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Final Grading and Landscape Restoration

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Fixing a Wet Lawn

What happens here

The final stage of the installation involves meticulous grading and restoration of the landscape. The remaining excavated dirt is used to fill and level the areas around the trench, ensuring proper surface drainage away from the house. Existing sod, which was initially preserved, is carefully laid back over the filled trench. Alternatively, grass seed is sown, and the area is watered to promote new growth. The goal is to make the French drain seamlessly blend into the existing lawn, providing effective drainage without visual disruption.

Goal: Restore the landscape and ensure proper surface drainage over the completed French drain.

Tools and materials

  • Bobcat Mini Excavator Bobcat — Moving and spreading larger quantities of dirt for grading
  • Rake — Smoothing and leveling the soil for sod or seeding
  • Shovel — Fine-tuning dirt spreading and leveling
  • Grass Seed — Restoring the lawn over the trench
  • Sod — Restoring the lawn over the trench
  • Topsoil — Final backfill and grading

What they say

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wanted and so we got to take them sprint some of this around and then we got to take a lot of this out with us just got to get into it get this done then on to the next job so what's that I should be watching the French drain tile man on YouTube well here's the Scoop I've been doing French drain systems for 35 years so what he does and what I do have a lot of overlap and I'm not saying what he's doing is wrong at all but what I'm saying is I don't just limit what I do to one possible solution I always break down every single job into the three simplest parts or the three simplest solutions from easiest to absolutely you really want to keep water out this is what we're going to do over the top and I've done all of them and all of them work in the right circumstances but not one solution isn't going to be a fix off for all different scenarios and another solution to fix all for all the other scenarios so you've got to be able to apply the right easy solution to the scenario and I know I'm getting I'm talking a little bit over your head so we're going to break this down for you here and just make it as simple and easy peasy as possible for you guys to follow along and understand exactly what we're talking about all right good morning everybody back out for the the third day of a job that probably should have taken just one but I digress made a mess yesterday they put in this uh uh non perf for this drain box here that the gutter and the uh sub pump's going to dump into and that's going to run out went to there our French drain is running right along here here and then it comes out here and then we got to extend this further but we had to get beyond that so we didn't Crush that and bunch of other logistic stuff so now we just got to fill it back fill the trench and keep going so all right okay I'm going to pause the video and Rewind it to this section right here never ever ever if you live in a free zone hard pipe a down spout or an in interior drain tile into an exterior drain tile because during the freeze thaw cycle that can back up and destroy the piping and go right into your house and make a bad [Music] mess whoa dirt monkey what are you doing there's no drainage rock around that you're not burring that drain towel that's not meant to capture surface water that's actually a hard pipe off from the downspout which will run parallel but not in the French drain system it's a completely different system although the trenches and the dirt look the same and…

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