What is a French Drain System and What Yard Drainage Materials are Used in Michigan? What is a French drain system? A lot of people ask that. They hear the term and it's new to them. French drain system is when you take an area in your yard that collects water that's always wet and [...]
Why Gravel French Drains are Better with Corrugated pipe and Geo-textile Fabric We're in Macomb Township, Michigan installing a French drain system. When you're installing a French drain system, you want to run your French drain system in the lowest area. That's the collection area. In this case, we have a dwale, so we're in [...]
The Anatomy of a Gravel / Stone French Drain Installation We are installing a stone French drain or a gravel drain. That's the catch basin we cored through the sidewall and connected to. This is a French drain grid. This entire area was completely saturated, it's really flat. If you tried to run just a [...]
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