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Anyone hear ever installed one?

My front sidewalk has a step down, then up to the front porch. The step down slopes away from the house, over time it gathers mud and pooling water. I'm wanting to install a channel drain and concrete pad to build this area up closer to the porch. The existing sidewalk and new pad will slope slightly to the channel drain.

Most of these appear to be designed to connect to PVC. I'm wanting to use the black corrugated french drain pipe. Extend it from the sidewalk around to both sides of my house. I'll cover with mulch/straw. I will also connect three gutters to the system as well. The goal is to remove the step down/step up and eliminate the muddy sidewalk in that area. The gutters, etc are just extra, might as well do it right while I'm there.

I also plan on installing a PVC pipe under the sidewalk to route flower bed drip sprinkler lines and flood light cords through.

My question is, can the corrugated pipe be used instead of the PVC in this setting?

I just installed one next to my backyard patio. Prob didn’t need one this wide but I thought it couldn’t hurt.
I went with a 5-6” one. Prob should have done 3”. Concrete saw, busted out, installed drain, mortar mix the cracks, then I left both ends open to drain.
Put white slag rocks on both ends to handle the water and keep from washing.
Got it at lowes.
They sell a cap if you only want one end open.
https://imgur.com/a/rph1Soc

That's similar to the one I'm looking at. But I want to connect a pipe and route elsewhere. All the videos and instructions show PVC. I'd rather use the corrugated like I said. Just don't know if it will work as well.

I had one at one time. It was capped on one end and the other end was a cap with an offset hole downward to a pipe connection. Pretty sure the black corrugated pipe fit right into it like a pvc pipe would had. Dirt on the pipe held it in place. If not, we used an adapter from the pvc fitting to black pipe. Worked well. I bought it at Lowes quite a while ago. Google shows me the NDS Spee-D and it looks exactly like what I bought.

Get something like this placed on the end of channel drain. May take a little redneck engin-earing. (Channel drain pipe connections may be your go to)

They make pvc to corrugated pipe adapters

At our old house, we put one at the interface between our semicircle drive and the short walk to our front porch, it was connected to black corrugated piping routed on the downhill side around the house and terminated in the side yard at a square drain box that acted like a bubbler to disperse the water where it could easily drain. Worked pretty well to deal with summer inundations, the area in question would drain naturally just not as quickly as I wanted.