Don't use a drain sleeve pipe sock with a French drain system in Michigan This is a roll of pipe with a sock on it. When you're gathering quotes for a french drain in Michigan make sure not to go the contractor using pipe with a sock on it for a french drain system in a [...]
French Drain Install in West Bloomfield, Michigan: Trencher vs Excavator Right here we just installed a professional french drain system. You wouldn't hardly know it. All right here we go. Basically we cut the sod. We leave about two and a half inches of root on the side and we just fold it back. We excavate. [...]
French Drain Hybrid Solution Utilizing a Dry Creek Bed in New Baltimore, Michigan We're in New Baltimore, Michigan. Over 12 years ago, we met a gentleman who'd seen a concept at a restaurant that he was dining at. He basically wanted his outdoor living space to have a berm around it with a bunch of ornamentals. [...]
West Bloomfield, MI: Take pictures when having a French Drain Installed When hiring a professional French drain installer, always take pictures after a heavy rainfall to show him the problem areas. That way when they come out to quote the job, it could be dry, it could be several days after that rain and that water [...]
Have the right equipment to install a French drain in Michigan Having the right equipment to do a French drain in Michigan is really important. A lot of the areas that we put French drains in are hard to access. We have your traditional skid loaders as well as these mini skids. We're trying basically, to [...]
Bruce Township French Drain - Every Home Needs Water Management We're in beautiful Bruce Township, Michigan. The site we're working on, look at the view. Look at the elevation! You wouldn't think you'd have a water problem. But yet, you have to manage water just about on any lot and on any home, there's water coming [...]
Oakland Township, MI: French Drain System Completed We're in Oakland Township, Michigan. Yesterday we installed the French drain system between two homes. Between two homes and suburban lots that's where water collects. If its heavy soil, and has a little bit of slope, it needs some help. It needs some help getting water out of there. So [...]
Growing Grass Over a French Drain System in Michigan I get asked a lot, how do you grow grass over the French drain? I'm going to show you what we do. Basically we already have our pipe in, getting all the 6A in. We're a little further along on the other side of the house. We're basically going [...]
French Drain Installation: Oakland County & Macomb County, Michigan There's a lot of different pipe out there for French drains. I prefer the deep saw cuts. The way we build our French drains, they're not gonna plug. This not gonna let dirt in. It's gonna move more water. That's what I want. We like to use [...]
French Drain System: Oakland County & Macomb County, Michigan All right, this is what it looks like after a storm basin has been cored. We still need to use hydraulic cement to put in a piece of schedule 40 PVC that we'll hook up to with corrugated plate for a French drain. But I just wanted [...]
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