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 [...]
How to Build a Maintenance Free French Drain Welcome to the French Drain Man YouTube Channel. I want to go over how to build a French drain that's maintenance free, where the pipe never ever gets any debris in it. Literally for the life of the French drain. And we're talking about a French drain [...]
Yard Drainage System and the #1 Reason for FAILURE Welcome to the French Drain Man YouTube channel. I just wanted to focus on one thing in this video. One-third of the yard drainage projects that we are contracted to do, we're actually replacing somebody else's failed drainage system. I wanted to go over the number [...]
When should you run parallel French Drains? Why run two pipes? Okay, in the area where it’s pretty flat and you have a large amount of saturated soil, just running a single pipe wouldn’t be enough. Now, a French drain will take care of Three feet on either side of it as far as drying the [...]
French Drain Fabric for CLAY Welcome to the French Drain Man channel where we show the DIY guy and the homeowner who's shopping for a yard drainage system, the correct way to building a French drain system. Now, one of the more controversial topics in the industry is fabrics for drainage systems and especially in [...]
EZTEE and PVC TAPE for Corrugated Pipe I want to thank Agri Drain for shipping me some EZTee to check out. I'm going to share that with you right now. All right, so Megan from Agri Drain sent me these. Appreciate it. All right, so EZTee. What's cool is they stack. There's a bunch of [...]
How to Build the Best Drainage System for Extreme Water Conditions I want to talk about gravel French drain systems versus all the alternatives. I want to talk about our gravel French drain systems in particular, where we do not use any inlet basins, why they are so effective and why they are the only [...]
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