DIY Dry Well Review – NDS FLO-WELL at Lowes, The Home Depot and Menards

13 08, 2018

DIY Dry Well Review – NDS FLO-WELL at Lowes, The Home Depot and Menards

2018-08-13T06:31:35-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , , |Comments Off on DIY Dry Well Review – NDS FLO-WELL at Lowes, The Home Depot and Menards

 DIY Dry Well Review - NDS FLO-WELL at Lowes, The Home Depot and Menards Dry well, DIY dry well, NDS Flow-well. Well, I want to talk about one of the more what I consider to be underused products on the market. I'm hoping to boost the awareness that this is out there because the do-it-yourselfers, I [...]

10 08, 2018

Residential Stone French Drains vs Drain Tiling in a Farm Field

2018-08-10T13:34:07-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , , , , |Comments Off on Residential Stone French Drains vs Drain Tiling in a Farm Field

 Residential Stone French Drains vs Drain Tiling in a Farm Field One of the questions that people ask, and it's a great question, is why does drain tile and in a farm field work and why can't we just do that in our backyard? Well, it rained a couple of days ago and you can [...]

9 08, 2018

How to Determine the Correct Size of a Dry Well

2018-08-09T14:45:27-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , |Comments Off on How to Determine the Correct Size of a Dry Well

 How to Determine the Correct Size of a Dry Well How to size a dry well. You have to factor in the percolation of the soil, how well it percolates. If you have slow percolating soil, you're going to get a bigger dry well so that it acts as a reservoir when you collect the [...]

7 08, 2018

When Too Much Dirt is Put On Top of a French Drain It Fails

2018-08-07T16:03:57-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , , |Comments Off on When Too Much Dirt is Put On Top of a French Drain It Fails

 When T0o Much Dirt is Put On Top of a French Drain It Fails I've been called out on a failure of a French drain system and you can see here that they didn't use a lot of stone. You can see they covered the trench with a lot of dirt. They did not wrap [...]

6 08, 2018

Put a Yard Drainage System in BEFORE Building Dirt Up To Avoid Property Damage

2018-08-06T13:48:53-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , , , |Comments Off on Put a Yard Drainage System in BEFORE Building Dirt Up To Avoid Property Damage

 Put a Yard Drainage System in BEFORE Building Dirt Up To Avoid Damaging Your Structure When you have a building that's too low and the water's getting inside it like this garage. Now there's a failed sump pump system put there. This is Michigan and you can't go that shallow. It's just a regular house [...]

3 08, 2018

Causes of Yard Water Problems Explained by Yard Drainage Contractor

2018-08-03T19:04:34-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , , , |Comments Off on Causes of Yard Water Problems Explained by Yard Drainage Contractor

 Causes of Yard Water Problems Explained by Yard Drainage Contractor I'm going to go over some common yard drainage problems. What brings on yards drainage problems.  Here we got a couple of things going on. The water from this backyard is supposed to run through the neighbor's yard, and then there's a storm drain catch [...]

2 08, 2018

The More Dirt Removed and More Stone Used, The Better the French Drain

2018-08-02T13:28:02-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , , |Comments Off on The More Dirt Removed and More Stone Used, The Better the French Drain

 The More Dirt Removed and More Stone Used, The Better the French Drain Just because somebody makes a claim that they are a professional yard drainage contractor, you still have to be careful. When hiring someone to solve a yard drainage issue. Know, this fact, the more stone, the better the drain. The more soil that's [...]

1 08, 2018

Improve The Quality of Your Subsoil and Turf Grass With a French Drain

2018-08-01T09:57:47-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , , |Comments Off on Improve The Quality of Your Subsoil and Turf Grass With a French Drain

 Improve The Quality of Your Subsoil and Turf Grass With a French Drain We're running French drains on a large piece of property in Michigan. It's 10 acres. It drains fine as far as surface water.  The driveway shuts off the water into a swale area. The lot is crowned really nice. All the water [...]

31 07, 2018

Evaluating Residential Property for a Yard Drainage System

2018-08-01T10:00:02-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , |Comments Off on Evaluating Residential Property for a Yard Drainage System

Evaluating Residential Property for a Yard Drainage System I just got done doing an evaluation with the homeowner and now I'm going to price out a system. Just wanted to show you how we troubleshoot a yard with drainage issues. I have a downspout coming off the corner. It's taken care of two stories of water. [...]

30 07, 2018

French Drain Installation Tips & Tricks for DIY’ers

2018-07-23T14:45:51-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , , |Comments Off on French Drain Installation Tips & Tricks for DIY’ers

 French Drain Installation Tips & Tricks for DIY'ers from The French Drain Man When you are trying to come up with a yard drainage solution a French drain is one of the most effective drain systems you can install to improve your property and your drainage of your backyard. This is a French drain system [...]

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