Outdoor Sump Pump and French Drain Installation Algonac Michigan This is an outdoor sump pump installation to take care of yard water. The backyard is seven inches higher than the front yard. The front yard is made up of about three acres. There was nowhere for the water to go. There are no ditches in [...]
Outdoor Sump Pump French Drain Hybrid System Algonac MI I want to show you a job that I did last year. I wanted to show you how the homeowner is benefitting from the install that we provided them with last year. There's a kayak, I guess they use that to get from the house to [...]
What is an Open French Drain? French Drain System Installed in Algonac, MI Example of an open French drain. This is a great example of an open French drain. Water comes off the street and just floods the side of the house and the backyard. We dug out all the dirt alongside the house. We [...]
How to Build a French Drain Correctly in Algonac, Michigan How to build a French drain system is to take an excavator and trench so that the trench itself starts in low spots and slope your way towards the discharge. Now we like to go 14 inches wide on our trenches. We fill them with coarse [...]
French Drain Slope in Algonac, Michigan French drain, it's the most efficient way to remove water from a problem area in your yard. A lot of times when you're running French drain, as the trench slopes you end up below the area of discharge whether that's a ditch bottom. In this case, it happens to be [...]
French Drain Depth For Algonac, Michigan French drain depth. A lot of times the depth of the French drain as you slope the trench so the water runs away from the problem area, ends up being below the location of discharge. Now you have to build a pump system, you have to put in a storm [...]
Algonac French Drain System - Macomb County, Michigan We're in Algonac, Michigan putting in a French drain system. Now we're running a French drain down both sides of the property. This property's extremely flat, it holds a lot of water. The only way we get the water out of here is to basically give it a [...]
Algonac, MI - Take Pictures of Standing Water for The French Drain Installer We're in Algonac, Michigan, building a French drain system. Basically, I just wanted to emphasize how important it is to take pictures after the rain events to show just what's happening as far as the ponding, pooling, where the water is lying. OK, [...]
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