How to Take Your French Drain to Daylight A lot of people want to know how do we terminate our French drains when they go to daylight. Anytime you're not going to infrastructure like a storm drain catch basin, you're going to have to take it to daylight. We keep a critter guard on them [...]
What Can You Do When You Have a High Water Table? Okay, what you can do when the water table's too high. We came and we did this storm, this catch basin tap. We tapped this. We tapped this months ago, to be honest with you. We have just been busy and backlogged and now [...]
Can a French Drain Take In Gutter Downspout Water? All right, so while Marcello takes care of the strap on the gutter downspouts and trust me guys, when you go to these jobs, not all the gutter systems are in the best condition. They've had all kinds of crazy things done to them. So, Marcello, [...]
Why You Need to Stake Your Geotextile Fabric and Then Staple! All right, Valentine, he's been pinning down the fabric. The reason why you want to pin down your fabric, when you go to pour your stone in, if you don't have it staked and we'll, what we do is we use the sod staples [...]
How to Install a Blind Inlet We get a lot of questions about blind inlets. Today is really muddy. We've had this all night and all-day rain. This past weekend was a wet one. So this grass will look great after a couple more rains just from walking it and stomping and it's a bit [...]
Billy Goat Sod Cutter Review We were going through sod cutter after sod, cutter after sod cutter. Finally, I felt comfortable with the Bluebirds and then we ran the Bluebirds for years. They're pretty solid unit but they're not Hydros. So there were chains and belts that this machine does not have that were always [...]
How to Use Perforated Corrugated Drainage Pipe to Disperse Water All right, we're doing a test. We're taking two leach field manifolds. Okay. See all the water coming right out. We're taking a half-horse Liberty. Look at all the water just pouring out of that. Why is that? Well, you're not supposed to use a [...]
Which Drainage Pipe Should You Use? We did a leach field series showing you how to build a yard drain to a leach field, but I'm a little bit concerned because we're selling the leach field manifolds with 8 slot pipe. Now the 8 slots we'll use as a collection pipe, we use knife-cut as [...]
Why We Work Around the Clock When Excavating Large Pond Digs Not last night, but the night before we had an all-night rain and we still pushed a lot of dirt because you got to keep the piles knocked down. You know, if the excavator gets too far out in front of the dozer, man, it [...]
How to Dig a Pond - Part 4 We now have enough ground opened up. We have more ground opened up right now. This is larger than most ponds for sure. That's just this addition itself, let alone the three acres that we're going to be connecting this to when we go through that dam [...]
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