I’ve noticed what look liked a snake hole in our garden for a couple years, and thought it was odd but never really investigated it. My father-in-law looked at it last summer and pointed out that it was actually a broken pipe. I didn’t know this, but the downspout empties into a PVC pipe that runs out to the street. At some point, that underground pipe was busted and water running through it was causing the ground to wash away and cause the “snake hole!”

I took this week off work to get some work done around the house, and this seemed like an easy enough task.

Step 1 - Dig a big hole around the pipe

Step 2 - Cut out the busted part

Step 3 - Bring a good helper!

Step 4 - Extract cut-out pipe & clean edges

Step 5 - Insert new pip, make sure to use PVC cement!

You might be wondering why I used a Y connector. Part of our back yard gets a bit soggy, and it’s been hard to keep grass growing in that area so I have plans to trench that out and put in some corrugated drainage pipe. So the plan is to connect that up with this drainage pipe so that everything runs out to the street! That project (the trenching) was actually #1 on my list for this week, but it’s been raining just about every day in April and hasn’t let up this week so no digging unfortunately.