The French Drain Man is an expert in drainage issues teaching homeowners in water management. He has worked thousands of projects successfully removing water from properties. Over the years these clients have benefited and saved money in the preservation of home and property.
I just purchased all the essentials for down spouts and it seems the not quite a 90 and pop up admitter with restrictor plate doesn’t have a tight fit. Should I take a few screws to make them solid?
I have 3 ornamental trees close together at the back of my house with some pachysandra around them. I want to run a dual line 4” high octane French drain in front of them to stop water from running back to this area. What can I do to block the roots from growing into the pipes? Should I use a different fabric (or thicker) on the side that faces the trees, or use the copper sulfate that you sprinkle in the trench? Or any other suggestion? The land pitches slightly to that area, so I have to stop the water from running back there in big rains! I watch your videos all the time and am subscribed - you absolutely rule man! Wish you were in Connecticut!
I'm starting to get an education in yard drainage because the house I'm about to buy has some minor water infiltration issues in the basement. My goal is to make that 0 issues. Had two basement guys out who said all I needed was to fill the small cracks in the foundation. That made no sense to me, just a bandaid answer. What also doesn't make sense to me, a lot of these guys use pond liner in the trench, so water can't move in from the sides. Thanks for posting. Mark
Aewsome! I ran 300ft of perforated flex, burrito-wrapped with cobblestone, and topped with sand in my S.E. Texas backyard to create a way to get runoff from my neighbors out to the ditch in front of my house, creating the drop with risers on the sumps and drains along the way. The info put out here is fantastic!!
FDM , I am sure it’s been asked and answered but ; what rate of fall do you recommend in using your gutter downspout kit , 25 foot run , how much fall per foot of run ? Thanks
So you never hook up a knife cut or hole cut blue drainage pipe to a catch basin correct? You want the water to flow away from the house and carry the water away.
@FRENCHDRAINMAN i was thinking for a shed base! Using non woven Geo~textile 1st then top with crusher with mixed crushed stone 8in deep covering with a 2nd layer, adding the pipe then down the center and covering with¾ clean stone! The bottom 8 will be compacted and mixed with concrete mix to harden it up like concrete because it's swampy land. The next layer with 2nd layer gets the pipe without wrapping it so it can drain out from there! Out the back of the 4x6 downgrade! I'm installing a 12x20 shed over 14 X 22 base 2 4x6 doubled up in ground! I've done this other ways but in this soil I think this would work best! Any thoughts?
Great stuff. I've seen a few things that y'all do that I can use in so many situations. That sediment trap is one of them. I'm thinking about getting into draining specific landscaping jobs and this is how it's done professionally. My ways work but it can be done better. You have any videos about your bidding process. I would like to know if I'm leaving money on the table or if I'm charging too much on occasion. I'm in North Carolina
I ask specificly for a 25 foot cord, the installer got a shorter one, now I am 3 feet short of outlet and have to splice, or relocate outlet. At least the instruction book (pump book) shows it's "allowed".
There's definitely merit to what you're talking about, and I don't discourage it, but I don't feel it's necessary either. One of the reasons they make corrugated pipe corrugated is because of the ribs. They give it superior strength, so you don't need to pack stone around it if it's solid pipe. Now, if it's perforated pipe, you do need to have stone around it so that you can take in water and the perforations won't plug.
@@FRENCHDRAINMAN And that’s the type of pipe I was told to use the gravel on, to allow drainage from the bottom holes so that makes a lot of sense! Thanks!
@Spoderman5000 No, we do not use copper sulfate in a French drain, but we do use real copper metal. Next year, we will show you the technique that we've been developing.
Daylight it to the curb using a Neenah R-3262-3 curb opening. You can also have a pop-up somewhere along the line as a back up. Have to probably get a permit from the city to perform work in the right-of-way, and have a city inspector come by and check it when you're done, but that's what I'd do to have total peace of mind and minimal maintenance.
@FDM - Asking for a diagram which compares the connectors and pipes. Which auto-updates with new releases and snapshot of the prices. Maybe a flow chart where i can pull it up prior to confirming my order. The info is in your videos, but you are pumping out new upgraded versions of things and it's hard to to be 100% what the differences are for the whole system. It would be helpful to include item numbers or some way to confirm. My idea of this diagram would compare differences in kits, adapters, pipe sizes, flow rate, etc.. i Basically made a cart, did research, compared benefits with live cost, made a drawing. Saved the cart. Cleaned out my cart, repeated for different variations to ensure complete and compatible system. Why? I'm one of those DIY people who research everything, take notes, make spreadsheets, etc... I struggled with things like, a) does this connector go with high octane or torrential rain. b) What is the increase in benefit (gpm math) of bumping up from torrent rain 3" to using left over 4" high octane. c) Do I have all the fittings i need? Hope this helps the next. Love the products!
@joshmoore1292 3 inch works with any 2 x 3 Downs. Pout, in the country, I would caution the use of 3 inch in the tropical storm region for 3 x 4 down spouts. Long gutter runs and homes with a lot of roof top surface needs 4 inch pipe in the tropical storm region.
90% of the time the root system is much smaller than the canopy. Depends on tree and location but french drains are usually installed near homes where the roots grow very small due to irrigation.
why do you not put stone underneath the pipe also? i have never seen it done this way with the stone only above the drain, not below the drain… what is the benefit or advantage of doing it this way with no stone below the pipe???
I was told recently by a respected company in my area (Middle Tennessee) that you can use a subterranean insulation instead of dimple board. I'm not sure of the science behind that or the specs. I think it wicks the water away from the wall and gravity feeds the drain while insulating the foundation. Asking because the dimple board seems to be more labor intensive to install/complicated. What are your thoughts on using the insulation approach instead of dimple board?
I have limited experience with that. You need to do your research to get that right. It makes sense to me that you would waterproof the foundation before applying the insulation. But again, I haven’t done the research; I never do anything blindly. I’m always well-educated before I do anything. Thank you for your commenting and sharing
Yes, thank you for informing us. I for one do not wish to kill a tree because it's in the way. Man keeps destroying the very life giving planet we call home. Where is the love of our world? 💓
Very interesting. I'm a general contractor who does a lot of french drains and weeping holes in various places. It's disappointing to see this video because It happens so much. The cheap contractors will do this kind of work because it doesn't involve the true amount of work in order to get it done correctly.
Fantastic product! My only criticism of it is the door on the front should be such that if leaves build up inside, they can push the door open like a flap - that the door shouldn't snap closed. This way it is somewhat self-cleaning. But I guess with twigs and other crud, you'd have to periodically clean it out anyway.
For the leaves to fall out, the water would have to fall out. There are a lot of products on the market, and they all have failure modes. Ours was built so that it didn't have a failure mode.
This is a downspout line, a solid pipe. This video was not of a perforated pipe drain system. As all my videos have shown when using perforated pipe, I use the non-woven geotextile filter fabric that's been double-punched. ru-vid.com/group/PLjFCqaZ4v1BXWZPUFUNw6SMI64dtHlhzl&si=9QBHbHg8jr9oL86J
