Hello,
My house, which sits atop a steep hill, needs to have some of the downspout drainage fixed. One of my downspouts, the previous owners installed just a small section of corrugated pipe, but didn't run it all the way to the side of the hill. Now there is a small sinkhole developing where the water dumps out. The other downspout just off to the side of this one just had some rubber dispersion thing that is now all torn up. I had a foundation company tell me they could link the two downspouts with corrugated pipe, then run the pipe out to the side of the hill and install a pop-up drain. They want close to $700 to do this.
I am not very handy, but part of me feels i can easily do what they were talking about doing for much cheaper. I would just like some advice on what I need to use. Also, if I do install a popup drain on the side of the hill, I'm worried about the amount of water that might flow out. My neighbor's house/yard sits at the base of this hill. The foundation company was going to run the pipe a much longer length and have it flow out the backside of my hill so all the water would stay on my property, but that's probably going to be more time and skill than I want to mess with. I'm just wondering if I could get away with running a pipe straight out from the downspout, and install that pop-up drain on the side of the hill. But I don't want to piss my neighbor off! Any advice is appreciated. I am including some pictures so everyone can see what I'm working with.
My house, which sits atop a steep hill, needs to have some of the downspout drainage fixed. One of my downspouts, the previous owners installed just a small section of corrugated pipe, but didn't run it all the way to the side of the hill. Now there is a small sinkhole developing where the water dumps out. The other downspout just off to the side of this one just had some rubber dispersion thing that is now all torn up. I had a foundation company tell me they could link the two downspouts with corrugated pipe, then run the pipe out to the side of the hill and install a pop-up drain. They want close to $700 to do this.
I am not very handy, but part of me feels i can easily do what they were talking about doing for much cheaper. I would just like some advice on what I need to use. Also, if I do install a popup drain on the side of the hill, I'm worried about the amount of water that might flow out. My neighbor's house/yard sits at the base of this hill. The foundation company was going to run the pipe a much longer length and have it flow out the backside of my hill so all the water would stay on my property, but that's probably going to be more time and skill than I want to mess with. I'm just wondering if I could get away with running a pipe straight out from the downspout, and install that pop-up drain on the side of the hill. But I don't want to piss my neighbor off! Any advice is appreciated. I am including some pictures so everyone can see what I'm working with.