Buried downspouts are an essential defense against damaging water for our homes and yards. The most effective drainage systems run on a slope and move water quickly away from our homes. Today, we're going to teach you how to get more slope by using a 3-inch corrugated pipe. Using 3 in downspout pipe will give your [...]
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 [...]
How to Move More Water in Your French Drain How you can move more water with your yard drainage system? You know, obviously you want a pipe that has monster inlets. You want the water to be able to get inside the void that this pipe creates in the trench. That's what you're after. You [...]
What Can You Do When You Have a High Water Table? Okay, what you can do when the water table's too high. We came and we did this storm, this catch basin tap. We tapped this. We tapped this months ago, to be honest with you. We have just been busy and backlogged and now [...]
Can a French Drain Take In Gutter Downspout Water? All right, so while Marcello takes care of the strap on the gutter downspouts and trust me guys, when you go to these jobs, not all the gutter systems are in the best condition. They've had all kinds of crazy things done to them. So, Marcello, [...]
How to Modify Your Downspout Using FDM's Torrential Rain Kit Brian's installing the torrential rain kit. He was already up on the ladder and he cut a big opening in the gutter. It went from a six and three-quarter outlet to a 17 and a quarter inch outlet. So that's a huge funnel. Now this [...]
How to Run a Downspout in a French Drain Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. When Francisco digs and he can feel when he grabs a sprinkler line, that Kubota U17 is really sensitive and it, because it doesn't have a lot of breakout for us. That's actually a plus that you could tell when you grab a [...]
Perforated Drainage Pipe at Bottom of the Trench All right, everybody. I want to make sure that we don't confuse the DIY or the young contractor who gets caught in the French Drain Man spin cycle. Make sure that your perforated pipe is on the bottom of the trench and then your solid gutter pipe [...]
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