Monthly Archives: April 2018

French Drain Man Explains Why Yard Drainage Systems Fail With a Pipe Sock

2018-04-27T00:22:06-04:00By |Categories: Michigan French Drain|Tags: , , , |

 French Drain Man Explains Why Yard Drainage Systems Fail With a Pipe Sock I want to talk about why we don't use a pipe with a sock on it. What homeowners and contractors are doing instead of lining the entire trench to create a fully contained French Drain System, They're going to use this pipe [...]

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Do NOT Use Pea Gravel, Pea Pebble, Pea Stone When Building a French Drain

2018-04-27T00:10:16-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , , |

 Do NOT Use Pea Gravel, Pea Pebble, Pea Stone When Building a French Drain When building a French drain, you want to use a coarse rock that has been screened and washed. The rock that you see in this French Drain is 3/4" and larger. You end up with large voids that'll move far more [...]

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French Drain Man ” We Simply Build a Better French Drain”

2018-04-26T23:32:48-04:00By |Categories: Michigan French Drain|Tags: , |

 French Drain Man " We Simply Build a Better French Drain" When installing a French drain system, you want to have men in the trench on a laser level making sure that you get that bottom, you want that bottom perfect. If you leave an area that's two inches high after all this hard work [...]

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Why We Need Yard Drains, French Drains – Macomb Township, MI

2018-04-26T23:19:25-04:00By |Categories: Macomb Township French Drain|Tags: |

 Why We Need Yard Drains, French Drains - Macomb Township, MI We're in Macomb Township, Michigan, installing a French drain system. Wanted to talk about the slope that the developer leaves you with. When the engineers design a subdivision, for example. And they have to account for slopes. On the east side of Michigan, we're [...]

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Yard Drain, French Drain System Install in Oakland County

2018-04-26T23:10:01-04:00By |Categories: Oakland County French Drain|Tags: , |

 Yard Drain, French Drain System Install in Oakland County, Michigan You always want to have a guy on laser level. You want to make sure as you're digging the trench, that you have the right depth and slope, you need to drain the yard. When we're digging a French drain system, we always have a [...]

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French Drain vs. Drain Tile in a Residential Yard in Michigan

2018-04-26T22:46:22-04:00By |Categories: Michigan French Drain|Tags: , , |

 French Drain vs. Drain Tile in a Residential Yard in Michigan Once in a while, I get asked why does a farm field work, that's tiled? Why wouldn't that work in a residential backyard? So I'm going explain that to you really quick. Compaction of soil Is one thing, the farmer tills the top surface [...]

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