Winter Is Coming - Don't Procrastinate and Get Your Drainage Systems Installed DIYers one day, just like a light switch, the temperatures disappear. Those warm days are gone. You don't want to be on your project with frozen aggregate. And even though when we're out in the snow, cause we'll go until we can't get [...]
How to Build a Better Yard Drain for Less Money and Time - DIY All right. So Valentine's connecting the one-inch poly. We buy hundreds of feet of poly pipe. In Michigan the sprinkler systems are all made out of a poly pipe that way during the freeze and thaw cycle, this stuff's very flexible. [...]
Install Your DIY French Drain or Hire a French Drain Contractor From Spring to Fall, we're doing yard drainage. Last year we went right up to Christmas and this year we're just going to go until he can't get a shovel in the ground. It seems like now that we raised awareness, more and more [...]
How to Modify Your Downspout Using FDM's Torrential Rain Kit Brian's installing the torrential rain kit. He was already up on the ladder and he cut a big opening in the gutter. It went from a six and three-quarter outlet to a 17 and a quarter inch outlet. So that's a huge funnel. Now this [...]
Yard Drain French Drain - Move More Water With Less Labor and Money Welcome to the French Drain Man channel. I'm Robert Sherwood and I'm here to help you save money. Put in the yard drain that moves more water and less labor. We were using larger and larger aggregate to increase the amount of [...]
Yard Drain, French Drain We have a lot of sheet water coming off this large driveway. It has a cobblestone open French drain, but here's the problem. We didn't do that. All this water is being discharged where this retaining wall is. This is a second wall too and it's leaning and it's failing because of [...]
How to Build a Commercial Water Feature I'm running with Scott heading out to Lansing. Scott's got his dump trailer, well it's a gooseneck, he's got it full, full of cobblestone. I'm running the 10 ton so we can load up the equipment. We're going to finish up Zach's waterfall project, detail it out, give [...]
How to Run a Downspout in a French Drain Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. When Francisco digs and he can feel when he grabs a sprinkler line, that Kubota U17 is really sensitive and it, because it doesn't have a lot of breakout for us. That's actually a plus that you could tell when you grab a [...]
How to Deal with a Sprinkler System in a French Drain I had a young contractor in Troy, Michigan wanted to know how we deal with the sprinklers. Francisco can feel when there's a sprinkler there, the Kubota U17 doesn't have a lot of breakout for us. Sometimes you know, sometimes you wish it had [...]
What Happens When You Bury Yard Drainage Pipe Too Shallow In the north, if you don't bury your drain pipe, this is what happens when it's too shallow and you don't bury it deep enough. This is a job that we're going to redo. When it's hard ground, like the clay that we're typically working [...]
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