How to Connect Your Yard Drain, French Drain to a Storm Drain Catch Basin Okay. How do you connect corrugated play up to the Schedule 40 sleeve? Basically, they make a coupling that you glue onto the Schedule 40 and then there's an adapter that slides into that and you glue that in as well. [...]
Exceptions to Every Rule in Yard Drainage I'm in Troy, Michigan and I wanted to make this video for a few reasons, but the biggest reason is that I always tell you guys to collect the water downhill and sometimes there's an exception to every rule. Keep that in mind. There are always those exceptions. [...]
Use Water Drainage Systems for Outdoor Living Spaces to Avoid Problems When you build an outdoor living space, you have to be thinking about drainage. Always think about the flow of the water and if what you're installing is going to interfere with the flow of the water, damming it, go ahead and build a drainage [...]
Residential Yard Water Problems in Southeast Michigan There are all types of situations that cause residential water problems. Here we have a walkout basement. We have a backyard that's really built up all the water runs this way. This homeowner bought this house in. The previous owner had a landscaper hump these pavers up to [...]
French Drain Installation Tips & Tricks for DIY'ers from The French Drain Man When you are trying to come up with a yard drainage solution a French drain is one of the most effective drain systems you can install to improve your property and your drainage of your backyard. This is a French drain system [...]
How a French Drain Can Improve Your Property We just had a downpour and the water was running over the grass into the storm drain catch basin. It goes through the inlets of the grate on top. Now that that rain is over, this rain event is over. There is a lot of water in [...]
Why You Need to Enter the Sidewall of a Storm Drain Catch Basin With a French Drain System We are installing a French drain system. Just wanted to show you the anatomy of the French drain system. We have a heavy filter fabric that lines the entire trench. We put the pipe at the bottom [...]
How to Build a French Drain That Lasts in Macomb Township, Michigan We're installing a French drain system in Macomb Twp, Michigan. All this clay came out of a channel that we created, and we're hauling it off site. None of it's going back in that channel. We're replacing it with coarse washed rock. No [...]
French Drain Install to Storm Drain Catch Basin Macomb County, MI When you run a French drain system to a storm drain catch basin, not all the catch basins are sleeved, you have to core drill the majority of them actually. Here's a picture of a really nice core drilling of the sidewall of a storm [...]
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