Dry Well Installation

What normally happens in drywells is that they cannot handle the amount of water fed into it.

Dry well installation. The typical dry well installation cost includes materials such as a prefabricated dry well made from plastic or concrete pipe lids fittings drains and rocks as well as labor charges to dig the necessary trenches install the dry well and connect all the pieces. Essentially a dry well takes the water coming off of your home when it rains and drains it away from your home to a tank and gravel pit that is designed to handle large amounts of water. This is just a bog. A dry well system typically consists of a buried drain tile running from a catch basin at the water source to a collection container some distance away.

If the soil type doesn t perc really well this is what you create. There is no reason why with a little effort you can t install one of these on your own. A drywell acts as a holding place for water. Assuming your soil passed a perc test you ll want to position a dry well or two on storm water s natural drainage path through your yard but keeping a safe.

This is a great example of how dry wells don t work in areas that have poor percolation. Shovel a 6 inch deep layer of washed inch rounded stone into the hole. Install the dry well photo by ryan benyi. Backfill around the dry well with stone.

I opted to run my french drain into a dry well at the end. A dry well provides an excellent means of drainage for both gutters and low points in your yard. It sits on a bed of 3 4 of gravel and is surrounded on its sides by about 6 of gravel. Dry well installation basics.

Cover the dry well with soil making sure you don t bury. Install a pop up valve into the dry well cover. Place the dry well in the hole making sure the end of the perforated pipe extends into the dry well. The well consists of a 55 gallon plastic drum 35 on craigslist with holes drilled in it.

A basic system is easy and inexpensive to install. The condition of the soil number of dry wells to install and location of the. Well if you don t have sand just really great soil percolation. The idea behind it is good in theory but when put into application it doesn t really work that well.

A dry well is an excellent way to divert water runoff from your roof away from your home and yard. The only thing that s going to fix this is to dig up that dry well. Water collects inside the cavity and drains gradually into the soil in the area. In the project shown here a perforated plastic drain tile connects to a dry well fashioned from a plastic trash can that has been drilled.

Set the plastic cover onto the dry well and tap it down with a rubber mallet.