How to Build the Best French Drain - The More Stone, The Better the Drain Never hire a contractor that's going to bring the stone to the site in a van or on a single axle utility trailer. I know that a lot of contractors see me as a whistleblower and I don't mean to be [...]
Yard Drainage Contractors Installing a French Drain to Yard Sump Pump System We are yard drainage contractors. We're installing a sump pump basin for a French drain system. The reason why we have to put in a sump pump, the gravity system no longer works because we have such a high water table right now [...]
4-inch vs 6-inch Corrugated Pipe for Open French Drain As a yard drainage contractor, it's always very helpful when the homeowner takes pictures during these rain and flood events. Take pictures to help the contractor so they can see it at its worst so they know what they're up against. I can walk on a [...]
French Drain System to Lake, River, Waterway - YOU MUST DO THIS When installing a drainage system near a river, lake, pond, or any body of water, you want to shoot the elevations that are on the seawall or the bank when the water levels are at their highest point. You have to design the [...]
Open French Drain Moves Yard Water Faster Than Any Other Drain We're yard drainage contractors in Michigan installing an open French drain system around the garage in Macomb County. What's been happening? Water runs down. These are large lots, acres. We have acres here draining. Water runs downhill, ends up inside this garage. It'll come [...]
How to Maximize Your Yard By Installing a French Drain On subdivision lots when we're trying to maximize our outdoor living space and maximize the use of our yards, a lot of times we can encroach on the soiled areas where water is designed to collect and run to a storm drain catch basin. Here [...]
Why You DO NOT Use a Trencher to Build a French Drain French drain contractors have to work a lot of times in the dark, so I'm sorry that the quality of this video might not be the greatest, but I just want to show you how much dirt has to come out to build [...]
Do Dry Wells Work and Why Do Dry Wells Fail? I get asked this question all the time. Why can't we just dig a hole and fill it full of stone and terminate the pipe there and this is a perfect example why shouldn't just dig a hole. I just had a homeowner request a [...]
How Does a French Drain Work? Does it Need Maintenance? How a French drain works. I just wanted to go over how a French drain works. We remove 14-inches by 14-inches of the existing soil. We cut the sod off first and we always cut it really thick so that we take two and a [...]
Curtain French Drain Yard Drainage System in Oakland Township, Michigan We're installing a curtain French drain around this outdoor living space. Let me explain how it works. There's a high concentration of roof runoff water that comes off the house, and then there's a lot of water that comes down the side yard because there's a [...]
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