Yearly Archives: 2019

How to Build a Better Yard Drain for Less Money and Time – DIY

2019-09-27T15:12:13-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , |

 How to Build a Better Yard Drain for Less Money and Time - DIY All right. So Valentine's connecting the one-inch poly. We buy hundreds of feet of poly pipe. In Michigan the sprinkler systems are all made out of a poly pipe that way during the freeze and thaw cycle, this stuff's very flexible. [...]

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Install Your DIY French Drain or Hire a French Drain Contractor

2019-09-27T08:59:05-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , , |

 Install Your DIY French Drain or Hire a French Drain Contractor From Spring to Fall, we're doing yard drainage. Last year we went right up to Christmas and this year we're just going to go until he can't get a shovel in the ground. It seems like now that we raised awareness, more and more [...]

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How to Modify Your Downspout Using FDM’s Torrential Rain Kit

2019-09-26T06:26:22-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , , |

 How to Modify Your Downspout Using FDM's Torrential Rain Kit Brian's installing the torrential rain kit. He was already up on the ladder and he cut a big opening in the gutter. It went from a six and three-quarter outlet to a 17 and a quarter inch outlet. So that's a huge funnel. Now this [...]

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DIY How to Dig a Pond Part 1

2019-09-26T05:56:20-04:00By |Categories: Michigan French Drain|Tags: , , |

 DIY How to Dig a Pond You never want to dig a pond during the rainy season. You're going to move only a third of the dirt for three times the cost. This is the most efficient way to dig a pond. You want it to be an August dig. You want to make sure [...]

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Yard Drain French Drain – Move More Water With Less Labor and Money

2019-09-24T23:26:18-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , , , |

 Yard Drain French Drain - Move More Water With Less Labor and Money Welcome to the French Drain Man channel. I'm Robert Sherwood and I'm here to help you save money. Put in the yard drain that moves more water and less labor. We were using larger and larger aggregate to increase the amount of [...]

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Yard Drain, French Drain

2019-09-24T23:12:03-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , , |

Yard Drain, French Drain We have a lot of sheet water coming off this large driveway. It has a cobblestone open French drain, but here's the problem. We didn't do that. All this water is being discharged where this retaining wall is. This is a second wall too and it's leaning and it's failing because of [...]

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How to Use a High Water Alarm

2019-09-24T06:36:51-04:00By |Categories: Sump Pump|Tags: , |

 How to Use a High Water Alarm These high water alarms are just great. People can just test it, make sure that it works. When you're on the lake and you're pumping water all the time, it's hard to sleep at night. You worry if that pump goes. So this has a float that goes [...]

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How to Build a Commercial Water Feature

2019-09-24T06:28:27-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , |

 How to Build a Commercial Water Feature I'm running with Scott heading out to Lansing. Scott's got his dump trailer, well it's a gooseneck, he's got it full, full of cobblestone. I'm running the 10 ton so we can load up the equipment. We're going to finish up Zach's waterfall project, detail it out, give [...]

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How to Wire an Outdoor Sump Pump System

2019-09-23T10:06:03-04:00By |Categories: Sump Pump|Tags: , , , , |

How to Wire an Outdoor Sump Pump System Some of the comments in the comment section, people want to know how do you wire an outdoor sump pump. We have the inlet for the Baughman High Octane 8-Slot Pipe and then that water will fall to the bottom and we lift it with a half-horse Liberty [...]

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How to Run a Downspout in a French Drain

2019-09-23T09:28:29-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , , , , |

 How to Run a Downspout in a French Drain Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. When Francisco digs and he can feel when he grabs a sprinkler line, that Kubota U17 is really sensitive and it, because it doesn't have a lot of breakout for us. That's actually a plus that you could tell when you grab a [...]

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