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How to Burrito Wrap High Octane™ Octane Quad Pack

2020-07-13T14:29:01-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , , |

 How to Burrito Wrap a Baughman High Octane Quad Pack So the guys are pinning the fabric over the High Octane™ Quad Pack. Now our five-foot wide by however long you purchase, we got it in a hundred feet and we got it in 360 feet. So that five-foot width is the one that's perfect [...]

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Why You Don’t Tie Your Downspout Pipe Directly to French Drain Pipe

2022-09-29T15:39:15-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , , |

 Why You Don't Tie Your Downspout Pipe Directly to French Drain Pipe Again, High Octane at the bottom. That's your perforated pipe with the hole in it. Always put the blue pipe at the bottom. Then your downspout pipes, run the Bachman Gold on top of the perforated pipe. It's solid. It's carrying the downspout [...]

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Contractor Roundup for Spring 2020 of High Octane Run

2020-01-06T10:30:51-05:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , |

 Contractor Roundup for Spring 2020 of High Octane Run   Welcome to the French Drain Man channel. I'm Robert Sherwood and I'm here to tell you about the Contractor Roundup of all the people that have signed up for a hundred coils or more. Contractors all summer long you've been beating us up, and guess [...]

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How to Prepare Your Sprinkler Pipe in a French Drain

2019-11-06T06:15:31-05:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: |

 How to Prepare Your Sprinkler Pipe in a French Drain DIYers and contractors, I'm going to show you how you handle sprinkler lines. Once you run into a sprinkler line, cut that out and put the couplers in. Let's go ahead and crimp clamp them. We got some one-inch couplers here. We got a three-quarter [...]

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How to Keep Water from Getting in Your Basement Window

2019-11-05T21:29:54-05:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , |

 How to Keep Water from Getting in Your Basement Window This is a branch. We have two pipes in the trench for our main, and this is typical of a branch. If you just want to reach up and make sure you're dry around your basement windows, just come off the main. That's all you [...]

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Why Corrugated Pipe is Better than PVC Pipe Anywhere in the World

2019-10-22T18:24:19-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|

 Why Corrugated Pipe is Better than PVC Pipe Anywhere in the World Welcome to the French Drain Man channel. I'm Robert Sherwood and I'm here to talk about PVC pipe and how it doesn't belong in yard drains. We have four of the Baughman High Octane. It's got inlet like monster inlets, and they're 360 [...]

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How to Move More Water in Your French Drain

2019-10-22T09:51:06-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , , |

 How to Move More Water in Your French Drain How you can move more water with your yard drainage system? You know, obviously you want a pipe that has monster inlets. You want the water to be able to get inside the void that this pipe creates in the trench. That's what you're after. You [...]

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What Happens When You Dam a Stream

2019-10-17T05:01:36-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , , |

 What Happens When You Dam a Stream I want to show you guys something for two reasons. One, the lowest sprinkler in your sprinkler system will run like this for a very, very long time until it empties all the pipe. So if you're not a flat yard, so you've got to the walkout basement, [...]

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Exceptions to Every Rule in Yard Drainage

2019-10-17T04:50:53-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , |

 Exceptions to Every Rule in Yard Drainage I'm in Troy, Michigan and I wanted to make this video for a few reasons, but the biggest reason is that I always tell you guys to collect the water downhill and sometimes there's an exception to every rule. Keep that in mind. There are always those exceptions. [...]

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How to Move More Water in Your Underground Downspout System

2023-02-02T19:07:40-05:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , |

 How to Move More Water in Your Underground Downspout System FDM replaced this Vented Wye Clean Out with the New and Improved Downspout Leaf Filter and Clean Out Marcello's doing a downspout and we're running it in the same trench as our French drain on the property line. So we have a WYE [...]

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