I just wanted to talk about our sump pump duplex model. The reason why I like our duplex model - and I really liked the Bad Seed for outdoor use - it's phenomenal. I like putting each pump on a separate breaker so that I don't have to worry if a breaker gets thrown, somebody's [...]
Install Your DIY French Drain or Hire a French Drain Contractor From Spring to Fall, we're doing yard drainage. Last year we went right up to Christmas and this year we're just going to go until he can't get a shovel in the ground. It seems like now that we raised awareness, more and more [...]
How to remove Yard Water When French Drains Are Not Allowed in St. Clair Shores, MI It's rare to run into this where a city or village will not allow you to run a French drain. If you're on a lake or a community that's predominantly on the lake, the worries are you're going to [...]
Installation of New Sump Pump Discharge Line in Washington Twp. We are in Washington Township, Michigan installing a new sump pump discharge line. We laid plywood all the way to the back so that it spreads the weight of our machine and we don't damage the turf. We also have plywood down to put the [...]
Outdoor Sump Pump - Don't Use Bark Mulch With Your Drainage System This is as calm as the lake will get right here. The lakes haven't froze this year and they have been extremely angry. We always recommend that you put decorative stone around if you have a system. In this case, when the water [...]
Using a Sump Pump / Lift Station for Lake Lot Yard Drainage We're on Lake St. Clair and we're in Chesterfield, Michigan on a lake lot. We're setting a six-foot lift station. We went around this home with a curtain French drain because water was finding its way into the house and we built a [...]
Sump Pump Line Installers & French Drain Installers -- Experience Matters! You see in a lot of our videos how I talk about how trees lift the ground. They'll lift sump pump lines. They'll live French drain systems. You can see the sidewalk here, how it's raised right by the tree. As you get near [...]
Put a Yard Drainage System in BEFORE Building Dirt Up To Avoid Damaging Your Structure When you have a building that's too low and the water's getting inside it like this garage. Now there's a failed sump pump system put there. This is Michigan and you can't go that shallow. It's just a regular house [...]
French Drain, Underground Downspouts and Backyard Sump Pump Needed Before Fill Dirt! This used to be a 48-inch fence. 48-inches this once was. As you can see it's 26. Okay, so what happens here is a neighbor raises the dirt and the driveway on their side. Then the other homeowner has to do the same. [...]
Macomb County French Drain 4" Pipe vs 6" Pipe We're in Macomb County, Michigan building a French drain system, we're putting in a 6" pipe. We started out at 16 inches wide, ended up at 24 inches wide at the end of this run. A 4" pipe is capable of moving 240 gallons per minute. A [...]
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