Why Gravel French Drains are Better with Corrugated pipe and Geo-textile Fabric
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We're in Macomb Township, Michigan installing a French drain system.
When you're installing a French drain system, you want to run your French drain system in the lowest area. That's the collection area. In this case, we have a dwale, so we're in the center of the swale.
Now we're taking this French drain system to a storm drain catch basin. We went through the sidewall of that storm drain catch basin. You can't expect the water to come up and out of the system through the grate of the storm drain catch basin. This law of physics will not allow it to. Water seeks to be level. However, so upstream, yes, the grades higher over here than that storm drain catch basin grate, so some of the water would actually run out in over the storm drain catch basin grate into the storm drain catch basin. However, all of the, say first 50, 60 feet of the system would be always full of water, always holding water. So you want to go through the sidewall of the storm drain catch basin.
Now we never use a pipe with a sleeve or a sock on it. We use a pipe that has no rap, that's because we wrap the entire trench. The stone and pipe included all as one. The stone is going to try to migrate into the subsoil. The subsoil is going to try to migrate into the stone. So you need a soil separator. You want to wrap the entire system as one. This will preserve the system and this will make the system last for decades. Also, we put our pipe right on the, uh, this is a non-woven geotextile fabric. We lay it right on the bottom of the trench. The reason why we do that, we're 18 inches deep. That's where the tap is. We want to get all the water out of the French drain. We don't want water to lay in the bottom of the French drain to freeze, come wintertime when the frost goes to this depth and we can get away with it for a couple of reasons.
One, we're laying it on the fabric so we're not laying in the dirt too. This is not a pipe for building a septic field where you just have a couple of holes and align of have a couple of holes at the bottom. That pipe is designed to where you want to put stone down first, then put the pipe on it, and then more stone after. We have a pipe that has eight slots per valley, so we have eight inlets. They go around the pipe. So, you can just see all the inlets. This pipe has eight slots per valley. There's so much inlet for this pipe. It's mad crazy from the sides to the top, so laying it on the bottom not affect its performance and because of the non-woven geotextile fabric, we're not gonna have a clog. We're not gonna, we're not laying it on dirt. We're building our system fully contained [...]
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Hi Nice job on the video,Have a question from how far will existing ground water find its way to the pipe drain ,how many feet. thanks
Mike Drop!!! Loved this video. Super helpful. By by bean bag, hello gravel
Is this system good for heavy clay area? Poor drainage/slope and high ground water in my backyard
Man I didn't know that the pipes with 2 holes were meant to sit on stone. I'm learning so much!
As a French drain guy, is all of your work just drainage systems? Like does this pay the bills by itself?
I live in Texas, and this seems like a cool career path.
Thank you.
What do you recommend for a garage monlithic slab drainage around bottom on slab where it meets the ground?
I live in Oklahoma and have about 76 feet that I need a French drain installed can you give advice
What if you did away with the yellow pipe? Would the gravel, wrapped with the fabric, work as a massive pipe?
I'm trying to drain from a wet area and want to use solid corrugated pipe. Do I still need gravel and geotextile fabric? I don't want it to drain or absorb water along the pipe, only where it starts.
Just a solid pipe with a inlet basin with do.
How do I back fill the perimeter of a new house if it's 4' deep? Most contractors use dirt to fill... are you saying to fill the entire backfill wall with gravel? Thank you
@El Toro
We use plywood put stone on side towards the foundation and dirt on the otherside. You can pull the plywood up and keep working your way up
Is there a French drain certification that is not by NDS?
Can you give us the brand name for the non woven cloth and the drainage pipe? I don’t live near you or I’d hire you. Live in Washington State
@Evan
We list that in our online store go to
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FRENCH DRAIN MAN ok thank you. I appreciate the reply . Wish your business was in WA.
Where do you take the end of the french drain if you don’t have a storm drain near by?
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how far apart do drain lines need to be to drain clay in central pa?
7ft
Daft question but doesnt the geo membrane get clogged with soil eventually?
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This guy has tons of videos where he doesn't wrap the pipe, and claims it's the right way to do it. I see many videos of people on both sides of the argument. I will be wrapping my gravel and pipe. Makes more sense to me.
same
Thank Buddah I watched this video. I was about to go with the NDS EZ-Drain solution, but I kept wondering about all the debris that can clog it up.
My only question is what is that cloth material? Does it pass water easily?
I’ve tried everywhere to get non woven gel textile fabric in Portugal, all I can get is a thick cotton wool type to fabric, not sure what to do as import tax costs a fortune.
I'm your case just put a few inches of stone under your pipe.
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Wish you was in taylorsville ky. I d call you right now. No body here wants to do it
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If a novice was listening to your videos I think they would be confused on the points you are trying to make. You are not always clear, sometimes you are confusing, do I use fabric, or do I not use fabric, do I use rock or do I not use rock. A suggestion, when making your points in your videos take the time to show the right and wrong ways of doing the work with actual visual samples of the work being performed. Show us an image of the right way and the wrong way!...
Roy Jacobs that’s a great idea but he’s not gonna do that becuase he just films his jobs, TH-cam isn’t much income for him. And he’s not gonna slow his job down and waste material by doing it the wrong way
Could not agree more. He's not clear with explanations and poor unstable camera work makes his educational videos confusing to follow and understand his key points. Frustrating for us who are tyring to learn!