Pull the underground drain which is often a black corrugated plastic pipe away from the end of the downspout.
Bypass my in ground gutter drain.
You can also hire a professional to tap into an underground drainage system if you have one installed on your.
When leaves lay on the screens they create a flat mat of sticky debris which also aids to stop the water from entering the gutter and cause it to bypass the gutters altogether.
Place the end of a plumber s auger also known as a snake into the underground.
Disconnect the gutter downspout from where it connects to the drain pipe.
Letting some of the water drain into the ground as it moves down the pipe keeps the total amount of water at the end lower which means less chance of.
Remove the guard at the other end of the drain pipe if there is one.
For the garage i used a downspout adapter without a leaf guard since there aren t trees close enough for that gutter to get clogged up.
The water simply drains into the ground at the end of the underground downspouts.
To do this i cut the black corrugated pipe added a t and aimed the pipe upwards to the downspout.
Since my in ground pipe ran right past the garage i had the garage downspout dump in as well.