How to Install a Sump Pump Discharge to Prevent Failure We're installing a new sump pump discharge line and Clinton Township, Michigan. I want to go over a few things. I want to show you why it failed. I want to show you what we're doing to prevent failure. We're using four-inch schedule 40 the [...]
Best Downspout Pipe for Underground Drainage Systems - French Drain Man, MI What is dual wall corrugated pipe? Seems like nobody's talking about it. Everyone wants to bad mouth corrugated pipe when there's no slope. Oh, they say all the debris is get caught in it. It's smooth on the inside. That's dual law. You've [...]
Yard Water Drainage Tips - Never Fill In Collection Areas / Swales You never want to fill in your collection areas. I run appointments and I'm still hearing it time and time again. People want to always fill in their collection areas. What I mean by that, we have this pool yard and to code [...]
Using a Sump Pump / Lift Station for Lake Lot Yard Drainage We're on Lake St. Clair and we're in Chesterfield, Michigan on a lake lot. We're setting a six-foot lift station. We went around this home with a curtain French drain because water was finding its way into the house and we built a [...]
Geo Fabric and French Drains the TRUTH - The French Drain Man This is a video I've been meaning to put some time aside and do for you the homeowners, the DIY guys, and even the homeowners that are shopping for a drainage system. What to ask for, what the tell your contractor you want. [...]
Downspout Drainage System - Avoid This Mistake I see this advertisement all the time. I see these diagrams all the time for ways to filter out the leaves and catch the water. So I want to explain to you why this is not a good idea. Why we do not practice this type of installation. [...]
The Anatomy of a Gravel / Stone French Drain Installation We are installing a stone French drain or a gravel drain. That's the catch basin we cored through the sidewall and connected to. This is a French drain grid. This entire area was completely saturated, it's really flat. If you tried to run just a [...]
Pump Stations, Lift Stations - How They Work To Drain Communities That's pump one. This is a pump station. It's designed to where there's alternating pumps that pump the water. What a pump station does, well, in this case, we have done a lot of drainage in the area. All the properties that we built [...]
Why French Drains Need Geotextile Fabric I'm always talking about how you need a Geotextile non-woven fabric to act as a soil separator from your stone. Here's the perfect example. We've been contracted to put in a new French drain. The old French drain quit working. You can see that the stone migrated into the [...]
Best Underground Drainage Pipe for Roof Runoff Water We're in beautiful Rochester, Michigan. We're installing a drainage system for roof water, roof runoff, water. We're putting in a drainage system for all the downspouts. We're running them underground because as high as this house is, it just goes to show you that you have to [...]
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