Downspouts Under Wood Decks Must Be Buried Underground The homeowner that contracted us to run underground downspouts was not responsible for the existing system. What you see here is a really bad idea. The water is just ran away from the house a little bit, but it rotted out the deck posts. Those are new. [...]
Why French Drains Fail -- Must Watch YouTube Video! We're installing some shrubs and some trees for some privacy and I wanted to show you why French drains fail. We blew the snow off the sod and then cut the sod out so that we can excavate the side and a snow. Both will act [...]
How to Install an Underground Drainage Systems With Snow on the Ground When working in the north, as long as the frost isn't too deep you can keep putting in an underground drainage system. But you do need to use a leaf blower to clear the snow. That's the best tool when it comes to [...]
Best Downspout Pipe for Underground Drainage Systems - French Drain Man, MI What is dual wall corrugated pipe? Seems like nobody's talking about it. Everyone wants to bad mouth corrugated pipe when there's no slope. Oh, they say all the debris is get caught in it. It's smooth on the inside. That's dual law. You've [...]
Yard Water Drainage Tips - Never Fill In Collection Areas / Swales You never want to fill in your collection areas. I run appointments and I'm still hearing it time and time again. People want to always fill in their collection areas. What I mean by that, we have this pool yard and to code [...]
Using a Sump Pump / Lift Station for Lake Lot Yard Drainage We're on Lake St. Clair and we're in Chesterfield, Michigan on a lake lot. We're setting a six-foot lift station. We went around this home with a curtain French drain because water was finding its way into the house and we built a [...]
Geo Fabric and French Drains the TRUTH - The French Drain Man This is a video I've been meaning to put some time aside and do for you the homeowners, the DIY guys, and even the homeowners that are shopping for a drainage system. What to ask for, what the tell your contractor you want. [...]
Downspout Drainage System - Avoid This Mistake I see this advertisement all the time. I see these diagrams all the time for ways to filter out the leaves and catch the water. So I want to explain to you why this is not a good idea. Why we do not practice this type of installation. [...]
The Anatomy of a Gravel / Stone French Drain Installation We are installing a stone French drain or a gravel drain. That's the catch basin we cored through the sidewall and connected to. This is a French drain grid. This entire area was completely saturated, it's really flat. If you tried to run just a [...]
Pump Stations, Lift Stations - How They Work To Drain Communities That's pump one. This is a pump station. It's designed to where there's alternating pumps that pump the water. What a pump station does, well, in this case, we have done a lot of drainage in the area. All the properties that we built [...]
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