The coupler is leaking, which should not have been such a disappointing surprise because I forgot until it started dripping that only one side of it is sealed with silicone. I’ll fix that after lunch.
First thing I did was trench in the drainpipe, because that was going to be the physically hard part…
Then I laid out, measured, cut, bashed to fit, snipped, wiggled, hammered, filed, swore, and went up and down a ladder a million times. At the end of which…
And then the test, which is either the fun part or you spend the rest of the day drinking and swearing…
Ta da! There’s still tweaking to do after lunch: I have to cut the pipe to length, fix that one leak, and there’s obviously some dirt work. But the gutter is effectively done.
There’s a pond waiting to be made at the end of that drain pipe and then tilapia fingerlings and then a fish taco neighborhood gathering
Right, I’ll get right on that.
Will you put a screen at the end of the pipe to keep critters out of it and plugging it up? I would surmise that would make a dandy home for critters.
Yeah, I might. But I never got around to doing that to the one in the rear and so far the rats haven’t made me regret it.
What anonymous said. Fish tacos are supposed to be really yummy. And if not an immediate favorite of the entire neighborhood, enough beer and Jack Daniels will revise opinions quickly.
RE: screening the end of the pipe. I lost 2 drainpipe extensions to coyotes before I got smart enough to make hardware cloth screens for the open end. They chase some small critter, probably mice, who runs into the open pipe and the ‘yote proceeds to chew and dig his way up the pipe to get to the mouse. Doesn’t get it, of course, but a couple feet of pipe gets ruined and has to be dug up and replaced; one was the flexible corrugated pipe, the other was ridgid PVC. Keeping the little critters out saves the pipes.
I’ve seen little homemade top-hinged flappers made to hide the open ends of various pipes. They are so arranged and counterweighted that they stay closed until water pushes them open . . . sorta like a one-way pet door.
Done properly, they don’t get clogged up with trash like screens do.