The drain tile behind half our house originally drained at the corner of the front retaining wall, and then over the sidewalk, creating a certain amount of gunge during wet periods. When we did the other half of the house this last Spring, we took up two sidewalk portions to run the lines out to the gutter, including redoing the original layout at the retaining wall. I didn’t have time then to hook up the new outlet to the original drain tile, just stubbing it under the sidewalk to do later.
Later arrived yesterday. When we dug up the tile, I found that I didn’t have the space to run the T from the 4″ perfed line, a reducer to 3″, and the 1/8 bend needed to tie into the 3″ under-sidewalk drain line. No one seems to sell a bushing that works like the bushings in galvanized pipe, so I made one. It turns out that two short sections of rigid plastic drain line, cut down to nest into the 4″ pipe like Russian dolls, with another circle of plastic kitty litter container (I imagine milk jugs or plastic soda bottles would work, for those who can’t get their heads around the idea of a contractor’s cat), will accept a 3″ rigid coupling/fitting exactly. I was able to cut the progressively smaller circles tight enough that I’m not much worried about losing water (the pipe-to-coupling joint is way looser than what I wound up with).
I used up a minimal inventory of curse words to finish the installation – felt kinda nice.
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Talk about outside the box thinking... I like it.
There wasn't a rubber no-hub fitting that would have worked?
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