Black or white is recommended for sunbelt regions. FDM recommends black for those living in the North. Black gathers light and heats up during daylight hours to help melt freeze ups.
FDM’s Not Quite a 90 fitting for maximum flow rate.
4 in. x 12 in. Dual Wall Riser for Clean Out
3½ in.Corrugated HDPE Male Snap-on Coupler with fasteners
Northern Climates:
Black is recommended in the Northern Climates because the sun’s radiant energy heats the black vented Cleanout during the winter to help cope with freeze ups. It doesn’t prevent freezing. It helps with the thawing process of frozen downspouts.
Sunbelt Region:
Both Black and white will perform great in warmer climates where freeze and thaw cycles are less common.
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Customer Reviews
Kevin Chih-Yang Wu1 week ago
Update 08/2025: Just got my roof shingles replaced and I am glad I have these French Drain Downsprout cleanout installed. After a rain pour, I decided to go clean up and I found over 30 roof nails all caught in the plastic line guard/filter. Glad they are there as these nails would have just sat in my drain pipes or worse yet, drain out on the small creek where some of kids play. Super thankful for these.
I am a Youtube follower of the French Drain Man channel and ordered 5 x Downsprout cleanout leaf filters. The quality of the product (Made in USA) is top notch, I know they will last years to come.
I finally got the chance to install a couple of the French Drain Man's Downspout Clean-outs with Leaf Filters that I bought from them last year. They are very functional and look great IMO, so I'm buying more along with several more of their drainage products. Very happy that these products have been conceived, designed and made in USA. Thanks FDM!
We recently have had The French Drain man complete 3 underground gutter drains, with downspout cleanout, catch basin, and pop up drain. They were installed under cement walkways already in place. From the moment they arrived you could see they were very organized and meticulous about their business. They have what they do down to a science. There was no guessing as they had a plan in place for our yard before they arrived. They used top notch products, and completely put everything back and cleaned up as if they were never there. Thank you French Drain Man.
I purchased (5) of the French Drain Man Downspout Cleanouts with Leaf Filter and am very happy with the product! They are well designed, well manufactured, and look nice on our house. After three months of use I am very happy with the performance. They do a great job of filtering leaves without affecting water flow, and have no external splashing. I will be ordering additional filters for all of the downspouts on our house.
They have everything I needed to really do my downspout drainage right. With the downspout cleanouts, catch basin and excellent pop-up emitter I can now handle Florida's summer thunderstorms and get the water far away from the house. Excellent training videos to help a DIYer.
The leaf filter arrived on time and looks very nice and solid. The opening is slightly larger than the 2x3 downspout pipe making it easy to fit. The bonus pipe joint is very pretty and versatile allowing corrugated to PVC pipe so that I don’t need additional joint. Compared to big box and local landscape supplies, the French drain man products are just much much better. Really hope there is a distribution center in California to give people access to the well designed and built storm drain pipes.
Recently purchased the downspout leaf clean out. Was very easy to install and anticipate it making cleaning out downspouts and storm drains much easier.
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