The BAD AST Project - Faze II

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I got out and got busy about 8am this morning...
My yard is made up of yellow and blue clay covered by more yellow clay. The digging wasn't too bad with the ground as wet as it is. I had this done in about a half hour.

Everything was dug out by 10am or so. Didn't go to bad. Kept plugging away at it.

Towards the house.

This was pretty tight working in here. You can see the downspout on the corner of the house. This ties into the drain also.

After we had it all dug out we ran into Durand and got a 100' roll of 4" currogated drain tube, a few connectors and a cap so I can seal off the "in" pipe.
I put a 45 on the end of the "in" pipe with a short section of PVC stubbed into that. Drilled a 2" hole in the cap and shoved the stub into that. Once this is buried it won't come apart. It also should keep "junk" from migrating into the tube.

Used a "Y" to connect the down spout to the main drain.

I don't like how those connectors go together always seems to be a leak point to me. I ran a heavy bead of construction adhesive around the tubes and jammed them into the connector. We then wrapped the joints with that poly stretch packaging wrap.

Seems to have worked well. I have been watching it when the pump runs and have seen no evidence of a leak...
What a mess... We were finishing up in the rain so back filling will happen later. I want to keep an eye on the joints anyway and there is a little more leveling we need to do so it is good.

All told this took us about 5 hrs to do and that includes running to town for the parts... I was showered and having coffee at 1.
Have a nice weekend and please keep my pore blistered hands in your thoughts...
Mark