Don't Use a Filter Wrapped Corrugated Pipe for the Inlet of a French Drain System We're working on a job that has two failed French drains. So, they've lived here 18 years and they're French drains that they have installed, keep failing, and I wanted to go over why. Okay, so this is your three slot [...]
BUYER BEWARE! What May Happen When You Hire The Wrong Yard Drainage Contractor You don't want this to happen to you. This was supposed to be a job where the water that ends up going into this drain in this patio for this forced walkout is gravity-fed to a drywell. I always talk about how drywells [...]
Do NOT Use Pea Gravel, Pea Pebble, Pea Stone When Building a French Drain When building a French drain, you want to use a coarse rock that has been screened and washed. The rock that you see in this French Drain is 3/4" and larger. You end up with large voids that'll move far more [...]
How NOT To Install a French Drain System in Michigan - French Drain Failure I'm looking at a failed drainage system. I want to point out a couple of things so that when you're shopping for a French drainage system or a drainage system in Michigan. Some things to know, some things to look out [...]
French Drain Man Rants About Contractors Cheating Home Owners in Michigan French Drain Man here. I just want to clear a few things up. I've been going out on appointments and one out of three appointments has a failed French Drain System. I've been on two appointments recently where the systems were less than a year old. [...]
Outdoor Sump Pump Will Protect Your Michigan Property And Your Health It's February in Michigan and we had a warmup, all the snow's melted, a lot of flooding, it rained all day yesterday, all last night, still raining today. They said that if this was snow, it would've been 40 inches of snow. So it's [...]
Downspouts Buried Underground with Solid Corrugated Pipe When talking about burying downspouts, this is a question I get asked often. Why not use smooth wall storm and sewer pipe? Here in Michigan, we have weather conditions that create, well what you see here, a frozen downspout. This is frozen completely, you can see where the [...]
Why You Don't Use A Trencher to Install a French Drain in Michigan In all our videos we're always comparing a trencher to an excavator. Here's a picture of a trencher tearing up the grass, ripping through all the sprinkler lines, and just creating a very, very small groove to put a four-inch pipe in. [...]
How Deep Should a French Drain Be In Macomb Township, MI How deep should a French drain be in Macomb Twp., MI? It all depends on the application. Here, we're tying in to a storm drain catch basin that already is sleeved. The bottom of that sleeve is 18 inches, so we want it at least [...]
Don't use a drain sleeve pipe sock with a French drain system in Michigan This is a roll of pipe with a sock on it. When you're gathering quotes for a french drain in Michigan make sure not to go the contractor using pipe with a sock on it for a french drain system in a [...]
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