100 Times Easier than French Drain YARD WATER REMOVAL 

Whose product is it? Can we have a link? Awesome!

You guys came to my home recently and recommended a combination yard drain with a smaller French drain where I need it. That’s awesome that you guys council based on need and not profit.

Would really appreciate more videos of the systems working in light and heavy rain conditions. Thanks FDM 💪

Always great to see these installs, I wish I’d have found them a few years before I did.

What a CLEAN job as always! Other than the yard drains you can’t tell you were there!

Do you have a video that goes into how a french drain can capture sub-surface water and why it is better for that application than a yard drain?

Did I get anything from the video?? As usual I got a lot, including a full course, and esp for the two small jobs I have in mind. So much less grading & stone to avoid. Props for making all these components available on your website!!

Thanks for sharing this job! Would be great to see these systems in action after they have been installed. Thanks.

Every time I watch one of these videos, it makes glad I'm on a slope. Never a water problem. It all runs around the house and down to the creek.

Your jobs are so clean at the end. Very impressive work from your crew!

If you leave catch basin unwrapped, roots will get into the catch basin, no?

Thanks, that's what my yard needs.

I have a question. I’m in Texas and we have clay soil which I’ve read retains a lot of water. When it rains we get really bad water build up around our house and in our yard, but during torrential rainfall we have found standing water under our house (pier and beam foundation). So would you recommend doing a full French drain install since it seems we have to worry about subsurface water/moisture? Or would we be able to do this surface level drainage?

I replaced all of my pop ups with the French Drain Man pop ups here in Central Illinois. Neighbors keep asking where to buy them. I have sent several your way.

Beautiful job and the vid was perfect in terms of instruction and advice

Are you able to give me a step by step of your professional opinion of how i would create a drain around the side of my house (water leaks into the garage) 😅thanks in advance.

French Drain Man….how do you know if you need a French vs Yard drain? I’m getting water in my basement that’s coming in over the storm window rings and also - believe it or not - through the exhaust pipe of my oil burner that goes outside to a chimney. This only happens when we get really heavy rains. That yellow and red on the radar. We got ten inches of rain on LI last week and it just destroyed so much. Anyhow, since this only happens wirh really heavy rains, does that mean a French drain or yard drain in these problem areas? I would think a French drain would catch the water rising as the soil is saturated. Then agajn, the yard drain would also work once the water can’t be held anymore by the soil. Very confused. Lol

Ahh I see you moved away from NDS products LOL. Any chance you will get your fitting or you still will use ADS? Just kidding great video and a lot of intel here.

How often (in feet) do you need to install a catch basin/drain grate? Do you need a catch basin at every grate?

What are the mats you use to drive over and throw material on ?

“Beautiful job”…”Beautiful job”…..”really nice.”….”beautiful job”…..”these are professionals doing a professional job…beautiful.. just beautiful job…really nice…professional job…beautifully done by beautifully professional professionals doing a beautiful job in a beautiful way…in a nice and beautiful manner by professional guys who know that they are doing a beautiful job…just a beautifully beautiful job.”

How much did this system cost?

Where can we buy the product?

Thanks nice information. Will try to do my own and save thousands dollars

Are you using perforated or solid pipe?

I need a drain system

I need to catch water coming off the road down the driveway running up on to the apron of the garage. i have two catch basins on the apron but they are way to small. i was thinking of putting 4 by 4 36 inch plastic catch all along the front of the apron which would be about 30 feet. it would catch the water coming down the driveway. Any ideas or thoughts would be apprecited. Jim Ropp Ashland ,Ohio

Tell the guy on the mini-excavator not to dig over his blade, to have his blade behind him when using the arm/bucket. Also, driving that track over the dirt isn't packing it any more than you or I walking over it. You need a jumping jack to contact that soil properly. Otherwise you will have a ditch once all of that soil settles and finds its home.

Robert, thank you for your well produced videos and years of expertise! As a civil engineer, I appreciate the necessity of moving water off site. I showed one of your videos to my wife. She has no interest in french drains, but as a professional photographer, she said to watch someone who is passionate about their craft, does beautiful work, and provides a high level of service was satisfying to watch. Related to this video: Do you have a rule of thumb for the tipping point from just a yard drain/roof runoff system to a combo FD and surface drain system? Would you say any standing water vs. one day or two days after heavy rain? I have a relatively flat yard with very little drop to the street and no place to go in the back. I am in Virginia with heavy clays and often get standing water and soft areas for a couple days after rain events. I was planning for a combo system but this video made me rethink whether I need the FD, but I would rather do it right once. This is my first spring in the house, but I suspect our neighborhood was possibly built over some underground water sources 40 years ago, so we may have inherent subsurface issues particularly in the later winter/spring.

If I can't get access to the lower front yard? What about a negative slope? It's common for me to find backyards that slope toward the house, and a driveway or something prevents me from running the water to the low ground and daylight it in front of the house. Is it just a fact I have to send the water to a dry well 25 feet from the back of the house to a dry well where the yard surface has a higher grade level? Worst case the pop-up emitter on the top of the full well of water lets water run back on the surface towards the house (That emitter would have to be lower than the bottom of the leaf trap for sure. Is that the solution? ( I am in the same Nothern climate like you. I don't trust pop-ups in winter for downspouts)

For this project; Is a 3 in solid white tube just as good as the 4 in blue tubes if that’s the only option on the website with free shipping (non pallet)? Especially if you only have one line? Thank you for answering all questions. English is not my first language so I thought people can track my thoughts.

I have a negative grade from the back alley into the back of my house (my business office). However, the ground surface that butts up against the back of the house where the water flows into is made up of paving stones (part of the parking lot) and a concrete path (by the back entry door). So my plan is to draw water out of these areas into a french drain that will be installed in a 50 foot long swale between my property and my neighbour’s property. And I also know I will have to take these paving stones out and a concrete slab out to install what I thought was going to be a trench drain that would drain into the French drain. And keep in my mind I have to reinstall the paving stones and concrete afterwards due to them being part of the parking lot and being beside the entry door. I’m willing to put the work into doing this, and buy the material from you, but I’m hoping you will be able to tell me what to install underneath the paving stones and concrete? If not a trench drain then a yard drain? As well, you should know I live in Canada where I have to deal with slightly colder weather than in Michigan. The frost line depth is 3 feet. And I know for actual sewer and water lines contractors have to go down 6-8 feet deep. Thanks. -Dean

This is exactly what I am going to build. Do I need a catch basin for every downspout

Is it worth it to put a waterproof coating on the foundation and footer as well as yard drainage to get maximum protection? My crawlspace sits significantly lower then grade, its a post and beam setup in the crawlspace . The neighborhood is sloped with us being one of the last houses at the end of the street. We are catching the water from all the houses ahead of us up the street. Theres an interior french drain with sump pump in the crawl space. Lots of groundwater gets in there as well as surface water in the yard. I want to protect on the outside as well. The grade in the yard has negative slope as well. Yard is not very big maybe 1200 sq ft. Im thinking exterior french drain with some catch basins possibly as well as another sump for the exterior. Whats your input? Appreciate it, your videos are top notch!

Do you usually require town permits for building yard drains? - Love your videos man!!

Interesting..Surface Drain compared to French Drain

Interesting. Makes scene

Having the downspouts run out will solve about 90% of all that water. So I know with catch basins it will definitely eliminate the rest of the water. Why not put filter cloth under the rock where ya putting each catch basin… helps the mini dry wells last even longer.

So I have a customer that I know needs a yard drain and not a French drain, do I always want to tie the downspouts to the yard drain system?

What do you do in areas with very high groundwater? Continuous pumping?

I always thought that you had stated not connect any other drains to your roof drain line? Does that only go for a French drain along with a roof drain, meaning the yard drains are OK with a roof drain?

MY yard has a little negative slope to the street with about 50 feet run. I have no ditch to dump it into. Is it ok to use a riser at the end of the run to my emitter? Will the water still get up to the emitter with having the riser? Thank you for all the videos

In the sub-tropics we need a separate dedicated pipe for groundwater as best management practice in order to prevent gutters from overflowing and gushing the yard drains in extreme storm events

Can someone list the name of main pipe and size along with others materials needed. Thanks

Is this cheaper or digging that same trench (not as deep) and putting in a dry creek bed?

Is this 4 inch corregated pipe with 4 inch risers in the system?

these systems and products really have no equal that i can tell. plus made in usa

Wow this is exactly what we need at our house. We have standing water after ever rain and winter melt. All the gutter drain spouts need to be buried and all directed away from the house. Our neighbors run off comes into our yard also and our backyard becomes a pool. Wish you all were her in Kansas!

I have a hill on the back of my house and when it rains it collects water so it becomes very muddy and very saturated for days. I was going to put a concrete walkway in and a swale, but really do not have a place to move the water only to the front yard which is also a problem for my neighbor. What would you suggest?

What kind of tape is that on the connections?

How do the yard drains do in clay soil?

Is there an adaptor you can use to connect with the gutter if you pull out the 2 by 3 downspout and replace it with a bigger downspout

What brand of matt yard protection is that it's awsome..

Install gutter guards

FDM, what is going to happen when the water freezes in there? I've been trying to figure out the answer to that question for a long time and most examples are in area with out persistent freezing temps. In MI they'll be having the same problem I do in MN: the entire system is going to freeze up and sun melt has nowhere to go. I've seen downspouts solid with ice and water leaking out the seams which then burst under ice expansion