leaf Filter”. The product is called E-Z Flow. Still requires maintenance about twice a year by simply blowing off the top. If you find a 100% maintenance free gutter guard that works please let everyone know who makes it so we can all enjoy.
looks like they expected the downspout to discharge on the left side of that T where they scraped that little channel, and then put the perforated along the foundation to try and catch any water that may be going towards the house. Looks like the thought process at least, but def not a proper fix.
I’ve had corrugated pipe in a house for 10 years. It’s not the material all the time it is how it’s used
Shawn on the longer straight runs of pipe like the ones in the front yard does it make sense to connect all the sections of the pipe on the lawn and then drop in the trench and make final connection after everything is glued ? It seems like it would be easier to keep clean and link sections at surface then drop in trench. Great work as always!
Shawn….. nice content, BUT your subs are asking for videos on the building and details of your new shop. Please
Florida guy says catch your water up High from the roof water via the downspout...and as long as you send the water thru sealed pipes...it will drain where you want it to go. I would cut off 3 to 4 feet of the bottom of the downspout pipe so you have a sealed pipe taking the roof water to the street...and "gravity is the force that pushes the water to the street". Your catching the water so low from the roofs down spout may work poorly because you are not catching the water up High "where gravity is your friend" and forces the water to flow. Good luck and Blue Sky's.
There is no need to force the water anywhere. It flows downhill.
So did all the black marks from that mini skid steer get washed off that nice new concrete driveway? Never understood why some people don’t put wood or something to protect the concrete.. love the videos have been taking lots of notes so when I do the rear of my house I do it right. Keep up the great work and videos…👍👍👍
20:10. My dude just slaps that thing right between the rocks 😅
haha 👍
That black soil u removed is good for planting or for a yard for top soil. Good black soil
It's good for growing but not for drainage issues. I think I'm the only one seeking out clay.
Don't you have pvc gutters and down spouts in the USA. Standard to use in UK. And downspouts always go into main drains or a soakaway system.
“Disappearing problem water into the ground” is unfortunately the law in Atlanta 🤦♂️😂 I do a lot of Flo-Well systems . . .
We have clay subsoils here so drywells don't work at all. They just instantly fill up and you're back to square one.
@@GCFD they don’t work here either! Georgia has nothing but red clay. But it’s the law in city of Atlanta anyway haha.
17:40 i think it's an improvement, but dirt isn't meant to be packed against the brick like that
The driveway should have been poured all the way to the house to begin with.
I agree. That concrete was awful.
That pipe distributes water around the foundation!
Satan's hot dog 😂😂😂😂😂
How many years warranty ,Shawn..😂😂❤❤
a big dry well might be a solution
Are brick veneer houses in your area built without weep holes in the bottom course of bricks? Piling dirt above the foundation would not be allowed in the South!
It's a matter of solving the basement flooding and covering the weep holes, or leaving the weep holes open and dealing with a flooded basement.
I've lived in Dallas and Houston for fifty years - nothing but black gumbo (clay) here, and it's NOT waterproof! Yes it will deflect water as you say, but those weep holes will never dry out (as they're designed to do) if you keep them covered. That can't be good for the framing lumber behind that brick.
I refer my gutters to blend in but I think that is just a matter of personal taste.
Another great video as always. Question - you mentioned that if your plan didnt solve the basement problem that you would come back and add clay / regrade the front. Would you charge extra for this? I'm dealing with a waterproofer now and am trying to get a sense for what is standard practice.
Water like's a smooth pipe to flow threw. I'm not a fan of that corrogated pipe. It's a waste. Carry on guy's.