Yearly Archives: 2019

Yard Drainage Installation DIY

2019-09-17T20:51:17-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , , |

 Yard Drainage Installation DIY Alright, DIYers. I'm showing you this for a reason. I see in my comments a lot of you who have done some of the drain work and you're watching our videos. You mentioned that if you had to do it again, you would have rented one of these mini skid loaders [...]

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Best DIY Sump Pump Basin for Yard Drainage

2019-09-16T09:59:59-04:00By |Categories: Sump Pump|Tags: , , |

 Best DIY Sump Pump Basin for Yard Drainage You should never use an indoor sump pump pit for an outdoor yard drainage situation. When you're working on your drainage, the volumes of water are quite different when you're covering large pieces of property. Now in the middle there you see that's a residential indoor sump [...]

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What is an open French drain?

2019-09-14T17:20:26-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , |

 What is an open French drain? What is an open French drain? An open French drain is when you're not growing grass over it, the stone is exposed. This will move water faster than any other French drain. This is just like one long blind inlet. Basically, you have all this stone that the water [...]

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How to Remove Water from Playground with Baughman Tile 8 Slot Pipe

2019-09-11T22:04:46-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , , |

 How to Remove Water from Playground with Baughman Tile 8 Slot Pipe When you're running drainage in a yard with a play area, you always want to make sure . . . The kids are coming in with their muddy feet. This was a mess when I saw this early in the season, there was [...]

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How to Remove Iron Ochre from House Drainage Sump Pump Line

2019-09-09T21:32:51-04:00By |Categories: Sump Pump|Tags: , |

 How to Remove Iron Ochre from House Drainage Sump Pump Line I wanted to show you a job where Scott and his crew were flushing out all the sump lines and the basement drains. Everything had iron ochre in it. We run this one here. We're using a high-pressure washer with a jet nozzle that [...]

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How To Build a Leach Filed for Yard Drainage Systems – Episode 3/5

2019-09-17T15:16:48-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , , |

 How To Build a Leach Filed for Yard Drainage Systems - Episode 3/5 These are contractor rolls. We sell these in yard only. There are six knife cuts in the Baughman. This is Baughman virgin yellow. It's yellow on the outside, it's yellow on the inside. This stuff is going to last for 200 years [...]

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How to Remove Yard Water When French Drains Are Not Allowed

2019-09-04T13:23:41-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , , |

 How to remove Yard Water When French Drains Are Not Allowed in St. Clair Shores, MI It's rare to run into this where a city or village will not allow you to run a French drain. If you're on a lake or a community that's predominantly on the lake, the worries are you're going to [...]

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How to Dry Up Your Yard – The Right Way

2019-09-03T13:52:43-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , , |

 How to Dry Up Your Yard - The Right Way We're putting in a French drain system here, a yard drain system here. This is going to be handling a lot of water. This retaining wall failed. This is not the first retaining wall. This is the second retaining wall. They keep failing because of [...]

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How to Build a Leach Field for Yard Drainage Systems – Episode 2/5

2019-09-17T15:58:58-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , , , |

How to Build a Leach Field for Yard Drainage Systems - Episode 2/5 Welcome to the French Drain Man channel. I'm Robert Sherwood and I'm here to help educate the homeowner, the DIY and the contractor so that they can make the right choices when it comes to building yard drain systems, This is Baughman Tiles [...]

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How to Build a Leach Field for Yard Drainage Systems – Episode 1/5

2019-09-17T14:58:38-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , |

 How to Build a Leach Field for Yard Drainage Systems - Episode 1/5 What do you do when you live in a beautiful neighborhood with rolling hills? You found your dream home. It's the school district that you want your children to go to, but however, as time plays out, you find you happen to [...]

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