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With all the different pipes to choose from, for a homeowner, it can be quite overwhelming. I'm hoping to clarify why we use the pipes we use how we use them and when we use them.  There's three that I use exclusively and then there's several that I won't go near and we'll touch on it all.

The number one pipe for me as a single wall corrugated pipe. The reason why this pipe ranks number one with me is that I can run it in one piece. It's not a pipe that comes in sections. It's not a pipe that has to be glued together. It's one from the adapter that goes on the end of the gutter downspout all the way.  It doesn't matter if it's 30, 40, 50, 60 feet. I don't care as long as it's installed correctly. You run into a popup and you can run it to a. I liked these sixinch catch basins to, so those are the two that we use.

Why is it so important that it's one piece to me with all the trees and all the shrubs and residential landscapes, roots, roots are what takes out an underground drainage system. Roots are the Kryptonite to an underground drainage system.  So your argument can be, well, we're going to glue the pipe together. We're going to glue all these sections together.

Here's the problem we face in the north, in the Sunbelt region you guys don't deal with this, but we deal with this. We have to get this pipe down 42 inches or deeper for it not to see the effects of frost and freeze and thaw. That's impossible in most cases. That's not realistic.

Running an underground drainage system in your backyard, you're not going to be beneath the frost, and here in Michigan you're gonna see that pipe go through all types of stresses. Hydraulics, we can get geeky and go to the math and figure it out, but this pipe is virtually indestructible.  It's very flexible. So as the freeze and thaw cycles occur, it can move as one and come spring, it returns right back to the original slope at which it was installed.

Now, this pipe has been given a bad rap and I want to go over that real quick. The problem is when it's installed wrong, it will collect the breeze and I'll explain why. This here has been circulating for a while and it's the most misunderstood part about the drainage community. It's as a homeowner, you're left to think, what do I. What do I believe? Well, I'm just going to give it to you straight. It's as simple as this. When the water comes out of the trough and it drops into this downspout, that water is accelerating all the way into the point to where it enters the underground drainage system.

At that point, you want to maintain slope on this pipe so that you can keep up your acceleration. You want to keep up your velocity, you're never going to get it back. If you run this pipe flat, as it loses velocity, you're not getting it back. It's lost. So the key is how it's installed, it has to be installed on a slope. If it's installed on a slope, it'll maintain velocity, which flushes out leaves and tree seeds and shingle gravel. [..]

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