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Waste Removal and Drain Tile Replacement

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Lost $14,500 on this Jobsite 4/4

What happens here

Workers manually excavate and remove sections of old, corrugated drain tile that had become clogged and ineffective. The old tile is shown heavily encased in mud and roots, demonstrating a clear waste issue due to poor initial material choice or installation. This is replaced with new, solid, non-perforated drain pipe, which Blaine (via picture-in-picture) explains is connected to the existing embedded drain system in front of the wall. This corrective action ensures reliable water flow away from the wall, preventing future water damage and associated costs.

Goal: Old, ineffective drain tile is removed and replaced with a new, solid drainage pipe to ensure proper water diversion and prevent future clogging.

Tools and materials

  • Shovel
  • Utility Knife
  • New Solid Drain Pipe
  • Old Corrugated Drain Tile

What they say

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so we're gonna get that all get the rest of black dirt down seed it and then we're going to put some straw mat down that sucker's froze down holy sam is smiling but the birds and mice need food too right and whatever doesn't get turned into crater chow will grow in the spring so back to how much money we lost up to about the second soil correction we had lost six and a half days at a thousand dollars per day so about 6 500 bucks up to that point then we had the volvo breakdown then we discovered a third soil correction and then we discovered a fourth soil correction and then we had another snowstorm come in and then it warmed up again so it was back and forth see-saw see-saw see-saw and all of those see-saws cost us around 14 to 14 and a half days of lost time that's not billable to the customer because it wasn't their fault right here what blaine is doing is connecting the drain tile all right get this whole drain tile out of here the rest way out of here so the drain tile what he's doing is he's using a solid pipe so it can't plug up from the dirt we're pouring right on top that's not a french drain system but that is connected into the drain system that we have embedded in front of the wall as part of

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