The More Dirt Removed and More Stone Used, The Better the French Drain Just because somebody makes a claim that they are a professional yard drainage contractor, you still have to be careful. When hiring someone to solve a yard drainage issue. Know, this fact, the more stone, the better the drain. The more soil that's [...]
Improve The Quality of Your Subsoil and Turf Grass With a French Drain We're running French drains on a large piece of property in Michigan. It's 10 acres. It drains fine as far as surface water. The driveway shuts off the water into a swale area. The lot is crowned really nice. All the water [...]
Evaluating Residential Property for a Yard Drainage System I just got done doing an evaluation with the homeowner and now I'm going to price out a system. Just wanted to show you how we troubleshoot a yard with drainage issues. I have a downspout coming off the corner. It's taken care of two stories of water. [...]
French Drain Installation Tips & Tricks for DIY'ers from The French Drain Man When you are trying to come up with a yard drainage solution a French drain is one of the most effective drain systems you can install to improve your property and your drainage of your backyard. This is a French drain system [...]
How Much Stone Should You Use in a French Drain System? The more stone the better the drain. We always put the pipe at the bottom of the French drain trench. That way the frost can't push this up to the surface. I'm doing anatomy kind of shot for you. We're gonna. Continue this drain, [...]
Professional Yard Drainage Contractor Explains How Yard Drainage Works We are professional yard drainage installers, commercial and residential French drain installers. I wanted to go over one of the things that we run into a lot in the areas that we service, which is North Macomb County, Michigan, North Oakland County, Michigan, St, Clair County, [...]
How a French Drain Can Improve Your Property We just had a downpour and the water was running over the grass into the storm drain catch basin. It goes through the inlets of the grate on top. Now that that rain is over, this rain event is over. There is a lot of water in [...]
How Trees Lift Your Grade and your French Drain Causing Drainage Problems This is a failed French drain system. I want to explain a couple of reasons why it failed. One, the tree here has lifted the ground. It has raised the ground. It has brought the French drain system to the surface to the [...]
How to Build a French Drain System Around a Tree We do an over dig is, and that's why you see water in the bottom of it. We over dig this six-inches deeper than the rest of the system, so this tree can lift this system in this area and it won't affect it. It [...]
How To Avoid Problems When Running Downspouts Underground I'm at a home that had downspouts ran underground and the pipe right here where the pavers are heaved. They ended up just putting the discharge right there. I can explain to you what's happened here. The underground pipe went underneath the walk and up. Now it's trapping [...]
Go to the FDM Canada Site
