When rainwater exits your downpipe it should enter a gully.
Where do my gutter drains go.
Obviously our situations may or may not be like yours.
Many of these pipes are placed underground to avoid the eyesore of pipes laying on the ground next to your house.
But the water could still puddle next to the foundation.
An underground drain pipe can become clogged in a variety of ways including leaf buildup or damage to the pipe itself.
At our house the downspouts go to buried terra cotta pipe that takes the water out to an opening in the curb so it drains down the gutter.
The buried downspout drain line shown at left is one that we d recommend abandoning it connects to a drain line that enters the building through the foundation wall and passes below the basement floor incorporating a basement floor drain ultimately connecting the the sewer line.
A rain gutter drain pipe is usually installed to carry water away from your house.
But to get there the surface water has to first leave your guttering.
Your home s main gutter system gathers rainwater from the roof line and controls its path down the house to ground.
Well that s the idea anyway.
But with a house that s about 90 years old and terra cotta pipe.
This method is also called dry well soakaway pit or drainage well and consists in excavating a part of the ground usually 3 feet deep 3 feet wide and 3 feet long.