Talk of The Villages Florida - View Single Post - Underground Drains
View Single Post
 
Old 06-22-2023, 05:22 AM
westernrider75 westernrider75 is offline
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2020
Posts: 459
Thanks: 156
Thanked 315 Times in 180 Posts
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Michael 61 View Post
I added a birdcage about a month or so to my house, and the contractor added a gutter as part of the project, with a downspout that empties just about an inch or so from the concrete pad my AC unit sits on. I guess I should have questioned this at the time. This week, I had gutters added to the rest of the house, and the gutter contractor showed me that a hole is already forming from the downspout that the birdcage contractor added, and told me it will just grow larger with time, encroaching on the concrete pad my AC unit sits on. The gutter contractor is coming back today to install an underground drain on downspout next to my AC unit, as well as one as another underground drain on the downspout at the front outside corner of my garage. Just curious, do most people have underground drains installed to manage the rain runoff from their rooftops?
We have a downspout on the front outside corner of the garage that runs down the driveway to the street which is the same set up that most of our villa neighbors have. In back we have a large drain in our yard, again each villa has one, and the downspout run towards that drain.