Monthly Archives: October 2018

Lift Station for Water Drainage Problems Using Commercial Sump Pump Basin

2018-10-17T12:09:31-04:00By |Categories: Sump Pump|Tags: , |

 Lift Station for Water Drainage Problems Using Commercial Sump Pump Basin We just put in a lift station and I just want to explain how this repair worked. This was a drain that would catch all the water. This is an apartment complex and this happens to be their handicap unit.  So, there's the ramp. All [...]

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Sump Pump Line to French Drain System to Drain Yard Water

2018-10-16T15:45:37-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , |

 Sump Pump Line to French Drain System to Drain Yard Water We're installing a sump pump line to a French drain system. I just wanted to show you what the system looks like.  Everyone is a little different. They're tailor-made the hall a lot and the conditions. The soil here is low percolation, so we [...]

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Drainage Filter Fabric Installation for a French Drain System

2018-10-15T19:15:02-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , |

 Drainage Filter Fabric Installation for a French Drain System When you go to do your burrito wrap or your French drain system, you want to make sure not to overlap. I've seen drains where they do a heavy overlap. The water flows through this filter fabric just fine. The filter fabric always has a gallons [...]

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Two Residential Underground Downspout Systems

2018-10-13T20:24:31-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|

 Two Residential Underground Downspout Systems I wanted to go over the two underground downspout systems that we run an offer for, residential use.  For the DIY guy, hopefully, this helps. We're going to start out by covering the single wall. The single wall is really easy to work with. It's very pliable. It's just amazing [...]

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Use Water Drainage Systems for Outdoor Living Spaces to Avoid Problems

2018-10-11T21:33:00-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , , |

Use Water Drainage Systems for Outdoor Living Spaces to Avoid Problems When you build an outdoor living space, you have to be thinking about drainage.  Always think about the flow of the water and if what you're installing is going to interfere with the flow of the water, damming it, go ahead and build a drainage [...]

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Corrugated Pipe 101 – The French Drain Man Sets the Record Straight

2018-10-10T16:46:17-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , , , , |

 Corrugated Pipe 101 - The French Drain Man Sets the Record Straight Today we're going to set the record straight on corrugated pipe. For years and years, I've been seeing this picture shared. Now I understand that the public and the average homeowner doesn't know the difference between the pipes. They hear a couple of [...]

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Channel Drain Failures and Why We Love NDS Mini Channel Drains

2018-10-09T16:03:16-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: |

 Channel Drain Failures and Why We Love NDS Mini Channel Drain I want to talk a little bit about channel drains. I want to keep it simple and I want to keep it short for you guys. I've been going out on a lot of appointments and I'm seeing work that other guys have done [...]

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Underground Drainage System – Downspouts 101

2018-10-08T16:43:31-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , , , |

 Buried Downspouts & Underground Drains for Roof Runoff With all the different pipes to choose from, for a homeowner, it can be quite overwhelming. I'm hoping to clarify why we use the pipes we use how we use them and when we use them.  There's three that I use exclusively and then there's several that [...]

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99% of Yard Drain Systems will Include a French Drain

2018-10-05T17:06:21-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|

 99% of Yard Drain Systems will Include a French Drain 99 out of 100 residential yard drain systems are going to include a French drain. We're up high on a hill. All the water collects right in the swale between the yards. You can see this yards built up to a big collection area. We've [...]

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Complete Yard Drainage System Using a French Drain

2018-10-04T19:27:50-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , , , |

 Complete Yard Drainage System, Yard Drainage Contractors, French Drain We're working on a project right now. The neighbors went in together on the side of the homes, on both sides of this home. The neighbors split. You can see that we have the drain in. We still have to pin the fabric and put the [...]

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