Perimeter French Drain Around Elevated Patio in Macomb Twp., MI We're in Macomb Township, Michigan installing a French drain system. This is a perimeter drain it goes across the backyard to the storm drain catch basin and we're also doing the side yard where there's a high concentration of water collected in this green belt [...]
Always Use an Excavator When Installing a French Drain in Michigan When installing a French Drain System, always use an excavator. An excavator will create a really large channel that you can later fill full of stone. This will remove water uninterrupted. Do not use a trencher. Systems that are put in with a trencher [...]
A French Drain Done Right Does Not Need Inlet Drain to Take in Surface Water Here's a completed French Drain, with the last piece of sod yet to be put in. You can see how the channel, full of stone and pipe, is fully contained by a filter fabric. This is to prevent any contamination [...]
How a French Drain Can Remove Water From The Soil Below The Surface We're in Macomb Township, Michigan installing a French Drain System. We ran the French drain through all the lowest points of the backyard so that we can collect all the water. We're not just collecting surface water, we're also grabbing up all [...]
Footer Pipe to Dry Well in Washington Twp, MI I'm in beautiful Washington Township, Michigan. Beautiful lot. It's an older home but it's been kept up. It's in fabulous shape. There's a footer pipe. And there's never been a sump pit. Because the water just runs in the sandy soil. The water just drains down into [...]
Home Depot Perforated Corrugated Pipe vs The Pipe The French Drain Man Uses Our French Drain pipe versus Home Depots. When you go to Home Depot and you buy their perforated pipe, what you're buying, and this is April 2018. April 2018, I just bought this pipe from Home Depot just to do this video. It's three [...]
French Drain to Reduce Soil Saturation in Macomb Township, Michigan We're installing a French Drain System in Township, Michigan. You don't have to have standing water to need a French Drain system. The rate at which water absorbs into the soil, the percolation, or perc rate, as it's known, is a very slow rate when [...]
DIY French Drain Project Having The Right Materials Matter - The French Drain Man We're in Macomb Township, Michigan installing a French Drain System. All of the water was running off this elevated patio into the planting bed area, making a mess of everything. The bark was floating away. The plants were going to die. [...]
French Drain Man: Back Yard Drainage System in Michigan to Reduce Soil Saturation We're working in between two homes. The house next door is much higher than the lot that we're working on. Water always lays between the homes and they can't get the water to evacuate. It's too flat, there's not enough slope. But [...]
Yard Drainage System Install - Never use a Pipe with Fabric on It We're replacing a drainage system that was done with a perforated corrugated pipe that had a sleeve or a sock on it. Basically, when you just put in a pipe that has the fabric around the pipe. And then you pour pea stone [...]
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