Yearly Archives: 2019

How to Build a Maintenance Free French Drain

2019-04-03T20:41:43-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , |

 How to Build a Maintenance Free French Drain Welcome to the French Drain Man YouTube Channel. I want to go over how to build a French drain that's maintenance free, where the pipe never ever gets any debris in it. Literally for the life of the French drain. And we're talking about a French drain [...]

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Yard Drainage System and the #1 Reason for FAILURE

2019-04-02T22:39:04-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , , |

 Yard Drainage System and the #1 Reason for FAILURE Welcome to the French Drain Man YouTube channel. I just wanted to focus on one thing in this video. One-third of the yard drainage projects that we are contracted to do, we're actually replacing somebody else's failed drainage system. I wanted to go over the number [...]

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Sherwood Landscape Construction 3D Design for Homeowner in Rochester Hills, MI

2019-04-01T21:55:29-04:00By |Categories: Landscape|Tags: , |

 Sherwood Landscape Construction 3D Design for Homeowner in Rochester Hills, MI Welcome to the French Drain Man channel. I'm Robert Sherwood, the Founder, and owner of Sherwood Landscape Construction. Sherwood Landscape Construction owns French Drain Man. I wanted to show you what our construction company actually does. I thought our subscribers would really appreciate this. I [...]

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Landscape 3D Design Washington Twp, MI

2021-03-05T12:48:16-05:00By |Categories: Landscape|Tags: |

 Landscape 3D Design Washington Twp, MI Welcome to the French Drain Man channel. We're showing you a 3D design.  This is in Washington Township, Michigan. Our construction company, Sherwood Landscape Construction, is providing all of the design and construction services for this installation. In Washington Township, Michigan, they want you to pull a permit even [...]

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When should you run parallel French Drains?

2019-03-28T17:03:12-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: |

When should you run parallel French Drains? Why run two pipes? Okay, in the area where it’s pretty flat and you have a large amount of saturated soil, just running a single pipe wouldn’t be enough. Now, a French drain will take care of Three feet on either side of it as far as drying the [...]

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French Drain Fabric for CLAY

2019-03-26T16:25:22-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , , |

 French Drain Fabric for CLAY Welcome to the French Drain Man channel where we show the DIY guy and the homeowner who's shopping for a yard drainage system, the correct way to building a French drain system. Now, one of the more controversial topics in the industry is fabrics for drainage systems and especially in [...]

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EZTee and PVC TAPE for Corrugated Pipe

2019-03-21T18:01:19-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , , , |

 EZTEE and PVC TAPE for Corrugated Pipe I want to thank Agri Drain for shipping me some EZTee to check out. I'm going to share that with you right now. All right, so Megan from Agri Drain sent me these. Appreciate it. All right, so EZTee. What's cool is they stack. There's a bunch of [...]

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How to Build the Best Drainage System for Extreme Water Conditions

2019-03-16T10:05:59-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , , , , , |

 How to Build the Best Drainage System for Extreme Water Conditions I want to talk about gravel French drain systems versus all the alternatives. I want to talk about our gravel French drain systems in particular, where we do not use any inlet basins, why they are so effective and why they are the only [...]

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How to Read Elevations for Yard Drainage

2019-03-08T19:45:19-05:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , |

 How to Read Elevations for Yard Drainage Welcome to the French Drain Man channel. We're going go over grade elevations today. I am going to tell you how and where you can go to get those. This is a plot plan you asked for it at your building department. You can also go to your [...]

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