French Drain Man Explains Why Yard Drainage Systems Fail With a Pipe Sock I want to talk about why we don't use a pipe with a sock on it. What homeowners and contractors are doing instead of lining the entire trench to create a fully contained French Drain System, They're going to use this pipe [...]
Do NOT Use Pea Gravel, Pea Pebble, Pea Stone When Building a French Drain When building a French drain, you want to use a coarse rock that has been screened and washed. The rock that you see in this French Drain is 3/4" and larger. You end up with large voids that'll move far more [...]
French Drain Man " We Simply Build a Better French Drain" When installing a French drain system, you want to have men in the trench on a laser level making sure that you get that bottom, you want that bottom perfect. If you leave an area that's two inches high after all this hard work [...]
Why We Need Yard Drains, French Drains - Macomb Township, MI We're in Macomb Township, Michigan, installing a French drain system. Wanted to talk about the slope that the developer leaves you with. When the engineers design a subdivision, for example. And they have to account for slopes. On the east side of Michigan, we're [...]
Yard Drain, French Drain System Install in Oakland County, Michigan You always want to have a guy on laser level. You want to make sure as you're digging the trench, that you have the right depth and slope, you need to drain the yard. When we're digging a French drain system, we always have a [...]
French Drain vs. Drain Tile in a Residential Yard in Michigan Once in a while, I get asked why does a farm field work, that's tiled? Why wouldn't that work in a residential backyard? So I'm going explain that to you really quick. Compaction of soil Is one thing, the farmer tills the top surface [...]
How NOT To Install a French Drain System in Michigan - French Drain Failure I'm looking at a failed drainage system. I want to point out a couple of things so that when you're shopping for a French drainage system or a drainage system in Michigan. Some things to know, some things to look out [...]
French Drain Man Rants About Contractors Cheating Home Owners in Michigan French Drain Man here. I just want to clear a few things up. I've been going out on appointments and one out of three appointments has a failed French Drain System. I've been on two appointments recently where the systems were less than a year old. [...]
Commercial Open French Drain vs Covered Drain in Macomb & Oakland County, MI What's the difference between an open French drain and a covered drain? A covered French drain has grass or some bed material over it, but an open French drain is a French drain where you excavate out all the dirt; align the [...]
Commercial French Drain Installation in Macomb and Oakland County, MI We're putting in a commercial French drain system. This commercial French drain system is to handle a high volume of water. Unfortunately, there's quite a bit of water that runs down into this building. So what we're going to do is pick up all that [...]
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