What is the Best Stone for French Drain
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- The answer may surprise you! Its not Round Rock. Don't gat duped into this trap. Learn from Chuck with over 35 years experience and 100 % success rate
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Timing is everything 😊 I am 50 feet into a 100 ft French drain digging by hand. Hope to be ready for stone , fabric and pipe by early next week if the weather permits in Ky. Thanks for the great videos. Be Blessed. Update: completed the drain and it’s working perfectly. Thanks for all the great videos!
Don't use fabric if you have a clay soil.
You have created informational legacy Chuck. Not just for french drains and all of its issues and solutions but on many other topics as well. I am sure that watching and learning community learned a bunch and will continue to learn even more. Thank you for sharing! 👍
I definitely agree with #57 river rock!!! Limestone leeches, coagulates, and eventually solidifies (so does iron slag) And having an appropriate barrier between the rock and top soil is also essential! I waterproofed a lot of basements for years, and you're absolutely correct with laying a layer of gravel under the French drain!!!!
Thank you for explaining the many uses of the 50-67 stone. These other companies are using round and telling people to use round, but once you drive on it, it is slippery. Round is only for decorative purposes. It has no structural or drainage purpose. You dont see round on drainage pond outlets do you? nope. Good call on the varied uses of it. i know now why they use limestone and why we see it so much. French drain man gonna be pissy lol. You just showed a huge part of drainage science that others push that will fail.
Yep FrenchDrain Guy swears by Round Rock --- Not what I thought would be what be is to be used for a new basement build drainage and back-fill function.
yep. Theres a reason we see limestone on every drain along the road. @@retiredperson4054
Tremendously valuable information when there is so much contradicting information from other TH-cam channels. The way you explain it makes total sense. Thank you for sharing your passion and knowledge for the sole purpose of helping others. We believe we can do it!
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Good information 👍🏽 Thank you for all of your advice and insight from your decades of experience.
This is exactly what i wanted to know. Thank you
Thanks Chuck! I bought the #57 stone..got a little worried when i saw other videos about round rock..there will lots of traffic around the french drain, so i made the best decision because of you.
This makes sense to me. They lock together like those tetrapod breakwater structures. There’s more than enough void in 57 stone.
Great video.... Thank You for sharing your experience.... I'm in Idaho and dealing with something similar..... This will be very useful information...
At the end of video it didn’t have the material to wrap it with that you talk about so do you need that. Thank you for your video it is such a big help I also was told round rock and that just don’t work that stuff moved all over the place but the fabric do I need to do that too the end of video I didn’t see it on that drain when he was putting the stone in
That #57 and #67 highway stone is just crushed and sorted limestone, so I'll bet it's cheaper than naturally rounded pebbles-save them for landscaping. The contractors I regulated always used #57 when filling trenches that they dug to conduct PVC vacuum lines under gas station pavement for gasoline leak cleanups-they also used it to backfill new underground storage tank pits.
Thanks Chuck !!
Thank you. I learn much from each video!
How come sometimes you use fabric and other times you only use gravel ?
Hey chuck, not sure if you saw from the last chat in the train spotting video, but I, use sensyne camera stands. I think you should take a look at some of them. 😃
I was taught that limestone rock is a poor choice for a French Drain because it will begin to deteriorate over time and eventually begin to pack down and restrict flow; instead choose river rock
4 years ago we could get this material delivered in 22 ton dumps at $30-$33/ton. Its now $58/ton. Inflation sucks
Should you used stones for a non perforated pipe down spout drain that includes some basins?
Planning out a DIY 4" french drain alongside 30 ft driveway using corregated pipe leading to ouutlet. Have LOTS of large (river but not perfectly round) 4"-7 "rocks on property I was hoping I can get rid of by using it around the pipe within fabric. They definitely have large gaps and dont move around much like the smaller rocks. You think these larger rocks would work?
Thx for your vids! Def helped me learn a lot and build confidence to take on a larger project in my back yard! Liked and subscribed!
Same applies around a foundation footer? 57 the best to use?
How do you decide to add the footer tiles inside or outside of a crawl space that floods?
You have a huge service area yet weI live outside of it. We need your help.
no idea why the algorithm popped this up, but im gonna watch it
So far a gray water laundry dry well, how would you mitigate the sludge and soap scum build up on these rocks or are the voidz big enough to handle it?
What issue do you find with river rock? Too small?
Ok, I'll use the gravel but top with Mexican beach pebbles as I'm running French drain along front of house so MBP looks better. Btw, Florida downpours render gutters useless, imo.
can tire derived aggregate be used?
Chuck, what is the best way to get in contact with you about starting a drainage business?
I'd like to trench around the entire perimeter of my home with EZ flow and discharge to swales in the back yard and make a rain garden. Rather than fill the trench with dirt, is it acceptable to fill with drainage stone alone? I feel that this would greatly increase the amount of surface water it could collect. This is important because the house sits slightly below grade on all four sides. It is a very old home that was likely built on top of logs directly on the ground, no crawlspace, no basement.
Difference between 57 and 67 stone? Which grade stay green fabric? Economy, premium or professional?
57 3/4" gravel. while 67 is 3/4" and smaller
Do you know where can I purchased this #57 gravel.
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here, if we pick up the phone and make a call, a dump truck brings us stone. better than tearing up our vehicles.
WOW thank you for this! I always felt angular #57 limestone would be best because there would be less movement. Round gravel offers NO structural support it in fact puts pressure on the structure around it!
I thought lime stone wasn’t recommended because it is eroded by the water running over it.
57 limestone is recommended behind retaining walls. We have done retaining walls with natural springs saturating them and the engineer actually recommended using 57 limestone as base course with the water literally running through the base.
To my knowledge there isn’t a difference in erosion between limestone and River rock. Water is the universal solvent and will ultimately erode anything. Just think the sand on the beach is really stone that has been pummeled by water over and over again.
@@john_linderLimestone is very soft and prone to erosion though. Granite isn’t much more and it’s much more durable.
Why is one video saying something and the next video is something something completely different Chuck?
7:43 That pipeline is way too shallow, it must be much lower and below the frost line and below the foundation base.
That's a walkway not a foundation for one. He's in Florida for two. I guess three is...we'll, your wrong. Share some more knowledge and teach him a few more things.
Wow. The misinformed spewing nonsense. Please don't vote.☮️
Frost line in FL is 0", so i think we're good
If it works it must be a Democrat