Project Recap and Key Takeaways

all right guys let's recap what we had going on with this job site so although it was a French drain there were a number of components above this job that made it unusual and the reason why we're going to be covering this is because every single job that you guys go on is going to have elements that are out of the norm although the basic system of installing a French drain will always be the same every jobsite is going to be unique and so you're going to be able to have to understand what those elements are and overcome them now on this job site it was a tight site and it was super wet we also ended up installing multiple runs of French drain we stalled one through the middle of the backyard and one through the far end of the backyard and then one on the side yard as well and then another one on the other side and so because we had so much going out on this site it limited what we were able to do and how we were able to do that meaning we ended up installing this thing in a modular system we started at the street which was our lowest point it's also the deepest point of that French drain and if you remember that drain tile was buried literally almost waist-high it's not effectively collecting surface water when it's that deep but at the outlet point we no longer cared if it was collecting surface water all we wanted it to do at that point was get all the water that we had collected 200 feet away into the storm sewer inlet which was another unique characteristic about this job site typically all daylight a French drain at grade wherever gravity allow you put a grate over the top of it in this case we were able to actually connect into another drain tile system which was already perforated through us and into a storm sewer Inlet if you do have that on one of your sites don't puncture a storm sewer inlet without checking with your city first and getting the proper permits because you will need them another thing that was unusual about this site was how long of a run we had from our exit point to where our actual field was trust me guys we had worked a long time on trying to find a closer outlet and if we could of we would have but we weren't able to so this whole system ended up being well over 200 feet we had a 24 inch change in elevation and what we were the most concerned about was where our field was where we were doing the majority of the collecting we wanted that to be approximately 12 inches below the surface so we installed the French drain and then…