Plumbers?

[gumflapper]

hi guys

im wondering if any of you guys on here are plumbers. basically i want/need some work done and i cannot decide which way to go. below are some images that show my problem

as you can see my drains cannot seem to cope with 10 minutes of rainfall and whoever built my house did a shit job with landscaping. currenlty im looking into french drains but am not toooooo sure about it.

ill explain what i want done/are thinking about in much more detail when required.

thanks

adam

[madbung]

Qld??

Talk to god.

Just did my fathers drainage at his place in noosa last december (some holiday), same as you he had standing water and a lot of it. The solution was 5 pits stepped down to the road and a butt load of open gutter drains near the house with pipe work to tie all the shit together. Tools required 1 shovel, i pick, 1 level and some string. Took 3 days of off and on labour, probably 14-16hrs work by myself.

Edited February 13, 2012 by madbung

[gumflapper]

yeh... im aethist so god probably would not want to hear from me lol

the problem with my place is that im below the street (JUST) so all of my stormwater and sewerage go back down the block (1,200m2) and from what ive gathered most of my underground pipes are under concrete. half of the problem is that the concrete is not leveled (imo) correctly to move the water away from the house

[sneakey pete]

By the looks of it you might be able to get the water out of there without cutting concrete. a few drain entrances next to the concrete with a pipe to the lower ground or something.

[gumflapper]

By the looks of it you might be able to get the water out of there without cutting concrete. a few drain entrances next to the concrete with a pipe to the lower ground or something.

images 1 and 2... ive already done that. it does drain away eventually

[sneakey pete]

Bigger drains? cut some grooves in the concrete to get it to the drains maybe?

[Mick_o]

Gunna have to cut the slab and put couple of rain water outlets (generally bout 200mm round or square with a lil gal grate on top) in or get some arco drains (black poly grates bout 100mm wide come in 1m lengths) put in and hook them up into your existing stormwater lines. Do your gutters overflow in the rain? If so might be worth chucking an electric eel up the pipes or at least have them inspected with a camera to see whats going on on the inside mate.

[gumflapper]

yeh i put in a drain here

which helped quite a bit but now its mainly around the front of the house (high ground) and the existing stormwater pipes have been concreted over (according to house plans)

i do have an electric eel like this

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/20mm-100mm-Dia-Electric-Plumbing-Sewage-Drain-Pipe-Cleaner-Machine-S-/270906035928?pt=AU_Building_Materials&hash=item3f13420ed8

however the cutting head on it is not... good enough

[Mick_o]

The camera option maybe worth while mate if the water still isn't getting away if its tree roots blocking the line try another head like the spiral looking head which will screw itself into the roots and hopefully you can drag them out

[Chris Rogers]

had a similar problem and I am below street level. two runs of 5" pipe down both sides of the property with 4 square drains down each side of the house . it used to take 3-4 min of solid rain to flood the place. now its 30-40min of the same rain. I think I am 2-3 ft lower than the street.

took two of us about a week to do and about $500 in materials.

used a fair bit of sock and ag pipe as well. that and a decent layer of crushed rock about 6-10" under the top soil. the ditch is FULL of crushed rock as well. using that in itself drains that area quite well.

does that help?

[gumflapper]

that does help chris thanks

but the problem with my place is that both sides of the house have quite a few large palm trees (that i want to get rid of anyway), both sides have a fence and a fair bit of concrete...

its not the work thats the problem but the lay of the land.

gonna have to pull some trees down first.

that last image, are those flex pipes tied in to your downpipes?

so who here is a tree lopper?

[Chris Rogers]

that does help chris thanks

but the problem with my place is that both sides of the house have quite a few large palm trees (that i want to get rid of anyway), both sides have a fence and a fair bit of concrete...

its not the work thats the problem but the lay of the land.

gonna have to pull some trees down first.

that last image, are those flex pipes tied in to your downpipes?

so who here is a tree lopper?

yes.

the whole lot feeds into those pipes. the down pipes, ag pipe and yard drains.

the original 3" main pipe would not handle all of it. the 5" does.

[Chris Rogers]

further point : the first shot with the digger:

there was a garden there with a pergola and that made a major mess when it rained - that is all gone now.

[Chris Rogers]

the flex pipes are a maze of pipes running under the entire yard. misunderstood what you meant initally.

[gumflapper]

what do you mean their a maze of pipes running under the yard?

[Chris Rogers]

all of that black flex pipe and sock is crossed about every 15ft or so into a + fashion. it all terminates at the one point in the last photo.

the result is a fairly quick draining yard.

[PWND]

shot of my old car

looking good. i miss it with its working air con, sound deadening and stereo

[gumflapper]

still goes good aswell

[gumflapper]

how much did it cost you to get that mini excavator in to dig your trenches chris?

[stompy]

Cut the palms down yourself my old man and i took down about 15 of those big ones at our old place using an axe and some rope. just dont let them land on anything you dont want broken cause they weigh a lot.