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Originally Posted by jayerose
We may have made a mistake.
We attached a Poly Drainage Tube from the downspout under the rocks and ended it at the green popup.
The tube has holes in it so to test it; we put water down the gutters from a water hose and the water never drained from the green popup.
BUT the rock section was soft as all the water came out of the tube before reaching the popup.
So, we are looking at replacing the tube to one with no holes but how far should we bring the other end?
thank you.
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I like the idea of the pop up, it's a nice neat looking installation. If you don't mind the work move it forward to the corner of the two walks when you replace the underground with solid pipe and see if that works. It may wash out the stone in the bed and you could still end up with a soggy soft spot at the pop up. If the pop up doesn't work I assume you have gutter above the column shown in the second picture, you could cut a new downspout in at the column and extend it out to the concrete as others have suggested and cap the existing downspout inside the gutter and just leave it so you don't have a messy hole showing at the old downspout location. You may need to change the pitch from the old downspout to the new. Good luck.