How to Build a Dry Well Soakaway and Leach Line the Right Way for a Roof Runoff System 2023

We're going to show you how to build a dry well soak away. You don't want your soak away to be right next to the house because you don't need all that hydrostatic pressure being put up against the basement wall. You also don't want the water through capillary action to make it back to the foundation of the house
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How to Build a Dry Well Soakaway and Leach Line the Right Way for a Roof Runoff System 2023
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[@JamesStorm-md5ho]

Perfect! You make some of the best instructional videos on the internet.

[@FRENCHDRAINMAN]

Thank you

[@michaelmillsap952]

Great info!!!!! Top notch work as always, just finished a outdoor sump pit with the Micro Screaming Demon !!! Keep the videos coming !!!!! Merry Christmas !!!

[@nateiowa3359]

Great video! I may actually have the confidence to DIY this.

[@jamesrichard6458]

Thanks for great info 👍 Respectful suggestion I see a lot of videos where people are sawing, drilling, chipping and nobody's wearing safety glasses. Take it from a guy that almost lost one of his eyes safety glasses should be worn. Your guys did a great job!

[@FRENCHDRAINMAN]

We work with HDPE otherwise I would agree. When the guys are coring through concrete storm sewer I do wish they would wear glasses. At the end of the day it's each grown man's decision. Help is hard to find so it's a employees world right now. Can't run off the help making them do something they don't want. Again everyone is an adult an they have to live with the consequences good or bad.

[@kentoakley9409]

This question maybe too much for here and if so can do a consult if needed. I live in Houston Tx area. I have heavy clay based soil. Right now we are getting heavy rain and I have on one side of my house water pooling during a heavy down pour and the ground stays spongy for months until it dries out. When I say along one side of the house, the ground is sloped from the house to the fence line. So the water is pooling along the fence line. I want to put a french drain in this area but here is the problem. During the summer when we don't get much if any rain this clay based soil contracts, pulls away from the house foundation (slab on grade) and the fence posts, so bad this last year it look like fault lines in the ground. In fact I took and packed top soil along the foundation to fill the gaps. Now I do have in ground sprinkler but even running that 3 x a week didn't stop it. Because of this over time it has may the fence post loose and they were leaning. So I have replaced the fence post and fence along this side of the house. My original plan for the dry season was to put inground watering system around the foundation and along this side of the fence. Both of these systems will need to run in the same place. So do I put the french drain over 12in deep and have the inground watering system 4in about the top of the gravel on the french drain? It is recommended to put an inground watering system 8in away from the foundation and about 8in deep in the ground and yes put gravel around the pipe with it all wrapped in fabric. Or run them side by side? Because of how they have sloped the ground around and between the houses re-sloping the contour of the ground so that the pooled water is a couple feet away from the fence line isn't a viable option. Great videos, thanks for your help. Oh one last question where can I get the high octane drainage pipe? I have looked into having it shipped and it cost as much as the pipe. Again thanks for the videos.

[@FRENCHDRAINMAN]

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[@coachanthonyburgos3971]

I’m thinking about doing a dry well for an outdoor kitchen sink drain. Which of your pipe should I get, perforated or solid?

[@FRENCHDRAINMAN]

Solid pipe to the dry well.

[@QuillPictures]

@@FRENCHDRAINMANis Schedule SDR 35 pipe good to connect downspouts to dry well? It’ll be running under an asphalt driveway. I’m in New England. Thanks!

[@johnnygalvan845]

How many drywall barrels can be used in a given space? This project is for a single downspout for a large roof to soak away pit. The pit has pretty good percolation, I’m thinking about doing a 6 ft x 6 ft x 4 ft deep just to hold more water for drainage then run a single overflow leech line 20 feet away like your video. Also do you sell those dry well chambers? Thanks for any info!

[@FRENCHDRAINMAN]

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[@tonykn]

Love the look behind the scenes, thank you! Quick question, what's the frost line where this was installed? I'm at right about 48" and I'd love to do something like this for an indoor sump discharge plus 2 ill-placed downspouts if I can get away with it. I've had the above-ground discharge line back up on me in the winter due to freezing at the outlet, though, so I'm worried about ice damming at the base of the dry well and/or the perforations in the line.

[@FRENCHDRAINMAN]

We have to go 42" to be below frost

[@tonykn]

​@@FRENCHDRAINMANsafe to say then that the knife-cut lines aren't at risk of causing ice damming during a hard freeze? The dry wells in this video clearly go down below frost but the knife-cut doesn't, I just don't know if there's ever a worry of small ice forming at one of the perforations and causing subsequent water to dam and freeze if we get one of those weeks where it doesn't get above 0

[@jesseh147]

I live in Louisiana where it obviously rains a lot. My town does not have storm drains so that’s not an option. A housing development was put in that re rerouted ALL the run off. It’s forms a literal creek that flows within 20 feet from my house so a soak away is not an option either. I plan on putting in a French drain at the houses edge and maybe open vents at the property line to prevent water racing towards the house during heavy rain. I think I have a decent slope and am hoping I can just discharge back into the creek back away from the house using your pop up emitter. Moving is undoubtably the best option but need to survive this a bit longer. Any ideas?

[@FRENCHDRAINMAN]

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[@danielsolie7425]

Another great video. Where do you find a drywell like that? Seems like the NDS is the only one I could find. Looking for something bigger. Thx

[@FRENCHDRAINMAN]

Buy 24" Dualwall pipe we sell the solid cover and pipe. The pipe is hard to ship tho so buying 24" pipe locally is best.

[@trelaskillz]

I enjoyed this video. Running into a similar problem with a sump pump that is moving roughly 30 gallons a day (in non rain events) and more during the rain events. Heavy hard clay yard and creating soggy grass and wet river down the curb to the storm water drain down the road. I’ve been trying to solve the issue myself and thought a drywall would be a good idea. However, it fills it up in a single day. Do you think adding 2-3 more dry wells would be the way to go to hold more water? The problem i’m running into is how slow the water is being absorbed into the soil compared to how much the sump pump moves. IN my mind, adding a dry well may not solve the problem at all. I could add a leach perforated drain to leach some of it out and pop out down the yard a bit, but i feel like it will just be creating the soggy ground again once all the dry well’s fill up. Any suggestions without knowing all of structural or property issues?

[@FRENCHDRAINMAN]

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[@ktm3850]

How deep down is your overflow leach line with emitter? Do you slope your overflow or is it a straight run.

[@FRENCHDRAINMAN]

The main key is not to build your drywall at the lowest point of the yard. Because you want the emitter to be able to run down the grade.

[@ktm3850]

It's definitely a nice setup. I like the dual wall 24 as well. Very strong. What i dont understand is that if you have a 100-foot run main of 4in to drywell from downspouts, that would put you down at 25 inches when drilling a hole in a 24-inch dual wall. (.25 inches x 100) slope is 25 inches at the end plus about 8" down from leaf filter. Isn't that too deep and taking away capacity? I'm really confused about that. Do you have a video on that concept

[@nathanlothamer4570]

I'm trying to find any videos where you lay a sump basin emitter/grate from a downspout on top of a french drain pipe.

[@FRENCHDRAINMAN]

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[@FRENCHDRAINMAN]

This video was before we had our own pop-up emitter V2.0 as well as our solid Blue Armor Pipe. It's easy to follow this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/q4WQimCknNd3d8k

[@nathanlothamer4570]

@@FRENCHDRAINMAN No, this isn't the video - you had a video where you brought a downspout line into a sump basin on top of a french drain line. Which one was that?

[@johnnygalvan845]

Will the soakaway well work with clay soil?

[@FRENCHDRAINMAN]

It all depends on how much water you are dealing with.

[@bearmorris9821]

Because of the drastic price difference, I've heard of people using the heavy duty 55 gallon plastic barrels with holes drilled in them instead of the 24" culvert pipes. Any thoughts on that in terms of functionality and durability?

[@FRENCHDRAINMAN]

It's a hack that will work in some cases.

[@affinity1]

Is the open bottom pop up emitter no longer recommended for roof run off?

[@FRENCHDRAINMAN]

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[@Rob-ns9hd]

Is there a cover on top of the dry wells ?

[@FRENCHDRAINMAN]

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[@kev5782]

garden art, sculpture. tomayto, tomahto

[@FRENCHDRAINMAN]

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