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. [...]
How to Install a French Drain in Harrison Twp., MI How to install a French drain system. You want to use an excavator, and you want to remove all the soil. This trench has already been excavated. The soil has been removed and trucked away, hauled out. We have a pipe at the bottom of the [...]
How to Build a French Drain Correctly in Algonac, Michigan How to build a French drain system is to take an excavator and trench so that the trench itself starts in low spots and slope your way towards the discharge. Now we like to go 14 inches wide on our trenches. We fill them with coarse [...]
French Drain Installation in Washington Twp., MI French drain installation. To start your French drain installation, you want to excavate the trench for the French drain with an excavator. Here you see an excavator removing the heavy soil and loading it in the buckets of mini-loaders. We have several, and they run it out to the [...]
DO NOT HIRE a Contractor Using a Trencher to Install a French Drain in Michigan Why excavate, build a big trench versus using a trencher that only is going to open up a six-inch groove to put a four-inch pipe in and some stone? The more stone, the more water you're gonna move. The more stone, [...]
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. [...]
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