Enclosing Drain with Fabric and Adding Topsoil

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Fixing a Wet Lawn

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What happens here

After the drain rock has been added, the excess geotextile fabric that was laid up the sides of the trench is folded over the top of the gravel. This completely encases the rock and pipe within the fabric, creating a 'burrito' effect that prevents surrounding soil from mixing with the drainage material. Following this, a layer of topsoil is carefully placed over the folded fabric to create a base for the final landscaping.

Goal: Seal the French drain system and prepare for turf restoration.

Tools and materials

Rake — Leveling topsoil
Shovel — Spreading topsoil
Topsoil — Covering the fabric and providing a base for turf

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go over that in just a minute all right good morning everybody the uh last night we had gotten most of our trench or actually all of our trench filled in with rock today we're going to fold it over here get the top soil done on it get that filled back in get all that done on then put finish putting this drain box in that we're going to put in over here got still got to dig that trench out and we still got to dig this trench all the way out to probably where the skid is and yeah that's what we got to do today most of this should have been done yesterday but we didn't get started until late so then we worked late into the night then get out of here till like 700 getting all this in and get it in the ground cuz we had Rock on the trailer we wanted to get rid of and whatnot so we wanted to get all our Rock in so that way we didn't need to bring the TR Rock back out but we need to take all this dirt over here that we harvested from digging our trench out customer wanted some dirt but we not as much dirt is what they wanted and so we got to take

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