Things You'll Need:
- Shovel
- Large rocks or broken pieces of brick
- Small rocks
- Soil
- Long drainage pipes
- Slit drainage pipes
- Sand
- Water
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Step 1
Create a soakaway which will accumulate water from drainage pipes. This should be situated at the lowest area of your field or garden. The soakaway must be 3 square feet and 4- to 6-feet deep. Fill the first 2 feet of the soakaway with things like large rocks or broken pieces of brick. Then have 1/2 foot of small rocks. Cover the last 6 inches with a layer of soil until it is level with the rest of the ground.
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Step 2
Use flexible and lightweight plastic drainage pipes for the drainage system. Use sand to make a small line along the area you are thinking of laying the pipe. Dig up some turf that is 5-inches wide and 15-inches deep along the primary drainage line. It should be going at a decline from top to bottom.
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Step 3
Make sure the trench is working correctly by putting some water in the hole. If the water goes all the way to the bottom of the hole without stopping, then the trench has been dug correctly. Put a layer of stones about 1-inch deep on the bottom of the trench, and put the drainage pipe on top of the stones.
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Step 4
Keep laying stones in the hole so it surrounds the sides and top of the drainage pipe until the trench is 4-inches deep. Cover it with the soil that was dug out of the trench until it is level with the layer of turf.
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Step 5
Dig slit drainage passages for the slit drainage pipes. These passages will be 4 inches shallower than the main passage, and it will stop above the primary drainage pipe. This will allow the water to go out of the side passage and run off into the primary drain passage and into the primary drainage pipe and into the soakaway.
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Step 6
Lay the slit pipes on sand and fill in the area around the sides of the pipe. Cover the area with turf and soil.
