Water jetting under driveway

[larboc]

So I bought an old farm house the driveway runs alongside the house and the sidewalk between the two is the low spot and water gets trapped. I need to run a drain line under the driveway and I dont want tig up really nice asphalt. Anybody ever used a water jet hose attachment with PVC pipe and pushed it under anything? Boring company wants to pay for his kids college on a 20' long 2" piece of pvc.

I've done shorter runs under train tracks with a shop vac. Hook shop vac to one end and slowly work the other end of the pipe through, empty shop vac, repeat. Worked really well with sandy soil and no rocks bigger than the pvc. I sharpened the end of the pipe to help cut roots, not sure if it helped.

 

[Lincoln]

If there are plans to tear it up later I would run smaller poly and make sure the catch basin screens out trash. It won't be super fast draining but it should work.

I haven't used a power washer to do it but I would assume it would work way better. 2" may be easy.

I just remembered when I did mine I ran the hose and nozzle inside the pipe and attached it a foot behind the nozzle. It was alll contraptioned up. Once through I pulled the hose out.

 

[Here4memes]

Without a pic and some sort of drainage area to figure out what we are talking about here, or knowing what you are fully trying to accomplish, I'm going to go ahead and stick my neck way out anyways...

A 2" pvc across a 10' wide or better driveway will never last without clogging with debris. A 4" would work if you maintained it regularly. The least I'd ever waste my time and money on is 6" for any kind of storm drainage. And gas pipe is the best shit ever for this.

And for a 6" I'd do an open straight saw cut, trench it, lay the pipe, backfill with compactions and then a good pavement patch and be done. Have the people who initially paved it come back and patch it. I'd say they could do it and you not even notice.

 

[Splib]

I've done shorter runs under train tracks with a shop vac.

Holy fook. Where was this and what rail line ? Most commercial RR are very very very very very militant and strict about any encroachment, never mind undermining a track that could derail a chemical car. Many are patrolled by helio and the RR actually have armed LEO for trespassing fuck ups that impinge on RR property. What exactly are you talking about ??

 

[Tin Roof]

Holy fook. Where was this and what rail line ? Most commercial RR are very very very very very militant and strict about any encroachment, never mind undermining a track that could derail a chemical car. Many are patrolled by helio and the RR actually have armed LEO for trespassing fuck ups that impinge on RR property. What exactly are you talking about ??

no shit. it takes a few months to get approval to even trench next to a track, even worse to bore under it.

 

[Splib]

He must have been dealing with abandoned RR.

 

[larboc]

Holy fook. Where was this and what rail line ? Most commercial RR are very very very very very militant and strict about any encroachment, never mind undermining a track that could derail a chemical car. Many are patrolled by helio and the RR actually have armed LEO for trespassing fuck ups that impinge on RR property. What exactly are you talking about ??

Lol, let's just say it's privately owned and smaller than what you're thinking.