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Install French Drain System

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Bad Start on the First Day

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What happens here

After excavating the trench, discover the existing sump pump drainage system was faulty. Two drain tiles were found, but neither was connected to anything or exiting properly, and one was full of water. Remove these old pipes. Install new perforated drain pipes, wrapped in landscape fabric, at the base of the newly excavated trench, connecting them to a new drain box. Ensure the drain pipes are sloped correctly to allow gravity to carry water away. This system will collect groundwater and divert it away from the house's foundation, preventing future water accumulation.

Goal: Establish effective drainage to prevent water build-up around the foundation.

Tools and materials

  • Shovels — Digging and clearing the trench
  • Drain Box — Collecting water from the downspouts and connecting to the drain pipes
  • Landscape Fabric — Wrapping the drain pipes to prevent clogging
  • Perforated Drain Pipes — Collecting and channeling groundwater

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together all right well since nothing ever goes it's not what happens the way you want it to we excavate it out for our wall and we knew this area would be wet but sounds to me like many many years back they had a sump drain sump system put in and running way out to the backyard cannot find where it exits there's a little bit of foam over these pipes right here and i wanted to put a new piece of foam over it and i popped off a little bit of the foam so i could square it up and realize that these pipes aren't even connected here this is right where our retaining wall is going to go um and uh yeah this might uh have to see where the try to figure out where the water's going at this point all right this is uh zach say hi all right he's the new guy gonna be helping us out here uh i hired him off instagram last time [Applause] we were talking this was just a uh not connected to anything there was two drain tiles going into one no connection sorry this wasn't on camera alex said he forgot to hook it up but we did a little french drain system for this to tie into there's a y now on on these pipes and then uh once he started digging this out we had a camera guy come out here and run camera up these two tubes here this one was dry nothing was wasn't doing anything and this other one right here was closest to the house was full of water couldn't see and then the sump pump that's on the inside of the house there's no outlet for it so that was nice we he ran a camera in there couldn't find it and then the drain tile that was the two were going into one was going out you got 10 feet root ball another 10 feet rip ball and then full of dirt so it wasn't doing anything so these people were having water just sitting in here so that's why their deck went up and down we got a little french drain system we're going to connect this up later but you can see how much water alex said this was a foot deep on saturday but now it's about an inch so um it's percolating into the ground and we're moving water out of here now and we're gonna get started on our wall technical timmy that's it that's technical timmy for you

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