Dealing with a soggy or flooded yard can be a real mess. Your dog is splashing in it. Mosquitos are swarming. And you may even invite some unwanted critters that are looking for new water source to call home. Right now in Michigan the ground is frozen, but before you know it this last snowfall [...]
Yard Drain, French Drain We have a lot of sheet water coming off this large driveway. It has a cobblestone open French drain, but here's the problem. We didn't do that. All this water is being discharged where this retaining wall is. This is a second wall too and it's leaning and it's failing because of [...]
Use more stone and an excavator to build the best French Drain, yard drain and dry wells Remember, the more stone, the better the French drain. That's why we remove all this dirt. Remove all this dirt and we want a nice flat sloped bottom to our trench. You don't want to leave a high [...]
Why We Need Yard Drains, French Drains - Macomb Township, MI We're in Macomb Township, Michigan, installing a French drain system. Wanted to talk about the slope that the developer leaves you with. When the engineers design a subdivision, for example. And they have to account for slopes. On the east side of Michigan, we're [...]
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