What's The Best Way To Install A French Drain? (Millennial Version) | Apple Drains of NC
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- This was a fun, but important video for you to understand what is the best French drain installation process and whether you should use fabric or not use fabric.
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You hit the nail on the head when you said, "The clay stops the water, not the fabric".
You are so much better than your partner in Florida. 💯
Wish you had a much larger container to do full taco wrap with clay on outside of all and then the others without fabric for true conditions. Just would like to see that
The DIY can use publicly available information to better understand if they need surface inlets. Using NOAA for max precipitation rates & the USDA's Soil-Web-Survey for specific soil information you can better understand what any particular piece of land needs.
Example: I have a flash-flood risk of 4.5-inches (NOAA) with a soil k-sat rating of .4-1.4 inches per hour (USDA). So if my soil can only move 1.4 inches max per hour I'd need basins for the other 3.1 inches of a larger flash-flood, if I didn't want any standing-water.
Closing on a house in Banner Elk,NC with tons of water getting into the crawl. I plan on installing your recommended system with the surface drain. The house is on a slope and I was only planning on putting the surface drains on the high side of the house. How many surface drains would you recommend for 40ft and would you recommend putting surface drains along the side of the house also ?
Here is a question for you...what about how Shawn at Gate City Foundation and Drainage does it? Schedule 40 pipe with holes instead of corrugated and then he brings stone to grade. I know that doesn't look as nice in a yard...but it sure seems to work great! His systems handle the surface water and sub-surface water. And with smooth sch 40 you don't have to worry about clogging like corrugated. Plus the sch 40 allows the water to flow quickly away. Your thoughts?
Shawn does great work. Check out french drain mans newest video. He shows what happens to schedule 40 after a year or so. Stress cracks because of settling. Schedule 40 is awesome stuff, just not long term in the ground because it will not give with the heave and flow of the ground especially in clay.
@@drdrainz3941 Would you not suggest dual-wall for its smooth-inner-walls instead of Sch-40 for those GCF fans? There doesn't need to be a corrugated-vs-pvc when it needs to be corrugated-vs-smooth due to the physics.
@@SlackerU Great question. Depends on the slope from what I have learned. It is also not the most important thing to get every drop of water from the pipe. Evaporation will take care of the rest. We are not trying to dry the pipe but extract the maximum water from the yard. Cost and performance curves seem to lean heavy on a properly installed corrugated system for 95% of installs. Smooth wall corrugated on the outside has it's place in high weight traffic areas. Completely unnecessary in a residential yard.
@@drdrainz3941 Here in South Texas the counties don't & won't permit corrugated-inner-wall pipe installs. With most of the land here being under 2% slope a corrugated install is guaranteed to clog, according to manufacture install recommendations(NDS & ADS), therefore they can't be trusted to fully function throughout our rainy season where we see 25 inches of rain in less than 90 days.
It looks like crap the way he does it, and will still fail eventually. But it will work for a while. You can still have an open top french drain and wrap it in filter fabric. You just put 2 inch decorative stone on top of the filter fabric.
Great video! I’m in Massachusetts…what type of pipe do you suggest for a sump pump discharge pipe buried in the ground (discharging to daylight)?
From watching French Drain Man n Apple Drains, they use the geo fabric ,stone,pipe, stone n wrap the stone. Why did you use stone n then fabric. Is it ok to buy pipe from home Depot because FDM says its junk .
Your middle version, the water level was not yet up to the pipe…