Monthly Archives: October 2019

Why Corrugated Pipe is Better than PVC Pipe Anywhere in the World

2019-10-22T18:24:19-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|

 Why Corrugated Pipe is Better than PVC Pipe Anywhere in the World Welcome to the French Drain Man channel. I'm Robert Sherwood and I'm here to talk about PVC pipe and how it doesn't belong in yard drains. We have four of the Baughman High Octane. It's got inlet like monster inlets, and they're 360 [...]

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How to Move More Water in Your French Drain

2019-10-22T09:51:06-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , , |

 How to Move More Water in Your French Drain How you can move more water with your yard drainage system? You know, obviously you want a pipe that has monster inlets. You want the water to be able to get inside the void that this pipe creates in the trench. That's what you're after. You [...]

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How to Build a Pond / Man-Made Lake

2019-10-21T18:22:24-04:00By |Categories: Michigan French Drain|Tags: , , |

 How to Build a Pond / Man-Made Lake We got a lot done today. I really blew this out. You can see that this is the dirt dam because of the water that filled up. We'll come back tomorrow and this is going to have a lot of water in it. Is this the way [...]

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What Happens When You Dam a Stream

2019-10-17T05:01:36-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , , |

 What Happens When You Dam a Stream I want to show you guys something for two reasons. One, the lowest sprinkler in your sprinkler system will run like this for a very, very long time until it empties all the pipe. So if you're not a flat yard, so you've got to the walkout basement, [...]

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Exceptions to Every Rule in Yard Drainage

2019-10-17T04:50:53-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , |

 Exceptions to Every Rule in Yard Drainage I'm in Troy, Michigan and I wanted to make this video for a few reasons, but the biggest reason is that I always tell you guys to collect the water downhill and sometimes there's an exception to every rule. Keep that in mind. There are always those exceptions. [...]

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How to Move More Water in Your Underground Downspout System

2023-02-02T19:07:40-05:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , |

 How to Move More Water in Your Underground Downspout System FDM replaced this Vented Wye Clean Out with the New and Improved Downspout Leaf Filter and Clean Out Marcello's doing a downspout and we're running it in the same trench as our French drain on the property line. So we have a WYE [...]

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What is a Traditional Blind Inlet?

2019-10-16T05:28:16-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , |

 What is a Traditional Blind Inlet? I want to show you guys what a blind inlet looks like. Now, this is a traditional blind inlet guys. We have the High Octane running two parallel pipes, the Baughman High Octane, the Royal blue, giant windows. Now you don't have to run a pipe up into a [...]

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Best Yard Drain Basin on the Planet

2019-10-16T05:59:27-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , |

 Best Yard Drain Basin on the Planet I love this company. I mean the quality of all of their products. It's insane. I honestly don't know how NDS is still in business, to be honest. I just, it's garbage. I think the only reason why they sell their junk is that it's in the big [...]

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How to Build a French Drain Like the Pros – DIY

2019-10-15T19:09:24-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , , , |

 How to Build a French Drain Like the Pros I want to make sure that everybody's aware of this. We use a four-inch rubber gasket and the reason why you want to use this, you don't want your drainage stone to fall into the city's storm drain or your lift station or your sump pump [...]

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Gooseneck Flatbed and Dump Trailer Review with Knife Cut

2019-10-15T09:51:05-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , , |

Gooseneck Flatbed and Dump Trailer Review with Knife Cut Just slipping something for the contractors. Guys go to these monster ramps that PJ's making. These monster ramps, you could run a full-sized skid loader and you could run a mini up the same ramp and they got spring assist. We just love it and this beavertail, [...]

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