Gutter Adapter Tackles Common Drainage Problems When it comes to roof runoff systems, water velocity is key. Your roof runoff system should be designed to move water at maximum speed and safely discharge it away from your house. However, if your gutter adapter isn't vented, you could lose the necessary velocity to clear the line and [...]
How Do I Keep My Buried Downspouts from Freezing? I'm going to show you what we did to prevent freeze-up in the wintertime and answer homeowners' question, "How do I keep buried downspouts from freezing?" Michigan homeowners have enough to worry about in the winter, from ensuring their homes are properly insulated to maintaining their [...]
How Do You Size Your Buried Downspout System? Whether you’re a homeowner getting a buried downspout professionally installed or a DIYer installing your own, you should know some critical factors before your shovel hits the soil. French Drain Man has provided drainage tips on everything from the fabric, the slope, and the pipe to use. But [...]
Standing water causes a myriad of issues for homeowners including flooded basements and crawlspaces. Underground downspouts can provide homeowners with a DIY-friendly, low-maintenance solution to prevent those issues. As the yard drainage experts, we have 5 critical tips to follow when installing your DIY underground downspouts. 1. Always Use Pop-Up Emitters When burying downspouts, [...]
Protect Your Michigan Home by Making Drainage Problems Priority We're here at a job site in Southeast Michigan where the homeowner had an inferior drainage system installed. It was just a little four-inch inlet with a solid pipe out to the lake. It failed. And unfortunately the widow, she ended up with a bunch of [...]
Hire the Best Drainage Contractor in Michigan For the best drainage contractor in Michigan, give French Drain Man a call. One in three jobs that we do, we're tearing out a failed system. Thirty-five years, our first system is still working as good as our last system, three and a half decades later. Give French [...]
Why Contractors and Homeowners Need to Communicate 10 days ago I shot a video standing right about here. And we were talking about how we are digging a canal and we were working night and day. I was on the night shift because working the dirt was great. It was a dream and as a [...]
We are yard drainage contractors installing a French drain in North Oakland County, Michigan. We're taking that French drain to this storm drain catch basin. We'll dig down 18 inches and we'll core through 12 inches of concrete where we'll do a nice clean tap and use hydraulic concrete. We will put in PVC schedule [...]
What Yard Water Drainage Contractors are Doing Wrong - The Do's and Don'ts What are the mistakes that I see your drainage contractors making? I'd say the number one mistake that I see, they don't put enough stone in their drainage systems. It doesn't matter what they're building for a drainage system. If it's a [...]
Professional Yard Drainage Contractor Explains How Yard Drainage Works We are professional yard drainage installers, commercial and residential French drain installers. I wanted to go over one of the things that we run into a lot in the areas that we service, which is North Macomb County, Michigan, North Oakland County, Michigan, St, Clair County, [...]
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