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One of the Projects to solve Driveway Drainage! Seriously! Less than $50. Little bit of Labor, But I Promise it WORKS!

Great video. Do you think this would work as a shed base? Thanks

Amigo você me ajudou demais!
Vou usar aqui tubos de PVC de 100mm.
Um abraço!
Cidade de Brumadinho, estado de Minas Gerais, Brasil 🇧🇷

Brilliant solution.

Perforated pipes only work as an air void if they are left open. When you fill them with gravel there is no more air void so they aren’t really serving their full purpose.

Essentially it’s just pit wrapped with filter fabric and filled with gravel which will also work but just not as well as with air voids for more water capacity.

Smaller diameter sections of pipe laid horizontally would work better without stone filling them (more air voids and still stable)

Cool video though thank you.

having recurring senior moments ??? you kept repeating yourself and it took about half the video time to do so... so ???

The geogrid purchased panels and layering system is 2" high, and costs $08.29 per square foot. Using the 4" perforated pipe, which I would cut myself with a fence on my band saw table at 3" length instead of 4", because this is engineered to be a layered system.

Run permeable after clearing and compressing the soil to be filled, roll out and stake down the fabric (Tyvec is the strongest at $.09 per SF) and layer 2: of 3/4" crushed gravel 2 or 3" thick and compacted, then lay out the grid material, and fill it with 1/2" and smaller gravel, to which I would add 50% mix of the recycled asphalt material (cheap and strong) and finish over the plastic grid with 2" of this prepared gravel asphalt mix at about a minimum of 2" over the plastic grid and plate compact and roll this to a hard compacted level surface and it will fill at about 7" at a cost of around $5 per square yard, and be a easy maintenance surface that can be cleaned up and resurfaced every few years with a Bobcat and minimal added surface material.

I have a gravel sloped driveway that has has a rain runoff problem and it's a multitude of mixed evils every year. The one thing I think I'll try there is to take the perf pipe and wire the pieces together with tie wire of zip ties, just to reinforce them from side movement when it gets wet and heavy traffic in the winter. I'm 74 and getting tired of the mess and the exhausting road work out here every year.

Great video. Just what i needed for a place in my yard and a driveway extension. Thank you!

Brilliant !

When you consider the 500 in labor, maybe just drive around it.

Use old tyres

instead of the smaller yellow pipes you could slit black pipes and curl one edge inside the other to shrink it

elevate
culvert
put in a OVER engineered french drain and a huge rock pit with a sump pump
grade and use feet of compacted sub base on your road

oh, florida. auger pile or dig a suspension bag footer

Great Idea Ill keep this one in mind. Thanks

The nearby earth didn't seem to move either.

Soda bottles sectioned off work too a leather punch can be used to make a bunch of holes too. I would be building it a lot wider so a sort of channel is created like a low flow pipe.

you arent "recycling" if youre using materials you had previously BOUGHT. this also doesnt have the stability of geogrid because the nodes arent connected, you may as well have just filled gravel over the fabric. lastly this wouldnt fly at all in most states because the drain pipe would disintegrate once it got frozen.

See it done using tyres with the walls cut off.

Very smart my man . Something that is attainable. I follow you because I live in an area near the Arkansas River in Arkansas and the soil is sandy . Whenever I try to dig a trench to move water it collapses and fills back with soil. Thank you for giving your expertise. Most appreciated

Florida must have rubber crumb? Ever known a tyre to stay embedded? It looks good, no crunch, keeps on muscling it's way to the surface and never wears away. Even using your grid, it'd work out. I used it on training rings for race horses. After the 1st install, I couldn't keep up. And helps keep the dumps free of non-bio's...

Excellent. thanks for sharing. Would be great to see an update after a few months of use.
Thanks again.
-- Frank

nice

Ahhh this is excellent! I have heaps of this drainage pipe that I picked up for free. I was only planning to use the good pieces for drainage but now I can use the rest to stabilise my yard/drive/parking and garden path. Can’t wait to try it! I love reusing waste materials and solving problems :)

Use old tires instead. It's what they do for mining roads. Simply cut one of the sidewalls off and place it. They make a machine to do it for you.

Good stuff, creative solutions.
I found to save even more In Missouri I've used old carpet that people throw away as an underlayer on top of the super soft clay soil, and it stops the gravel from sinking and it's surprisingly tough and it's last 5+ years so far on a heavy trafficked driveway(occasionally add a little gravel in puddles; I'd guess I used half what you did in the same area of gravel and no pipe. Just throwing that out there.

Nice job very creative.

dude... CHUCK... you are the man! your DIY ideas are just outta this world, man! thank you for teaching me yet another valuable DIY skill as rain season quickly approaches and I anticipate some drainage issues on some freshly regraded terrain

Sufferin’ succotash!

All projects are almost free if you happen to have suitable materials....

My drive is dirt/gravel from 20 yrs ago, and yes, I'm in N. Florida. Also on a slope dropping down and back about 600 ft. on the property. There's sections that have dropped from level on both sides of the drive to about 2 ft down. I have a section in the front that was clayey and it was monstrous to drive on when wet. We got a bunch of broken up concrete and piled it on. It has sunken down about a ft over the years but it is hard with that much concrete buried down in that section. What do you recommend for filling up the 1 and 2 ft drops so that mowing the edges doesn't involve trying to keep the zero turn from falling over sideways? I'm really intrigued by what you have accomplished. I'm a 72 yr old widow - lost the love of my life when he lost the 10 yr battle with stage 4 colon cancer. I need to fix this driveway without it costing an arm and a leg. You've approached your issues and love to hear what you think could work. Thanks in advance.

Won’t that just be a pond with rock in it now? No drainage so it will just stay full of water.

Just put Gravel and the result is the same !

This is not what a geogrid is.... Geogrid got horizontal coherence in each direction, it's called gravel grid, not the same goal.
It will get messy too....and while not expensive it's already too much for the time it will be usefull.

Great info, thanks!!

you could probably do the same thing with discarded car tires. there are tonnes of those and probably free.
car tires are practically indestructible. use a bunch of them and fill with gravel.

Any way to make this biodegradable? Maybe use bamboo instead of plastic?

Decades ago i saw an article in Popular Science or Popular Mechanics showcasing a grid product that had just been patented. You could tamp the grid into your lawn and drive over it without rutting the sod. I guess eventually it was called geo-cell. I like yours better...😁😁😁

Hacksaw to close to the leg. Could be dangerous.

Just get junk gravel from a rock pit (it's cheap per yrd) and then have a small dumptruck load dropped and then have it spread out and you're done.

Chuck, this was fascinating. I had never heard of geo gridding. Great job! Be well. Elaine in NJ

If you have a bigger area to cover; more stability needed for heavier vehicles, you can use tires as well.

nicely done. well thought out. simpler and cheaper 2 pockets cement mixed into the soil at same depth . that would stabilize the soil.

on mining roads they lay down used tyres, tie them together and fill with gravel. the tyres stop the gravel spreading sideways

Never tape back the guard on your miter saw ffs.

You can make porous concrete by mixing gravel with cement and no sand, it binds the gravel but leaves holes for water to pass through. It is super cheap and easy to do. Try it.

Odd voids could be filled with smaller diameter pipe. I like 3" corrugated pipe for some drains, but this looks really good for driveways if it can hold the weight of the car over time. Those plastic geogrids for sale are just far too expensive to be useful.

Считаю что одного геотекстиля и щебня точно было не достаточно, однозначно нужно нарезать перфорированной трубы, а лучше выложить квадратными ячейками айфоны вместо нарезанной трубы, а когда придет время утрамбовать просто включить на них всех режим вибрации и звонить по очереди на каждый. Да и потом тоже приятно же осознавать что можно позвонить на лужу говна) которую ты так заботливо укладывал неведомо зачем так заботливо напиленной на не менее удивлённой этим процессом торцовой пиле перфорированной трубой которая вообще прибывала в шоке. Вот она сила кембриждемозгих....

Who makes the sun screen shade???

Dont they need to be conected together

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