What's the Right Slope for a French Drain? French drain slope. When installing a French drain you have to make sure that you have the right slope. In a case where you don't have any drop at all but you're flat, water seeks to be level. You can still work with that. But in most cases, [...]
Outdoor Sump Pump and French Drain Installation Algonac Michigan This is an outdoor sump pump installation to take care of yard water. The backyard is seven inches higher than the front yard. The front yard is made up of about three acres. There was nowhere for the water to go. There are no ditches in [...]
Outdoor Sump Pump Will Protect Your Michigan Property And Your Health It's February in Michigan and we had a warmup, all the snow's melted, a lot of flooding, it rained all day yesterday, all last night, still raining today. They said that if this was snow, it would've been 40 inches of snow. So it's [...]
When Hiring a Drainage Contractor in Macomb County, Do This! What to do when hiring a contractor to do underground pipe to help you with the drainage problem. Well, the first thing you do is take pictures. The very first thing you want to do when hiring a contractor to do underground pipe to take [...]
Outdoor Sump Pump French Drain Hybrid System Algonac MI I want to show you a job that I did last year. I wanted to show you how the homeowner is benefitting from the install that we provided them with last year. There's a kayak, I guess they use that to get from the house to [...]
Backyard Outdoor Sump Pump Installation in Harrison Twp. MI This is the discharge of a backyard sump system. Let me walk you through it, show you how it works. You can see how much water it's moving. It's very active. This is January in Michigan, and we had a lot of rain earlier today. We're [...]
Outdoor Sump Pump Installation in Oakland Township MI We're in Oakland Township, Michigan, where we installed a backyard sump pump system. The yard was really flat, so when you would have hard rains, and the water would start to collect, it would just work its way up towards the house, eventually flooding the walkout basement. [...]
Downspouts Buried Underground with Solid Corrugated Pipe When talking about burying downspouts, this is a question I get asked often. Why not use smooth wall storm and sewer pipe? Here in Michigan, we have weather conditions that create, well what you see here, a frozen downspout. This is frozen completely, you can see where the [...]
Walkout Basement Outdoor Patio Drainage System in Oakland Twp., MI We are at a home in Oakland Township, MI where water was getting into the basement. What we did is, we built a brick paver patio that slopes away from the home. We then put in this retaining wall and backfilled it. All the water [...]
Why You Don't Use A Trencher to Install a French Drain in Michigan In all our videos we're always comparing a trencher to an excavator. Here's a picture of a trencher tearing up the grass, ripping through all the sprinkler lines, and just creating a very, very small groove to put a four-inch pipe in. [...]
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