How to Build a Better French Drain Digging SHALLOW - Diy 3" corrugated pipe

[@Garbo4u]

Beautiful work guys ,I just ran three separate lines behind retaining walls and used this method with the fabric .I'm in Australia our slotted pipe has a sock on it so I presume it will be even better as no dirt will enter the system at all 20mm metal as we call it was also put in 3/4 the way up .

[@keithp115]

This work intrigues me. No house is the same and requires proper planning beforehand. Great job guys!

[@ImagingPro]

I love your videos and explanations. I wish I could afford to add these around my house. Thanks for your great content!

[@FRENCHDRAINMAN]

With water being silent and the leading cause of foundation damage manage it properly. Protect your castle brother. We make it a priority. Thank you for commenting and your kind words. We don't make garbage products and the quality is what you are paying 🤷 for. ✌️

[@Jack-1212]

Like to see them get some gravel between those pipes they smashed in there

[@SmileyGregB]

In my area majority of landscape companies claim they perform drainage services 😂. Drainage specialists, and landscape specialists are very different. Painfully I saw similar socked pipe thrown in 3"-18" silty clay soil, line bellies, no laser or even string grade, backfilled with same silty clay soil, then 3" dirty gravel on top, silt plugged the trench and lines quickly, and water pooled on surface, so landscapers came back and not joking, dug holes where water pooling, Teed into the compromised plugged socked pipe adding catch basins to same line to drain pooling surface water, so now rain scoured bare silty clay silt water drains into basins, plugs them, and the corrugated drain pipe inside, and since now clogged inside, and outside, the water flows on the surface "over" the drains, rather then into the drains. So they came back to affected properties and tapped into those houses underground ABS gutter rain drain pipes in Order to get flow, no permits, no backflows, and worse the gutter drains go into public storm system dumping silty clay soil into storm system, and eventually lake. ☎️ Hello City Enforcement 😁

[@FRENCHDRAINMAN]

You had a lot to say 🙃

[@Buckeyejames]

I was not aware that you had 3 inch perforated pipe. Good to know

[@elbuggo]

Nor was I!

[@FRENCHDRAINMAN]

Have a new 3" perforated pipe coming in a few weeks. Best of both worlds

[@adamw934]

@@FRENCHDRAINMAN any updates on the new 3in perf pipe? What is new about it - more slots? I'm very interested in purchasing for my project. thanks.

[@darrinmc]

@@FRENCHDRAINMAN would you say that given the choice between a single 4" or 2 - 3" perforated lines a DIYer would be better off with the 3" since there is less digging?

[@rickmccl71]

been watching a ton of your videos. Still clueless on how to choose 4" or 3". I think I'll just buy your downspout kits and some wyes

[@FRENCHDRAINMAN]

3" is fine for 1 or 2 downspouts once you go up to 3 downspouts the main line has to be 4" pipe.

[@MaDGriZz78]

are your products recommended for a foundation footer drain 6-7' under the ground or just these shallow trench drains?

[@FRENCHDRAINMAN]

12ft Maximum depth

[@davidhooper1610]

How wide is your drainage cloth?

[@FRENCHDRAINMAN]

Non-woven Geotextile Fabric in 4 oz and 8 oz frenchdrainman.com/filter-fabric/ We use the 4 oz 5ft x100ft

[@0Zues]

How deep do you normally dig the start of your drains?

[@FRENCHDRAINMAN]

12" for 4" pipe 6" for 3" pipe to start a french drain

[@pigsinvasion]

@@FRENCHDRAINMAN What about the width if 2-4" pipes?

[@zohcold]

Wish yall were in California 🫠

[@FRENCHDRAINMAN]

Call local irragtion and landscape companies in your area. Many do drainage.

[@lavoz6816]

Why not pvc pipes ?

[@FRENCHDRAINMAN]

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[@Keith_Mikell]

I just seen a video trying to debunk filter fabric. They didn’t show the drain working or anything they used shovels in manual handtools for the whole job.

[@FRENCHDRAINMAN]

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[@Keith_Mikell]

@@FRENCHDRAINMAN and they keep posting. Dude has enough money to equip but is a cheap skate.

[@whobitmyname]

Okay so what is this unspoken controversy between top perforations or bottom? One side insists you lay the pipe on a rock bed holes down so the water can flood up into the pipe. The other lays its pipe at the bottom of the trench as a low point, holes up so the water floods down into the drain. Obviously I know which side FD Man is on, and I personally think it makes no sense to have a gravity-fed conduit with holes at the bottom.... but clearly these bottom-holers aren't total lunatics, so what gives?

[@FRENCHDRAINMAN]

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[@jaodaojjo]

It is actually very simple; if you want your trench to fill up with water before it begins to move away through the pipe, put the holes on top. Personally, I want the water to start moving out as quick as possible, so holes on the bottom. The pipe in this video is perforated all the way around, so it doesn't matter how you lay it in the trench. There is PVC pipe that has holes only on one side. Holes toward the bottom will always move water out quicker and not allow it to sit in your trench and soak down through the soil. 🙂