When and where does the drainage care begin?
If a mother asks a child psychologist when to start educating and educating a child, he usually answers "Yesterday".The same can be said about the drainage system on your site, if a thought emerges that it would be necessary to provide some kind of care.
If you have not started from the first day, this, of course, is not a disaster, but timeliness has never harmed. So, when care begins for drains - comments are superfluous. But for what to undertake, here it is necessary to outline for itself certain rules.
First, by installing drainage wells on the site, use them for their intended purpose at least once a week, examining for sediment. Each such outlet must have a cover on the surface, which protects the drainage from getting into the garbage. Secondly, in any case, do not be curious about the condition of the pipes during the storm wind, a lot of foreign particles can be applied to the well, not the smallest ones.
Every autumn, be sure to remove the pump from the collector, although if the well is submerged in the ground, this rule can neglect the
Drainage cleaning from possible deposits of
Without X-ray vision, you can hardly find out what is going on in the drainage system hidden under a thick layer of soil and gravel. Therefore, even if inspection of inspection wells will give a satisfactory result, every several years requires thorough drainage cleaning, or rather, its flushing. For this action, we will need several consecutive exits, from which the very first can be the release of the pipe by several shaped parts. We will rinse the system section by section.
For a good washing, we need a powerful pump, preferably not a manual pump, and also a thick hose such as a hose that we will connect to the drain. We start from the very first outlet, directing a powerful jet into it.
On the idea, if some kind of nanos was formed, it should be washed away, but we are incredulous people and so after several dozens of liters of water are pumped into the system, go to the well and attach the hose to the end of the section being treated. Now the jet strikes back, and the supposed deposit, sorry for the tautology, is dealt a crushing blow. We fix the result by the third washing from the beginning. Similarly, we proceed with the rest of the sections located between the next wells.
At the last stage of washing of each section, the water jet should be directed towards the collector, so that the washed out deposits are washed away towards the accumulator.
Drainage repair is a responsible task
Every landowner is perfectly oriented on his plot, and even within a year can specify, to within half a meter, where the drainage pipes are laid underground. However, it is necessary to assume in advance( let's call it foresight) the probability of repairing the drainage system, which can be damaged due to undermining and subsidence of the ground or because of excavation, negligently started nearby.
And preventive measures should not be planted above the deep-water drainage, maximum that is permissible - laying turf or roll turf , which, in essence, is almost the same.
If a problem location is known, repairs will not be difficult, especially if PVC pipes are used that connect with special couplings. The drainage is simply unearthed, the geotextile unfolds, if it was used, the gravel is raked, the damaged pipe or spoiled overtake is removed, after which a replacement is installed, and everything is buried as it was.
However, if you find out where the system went wrong, it was not possible to unearth the whole gully, therefore perennial plants above it are undesirable, because they would have to be ruined for the sake of necessity.
