When to Use a French Drain vs Yard Drain with Catch Basin Many homeowners have yard drainage issues that result in standing water, damaged foundations, or flooded basements. If your foundation is compromised by excess water, how do you know when to use a French drain vs yard drain with catch basin? Determining which system will [...]
Why Slope & Corrugated Pipe Combined Make a Better Yard Drainage System A lot of diagrams will show a trench with an uneven trench bottom. What I'm seeing with these diagrams that's very misleading is that they show corrugated pipe following the contour of the bottom of the trench. They are recommending PVC pipe for [...]
I just want to clear a few things up. I've been going out on appointments. One out of three appointments has a failed French drain system. I've been out on two appointments recently where the systems were less than a year old. They weren't French drains. Contractors are telling homeowners they are going to install a [...]
Macomb County Drainage Experts - When You Want it Done Right the First Time French Drain Man was a purpose-built company, just to take care of drainage issues. As a licensed builder in the state of Michigan for 35 years, I knew the importance of having a service like this. For some reason, drainage was [...]
Hire the Best Drainage Contractor in Michigan For the best drainage contractor in Michigan, give French Drain Man a call. One in three jobs that we do, we're tearing out a failed system. Thirty-five years, our first system is still working as good as our last system, three and a half decades later. Give French [...]
How to Install the BEST Perimeter Drain and Protect Your Castle Perimeter drains. That's going to catch all your water and your neighbors too. Think about that. If you're running a perimeter drain down both property lines, it doesn't matter what your neighbor's doing because quite frankly, they're not thinking about you. If they have [...]
Why You Must BURRITO WRAP Your French Drain for Best Results You have to Burrito Wrap your French drain system for success. This is an inch and a half round rock and there are big voids in between all that round rock. Inch and half round rock is the preferred aggregate of the French Drain [...]
How to Collect and Remove Water From Your Patio How to collect water that's pooling up on a patio. Sometimes you have to pull up the brick. If it's concrete, then it's a little different. You'd probably want to do a channel drain. In this case, this gentleman had a retaining wall around his patio [...]
How to Install a French Drain w/Minimal Damage to Lawn/Yard We installed the French drain and I just wanted to show you what it looks like when we're done. This is a finished product. How do you achieve that? How do you put in a French drain and have your yard look this good? Well, [...]
The Correct Way to Use Filter Wrapped Pipe in French Drain Systems There is a lot of talk about a pipe with a sleeve or sock on it. A lot of controversies out there. So I want to clear it up right now. If you have an aggregate that has a lot of fines in [...]
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