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 [...]
Why French Drains Need Geotextile Fabric I'm always talking about how you need a Geotextile non-woven fabric to act as a soil separator from your stone. Here's the perfect example. We've been contracted to put in a new French drain. The old French drain quit working. You can see that the stone migrated into the [...]
Gutter Downspout Adapter for New Homes & Established Homes in Michigan I've covered this in previous videos, but I never gave a field example. I have always been in our in our yard where we have our inventory. I've done a couple of videos and covered, but here I'm out in the field and I [...]
Corrugated Dual Wall Pipe Connection for Underground Drainage System in Clarkston, MI We're in Clarkston, Michigan, and we're going to tape a connection on our downspout pipe. We're running an underground drainage system in Clarkston, Michigan, and wanted to show you the right way to tape a joint so that tree roots can't get in [...]
Waterproof Exterior Wall, Foundation, Footer With a Sump Pump Drain Pipe I wanted to show you the right way to seal up a foundation for when you're running footer pipe. This actually was a garden bed and I know that seems crazy. I mean, why would you put a garden bed right over your tile? [...]
Freedom Drain / French Drain System for Yard Water Drainage Problems We're installing a large drainage system, Freedom drain / French drain, as they're known. We have the neighbor's driveway water running off into this collection area. We also have the roof water. You can see the downspouts. There are the gutter troughs, so we're [...]
Dual Wall Corrugated Pipe for Underground Drainage System for Roof Run-Off We're running a downspout, an apartment building. We're using a dual wall corrugated pipe. It's smooth on the inside and corrugated on the outside. Very flexible, but yet rigid, strong. All right, let's go through the system so I can explain why we use [...]
Sump Pump Line to French Drain System to Drain Yard Water We're installing a sump pump line to a French drain system. I just wanted to show you what the system looks like. Everyone is a little different. They're tailor-made the hall a lot and the conditions. The soil here is low percolation, so we [...]
Drainage Filter Fabric Installation for a French Drain System When you go to do your burrito wrap or your French drain system, you want to make sure not to overlap. I've seen drains where they do a heavy overlap. The water flows through this filter fabric just fine. The filter fabric always has a gallons [...]
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