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Always Use an Excavator When Installing a French Drain in MI

2018-04-27T09:43:21-04:00By |Categories: Michigan French Drain|Tags: , |

 Always Use an Excavator When Installing a French Drain in Michigan When installing a French Drain System, always use an excavator. An excavator will create a really large channel that you can later fill full of stone. This will remove water uninterrupted. Do not use a trencher. Systems that are put in with a trencher [...]

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Why You Don’t Use A Trencher to Install a French Drain

2018-01-08T16:51:35-05:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , |

 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. [...]

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How to Build a French Drain Correctly in Algonac, Michigan

2017-09-29T00:17:31-04:00By |Categories: Algonac French Drain|Tags: , |

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 [...]

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DO NOT HIRE a Contractor Using a Trencher to Install a French Drain in Michigan

2017-07-10T04:40:34-04:00By |Categories: Michigan French Drain|Tags: , |

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, [...]

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West Bloomfield, MI: French Drain Install Trencher vs Excavator

2017-06-13T01:43:35-04:00By |Categories: West Bloomfield French Drain|Tags: , |

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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