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Deck drain extension
Posted on 5/12/25 at 7:33 am
Posted on 5/12/25 at 7:33 am
After 7 months, it finally rained some in South Florida. My deck started to flood yesterday with all the water. The ends of my drains, on both sides, are getting covered by the mulch and stopped up. I hand dug this out so it would drain.
Do I need to extend these drains or just keep the ends clear of mulch? Did not seem to be a problem last summer (my first year in this house) but it was raining a good bit to keep them cleaned out
Do I need to extend these drains or just keep the ends clear of mulch? Did not seem to be a problem last summer (my first year in this house) but it was raining a good bit to keep them cleaned out
This post was edited on 5/12/25 at 7:49 am
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Posted on 5/12/25 at 8:20 am to LanierSpots
The easy fix would be to attach a low profile drain extension like stealth flow (Home Depot). These are designed to sit on the surface beneath the mulch. You might have to engineer an adapter if the connections aren’t compatible.
The better fix (long term) would be extending the drain underground to a French drain (or dry well) with a pop up emitter.
The better fix (long term) would be extending the drain underground to a French drain (or dry well) with a pop up emitter.
Posted on 5/12/25 at 8:21 am to LanierSpots
could you post a blurrier picture please? 
Posted on 5/12/25 at 1:57 pm to Motorboat
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could you post a blurrier picture please?
The cage made it blurry because it was pouring damn rain and my deck was flooding. Had to go out there in the rain and dig it out. Not a lot I could do about that.
Posted on 5/12/25 at 4:58 pm to LanierSpots
This is the area. What I am thinking about doing is removing all the mulch between the pavers and the gutter down spouts, digging out some of the soil below there and filling that area in with some kind of decorative stone/rock and slope it away from the pool fence. Maybe also put the rock under the downspouts and in front of them so the runoff from the down spouts do not dig a hole in the yard.
Posted on 5/13/25 at 8:51 am to LanierSpots
You could dig out the area under the end of that channel drain and place a basin underneath to catch it. Then knock out the hole in the basin on the opposite side of the channel drain and run you some 4-6" pvc underground away from the house to a pop-up if you have enough fall.
Posted on 5/13/25 at 9:53 am to GCTigahs
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You could dig out the area under the end of that channel drain and place a basin underneath to catch it. Then knock out the hole in the basin on the opposite side of the channel drain and run you some 4-6" pvc underground away from the house to a pop-up if you have enough fall.
Great Idea. I have a pond in my back yard that is not far from there. The best thing would be to run it there but I dont think the HOA will allow that. Im pretty sure of that. My friend who does irrigation said the same as you. Run it into a pipe some where. I would just worry that when my drain on my deck clogs and I need to clean it out, having it piped somewhere would make it harder to clean out.
Posted on 5/13/25 at 11:58 am to LanierSpots
I think most of the debris that would make it into the basin would get caught at the bottom of the basin since the discharge pipe sits a few inches from the bottom. But that brings up another thought. If you do put a basin under the channel drain, make sure it's deep enough that you have enough clearance between the basin grate and channel drain so you can remove the grate when you need to clean the basin.
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