Yearly Archives: 2019

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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How to Find Iron Ochre in New Construction

2019-10-14T19:01:20-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: |

 How to Find Iron Ochre in New Construction If you're looking for a new home, driving the subdivisions and look where they've got ground opened up. If you see this, that's iron ochre. I'm not saying your house is garbage if you got an iron ochre, of course not. Of course not. You've gotta be [...]

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Advanced Drainage Systems (ADS)

2019-10-17T05:05:46-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , |

 Advanced Drainage Systems (ADS) Well, it's been a busy week. It's been a busy couple of weeks man. But look at all The Home Depot pipe, all the garbage. We bring this stuff in every day and then we topped the dumpster off with it right before they come to, that's a three-hour dumpster, once [...]

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How to Move Six Million Gallons of Pond Water Breaking a Dam

2019-10-10T22:30:00-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , , , , |

 How to Move Six Million Gallons of Pond Water Breaking a Dam We've been working on this project. It's an expansion of the corner pond. You can see how high the water is. This is after July, August. It actually was up here and July, August is drought season. It dried up this through evaporation, [...]

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Drainage Pipe End Cap or End Plug?

2019-10-10T22:07:34-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , |

 Drainage Pipe End Cap or End Plug? We ship out a lot of end caps and I'm not really sure what people are using them for because we're still shipping a lot. We carry them because people ask for him. People want them, but these work much better. This is an internal end plug. The [...]

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How to Take Your French Drain to Daylight

2019-10-10T18:53:36-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , , |

 How to Take Your French Drain to Daylight A lot of people want to know how do we terminate our French drains when they go to daylight. Anytime you're not going to infrastructure like a storm drain catch basin, you're going to have to take it to daylight. We keep a critter guard on them [...]

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What Can You Do When You Have a High Water Table?

2019-10-10T10:01:20-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , , |

 What Can You Do When You Have a High Water Table? Okay, what you can do when the water table's too high. We came and we did this storm, this catch basin tap. We tapped this. We tapped this months ago, to be honest with you. We have just been busy and backlogged and now [...]

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Can a French Drain Take In Gutter Downspout Water?

2019-10-07T08:08:32-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , , |

 Can a French Drain Take In Gutter Downspout Water? All right, so while Marcello takes care of the strap on the gutter downspouts and trust me guys, when you go to these jobs, not all the gutter systems are in the best condition. They've had all kinds of crazy things done to them. So, Marcello, [...]

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Why You Need to Stake Your Geotextile Fabric and Then Staple!

2019-10-07T07:16:41-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , , |

 Why You Need to Stake Your Geotextile Fabric and Then Staple! All right, Valentine, he's been pinning down the fabric. The reason why you want to pin down your fabric, when you go to pour your stone in, if you don't have it staked and we'll, what we do is we use the sod staples [...]

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