Backyard Water Doesn't Drain Due to Claypan In Macomb Township Michigan, installing a French drain system. I wanted to talk about why it's so soft and hard to mow in between the houses. The clay pan that we have in Macomb Township doesn’t let the water dissipate. Basically, it’s always very soft. why is it [...]
Drain Tile vs a French Drain in a Residential Yard nce in a while, I get asked why does a farm field work, that’s tiled? Why wouldn’t that work in a residential backyard? So I’m going to explain that to you really quick. Compaction of soil Is one thing, the farmer tills the top surface of [...]
Install a French Drain to Reduce Soil Saturation in Your Yard We’re installing a French Drain System in Township, Michigan. You don’t have to have standing water to need a French Drain system. The rate at which water absorbs into the soil, the percolation, or perc rate, as it’s known, is a very slow rate [...]
Yard Drainage Failures - Must Watch Welcome to the French Drain Man Channel. Where we're to educate the homeowner, all the different contractors that come in with different yard water systems to help with your drainage issues. We're going to hopefully clear some of that up today in this video right here. I know that [...]
A True French Drain Does Not Need Inlet Surface Drains Here’s a completed French Drain, with the last piece of sod yet to be put in. You can see how the channel, full of stone and pipe, is fully contained by filter fabric. This is to prevent any contamination from ever getting into the French [...]
Drainage System Failure do to Inlet Basins that Allowed Contaminants What you see is a drainage system that has failed all that pipe you see right there and all those surface inlet drains. This was some sort of somebody's idea and how to take care and manage yard water and it just does not work. [...]
Why You Need a French Drain System for a Yard with No Slope We’re in Macomb Township, Michigan, installing a French drain system. Wanted to talk about the slope that the developer leaves you with. When the engineers design a subdivision, for example. And they have to account for slopes. On the east side of Michigan, [...]
Maintenance Free French Drain Install in Oakland County, MI Okay, we're at the location where the French drain terminates. You can see that all the stone has been encased with filter fabric, a heavy eight ounce commercial rated filter fabric. You want a six-foot roll of fabric. That way you can go down both sides [...]
How to Build a French Drain the Right Way from A to Z We're in Macomb Township, MI putting in a French drain. We're hauling out all the clay that we excavate. None of it's going back in. We always plywood into the property so that we do not disturb the homeowner's turf. We want [...]
3D Design and Onsite Underground Downspout Install We are yard drainage contractors in Michigan. We’re installing an underground drainage system. We’re burying downspouts. There’s a lot of tricks and tips and things you got to know when you lay out a system. I’m going to go over a couple right now. Hopefully, it helps out the [...]
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