Yearly Archives: 2018

EZ-DRAIN From The Home Depot vs Stone French Drain Part 1 of 3

2018-08-28T16:49:35-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , |

 EZ-DRAIN From The Home Depot vs Stone French Drain Part 1 of 3 EZ-Drain versus an all stone French drain. I'm going to do a quick review on that so that people know what to expect out of the NDS EZ-Drain product. Now as you can see, this is bought by the way at The [...]

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Commercial Underground Drainage System For Roof Runoff Water

2018-08-28T15:25:27-04:00By |Categories: Commercial Drainage System|Tags: |

 Commercial Underground Drainage System For Roof Runoff Water We are installing a commercial underground drainage system for a commercial building. They had a new roof put on and they want to manage the rooftop water. They want to take it underground, take it to a storm drain. We put a bid in for this job. [...]

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Sump Pump Line Repair and Replacement

2018-08-27T08:21:50-04:00By |Categories: Sump Pump|Tags: , |

 Sump Pump Line Repair and Replacement in Macomb and Oakland County, MI Sump pump line repair.  All the calls we go on for repair, sump pump line, they all turn into a replacement of some pump line. And I'm going to show you why there's some pump line quit working. So the homeowner had to [...]

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How deep should downspouts be buried in Michigan?

2018-08-24T16:00:38-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: |

 How deep should downspouts be buried in Michigan? How deep should downspout pipe be? This pipe was run last year and we had a pretty good winter. A lot of freeze and thaw and the frost pushed it up. We didn't do it were being contracted to fix it. What I found works are approximately [...]

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Retaining Wall French Drain and Pool Yard Drainage System

2018-08-23T16:04:48-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , , |

 Retaining Wall French Drain and Pool Yard Drainage System We're building a retaining wall to retain a pool yard.  We are installing in a French drain system behind this retaining wall.  There's going to be a lot of water that runs out of this pool yard off the pool deck. We don't want all that [...]

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How deep should a dry well be and how far from the house should it be installed?

2018-08-22T07:36:00-04:00By |Categories: Sump Pump|Tags: , , |

 How deep should a dry well be and how far from the house should it be installed? How deep should a dry well be and how far from the house should a dry well be installed? How big in diameter should a dry well be? All these things factor into your soil percolation and the volume [...]

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Commercial Sump Pump Basin Designed and Installed to Take in Subsurface Water

2018-08-20T15:17:24-04:00By |Categories: Sump Pump|Tags: , |

 Commercial Sump Pump Basin Designed and Installed to Take in Subsurface Water For commercial sump pump basin design and installation or for commercial French drain contractors in Macomb, Oakland, St. Clairon, and Lapeer County, Michigan, give us a call at 248-505-3065.

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How to install a backyard sump pump basin in 3 minutes or less!

2018-08-17T15:57:34-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , |

 How to install a backyard sump pump basin in 3 minutes or less! A lot of people ask us how we set a five foot sump pump basin. It's five foot deep. We use a 36 inch auger with extensions.  Put it on a machine that has the horsepower to twist and auger that size, [...]

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Sump Pump Line Installers & French Drain Installers — Experience Matters!

2018-08-16T16:18:53-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , |

 Sump Pump Line Installers & French Drain Installers -- Experience Matters! You see in a lot of our videos how I talk about how trees lift the ground. They'll lift sump pump lines. They'll live French drain systems. You can see the sidewalk here, how it's raised right by the tree. As you get near [...]

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How a French Drain System can Prevent a Dry Creek Bed Failure

2018-08-15T09:08:41-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , |

 How a French Drain System can Prevent a Dry Creek Bed Failure Dry Creek beds. I am all for dry creek beds as long as they're built correctly. Now, this is a dry creek bed that they did not ditch.  And what I mean by that is they just laid some rock in a swale.  [...]

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