When to Use a Trencher to Install a French Drain When you look at the amount of equipment we take to install one of our systems, it's asking a lot of a DIY to install a system exactly the way we do and I know that. I mean look at all those trucks and trailers [...]
PVC Schedule 40 vs Corrugated Pipe Strength Test All right, we're going to put the PVC Schedule 40 through a torture test. Now, I talked to all my plumbing buddies and I said, how can I make PVC Schedule 40, that's the heaviest wall out of anything you're going to find in like Home Depot, [...]
Why Most Yard Drains Fail - Must Watch! I wanted to do a video on why most yard drains fail. We use these two pipes and we endorse these two pipes. They're both eight slots. They're both made by Baughman Tile. One is a custom ran pipe just for yard drains and foundation drains and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
How to Get More VOID in Your French Drains With the Baughman High Octane, we're able to control how much void we have in our yard drain systems or French drain systems. We do a lot of hybrids too and we're going to start showing you guys, but this is the perfect example. I wanted [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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