Installing drainage in my yard to channel standing water

[@michaelnicholson4166]

Haha the frogs were fresh and the baguettes were crispy with this one... love it

[@lawndreams5952]

That’s what it’s all about legend!!

[@Debigchudfugger]

I came for the tutorial I stayed for the commentary. Your offsides there’s onto it mate. Days just started and she’s on smoko!

[@lawndreams5952]

Haha mate!! You know it lol

[@comeflyanddrivewithmeandut5326]

Nothing beats an Aussie telling you how to do a job Simply the best. 👍👍👍👍

[@lawndreams5952]

Haha thanks for watching mate 👍

[@andrewcope7585]

Geez....just missed cutting through the lead on the grinder. Lucky man.....great job 👌

[@Good_559]

I'm supposed to be working and your video has me procrastinating. Well done mate.

[@lawndreams5952]

Haha gold!! 🤌

[@BonnyCroft]

Great job, we have just moved and tackling a back yard problem with this, but slowly with the help of some professionals we are getting to the bottom of it!

[@lawndreams5952]

Nice one great to hear!! Good luck with it

[@LawnJourneys]

That was one serious undertaking. Impressed.

[@lawndreams5952]

Thanks a lot glad you liked it ✌🏻

[@ericmccolough2482]

Good video. Loved the jokes too. After digging and before the gravel, some put a non-woven geotextile fabric in the trench to permanently separate soil and gravel. Some even use the socked ag pipe too.

[@lawndreams5952]

Thanks mate glad you liked it!! Thought about the geo textile French drain but took the lazy option lol

[@1PricelessShot]

That saw blade is finished now nice work fun to watch

[@lawndreams5952]

She’s cactus you reckon?! Cheers mate glad you liked it!!

[@1PricelessShot]

@@lawndreams5952 Cactus 🤣

[@TheLawnTools]

Nice work! That was a big job! I’m needing to figure out some drainage myself. 🤦‍♂️

[@lawndreams5952]

Thanks a lot man! I’m sure you’ve got a mechanical trencher in your shed somewhere 😆

[@donslawns1]

Well done bro!! 🤘🏼 you made light work with the beefy grinder. Also- great points for anyone looking to help their drainage situation. 😎

[@lawndreams5952]

Cheers main man!! Glad you liked it. Yep that grinder is a beast!

[@danb7013]

Legend.. thanks for the info. Will diy my storm water after this vid.

[@lawndreams5952]

Good luck mate

[@MrSlavaoat]

Well done with the job, please drop the music noise.

[@jasonpapworth1756]

Great video. Not all hero’s wear capes

[@lawndreams5952]

Thanks for watching legend

[@rainman6339]

Been hangin for new content from the great man, thanks for another ripper! Lovin the covid cut too 😆

[@lawndreams5952]

Haha mate it’s the business I’m tellin ya!! Glad you liked it mate 🤙🏽

[@supasamoa1]

27/2/2022 floods brisbane be watching you definitely 🌧⛈🌦

[@phatho683]

Fresh cutz bro, looking good

[@lawndreams5952]

😆😂🤣 cheers man 🤙🏽

[@rainman6339]

Well done lawn dreams, nice video!

[@lawndreams5952]

Cheers all time legendary status

[@jon.bennett]

Don’t know why I watched that as I don’t have drainage issues, but that was an entertaining 14 minutes. I’m trying to work out where you are. Definitely not QLD or WA. Not Adelaide as you would be trying to bottle the water. I reckon Melbourne. I’ll have to watch some more vids. Cheers

[@lawndreams5952]

In melbs mate! Thanks for taking a look, glad you enjoyed it!!

[@RangaPirate]

Hahahah. Love the humour. P1ss funny, as well as informative.

[@lawndreams5952]

Thanks a lot! Glad you liked it 👍

[@markkearns6231]

Great job with the drain. What a shitty job! Having the pro concrete fella lend a hand would have been a welcome surprise! Hopefully you see the benefits from your labour!

[@lawndreams5952]

Cheers mark. Yeah was a fantastic surprise! The first beer I gave him was room temp accidentally however 😆 corrected that quickly with an icy one however

[@Rusty_Gold85]

" Dodgy Brothers " was a comedy send up of those really bad car adverts with Men with no sense of style . They become part of folk lore in the burbs

[@garryn123]

Good job mate...inspirational! ;-)

[@lawndreams5952]

Thanks mate ✌🏻 got there in the end

[@camilledammasch3648]

The customer probably felt sorry for you when he saw you ordered a truck for 0.05m3 of concrete that you could have mixed in a wheelbarrow, and saw you didn't have concrete tools 😆

[@lawndreams5952]

Work smarter not harder is my motto lol

[@ryang2940]

Good video!

[@lawndreams5952]

Thanks bro glad you liked it! 👍

[@anthonyb8208]

That was great mate, nothin worse than soggy baguette and soft frog. Love the humour. All you concreters and plumbers take note. 🙄

[@lawndreams5952]

Truth brother!

[@maicimyoshiki9715]

Very nice video! I support you.😉🔔🔔

[@lawndreams5952]

Thanks heaps! Glad you liked it 👍👌🏼

[@OilBaron100]

Why not wrap the gravel in geo-fabric, to prevent it getting filled with soil?

[@traceystone8729]

Delighted to have found this video. Love your sense of humor. Question, after the drain was that rock you placed on top and then the grass? Thank you.

[@lawndreams5952]

Glad you liked it Tracey! Yep was aggregate/rock on top of French drain 👍 the drain has copped a fair few tests and works a treat!

[@joeshmoe7789]

Where was the water coming from? I would've liked to see what was on the other side of the fence.

[@lawndreams5952]

Slightly elevated driveway mate

[@raczyk]

Is this required by law? I'm in toronto, canada. And want to install a garden bed against fence, do I need a drain system like you've installed to move water along the neighbours babckyard along?

[@VgniK88]

Tip for ya brah dig backwards n it’ll be a lot easier 😉

[@lawndreams5952]

Thanks will give that a crack next time round! Hope your turf laying went well mate!

[@scottred6313]

Great vid mate. What was the go with the 4 wheeler?

[@lawndreams5952]

Thanks mate. No idea! My guess is it’s a mapping vehicle or similar judging on the way it was kitted out. Or maybe a sheriffs office vehicle 😬

[@freeman7788]

Ya mate always cut forward with the saw ya can see ya line clearly and ya less likely to fall on ya ass while holding a 9 inch...

[@lawndreams5952]

Good call cheers brother

[@freeman7788]

@@lawndreams5952 25 years metal fabricator site pressure welder and engineering....Always have the contact point of the blade 90 degrees to the direction of the grinder so if the blade catches it punched forward not up towards you and also when ya get good technique ya can aim the sparks as when ya get the sweet spot the grinder does all the work...

[@Semaj.18272]

Ur a funny knt lol .. mate don’t u have to have a high point snd a low point in the trench ? How did I manage to measure that . Wanna install around my house foundation on one side of the house and tap on the corner gutter storm pipe

[@lawndreams5952]

Hey man I had natural fall towards the street which seems to work well. I guess bog flat ground you may need to incorporate fall into the trench to get water moving?

[@jasongiovanni9545]

Hope you and fam are doing well in Melbourne mate ps when you have time make a new vid :D

[@lawndreams5952]

Thanks mate! Got one in the oven, just got to finish the edit 👍

[@TM-bp6pj]

How do you get the baguettes to round the corner?

[@lawndreams5952]

Plenty of butter

[@aengusryan5948]

how do you run a pipe under a footpath without digging up the path. I could do with running my drainage out to the stormwater outside.

[@lawndreams5952]

Hey mate I rammed a smaller dia PVC pipe through a larger, partially blocked ceramic pipe. A combo of high pressure garden hose and hand digging from either side under the path also works if no existing conduit (have done this for irrigation)

[@aengusryan5948]

@@lawndreams5952 ah, very wise. I'll give it a go someday

[@mrollivetti]

Why do you use this flimsy crahable dounspout extension material instead of a strong, peforated pipe?!

[@lawndreams5952]

Was cheap and accessible 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@josephj6521]

Great work. 👍 Can you get some footage of it working during heavy rain? Would love to see it in action! Digging is very hard work! Have you installed the new gate?

[@lawndreams5952]

Thanks mate! Yeah it hammers out, will try link something in some time 👍

[@lawndreams5952]

Oh and gate is on hold man, got a few other things on the go. Thanks for watching! ✌🏻

[@joeshmoe7789]

You won't see anything during heavy rains. A drain like that attracts water already under the ground to dry the underneath. A drain like that does most of its work in the days after the rain.

[@Rusty_Gold85]

Also if cutting lawn use an axe to make lines

[@lawndreams5952]

Great idea!

[@heatherrose3680]

I am interested in the little black covering/sock for the French agi drain - what would be the continental name for that? le pantalon, per'aps?

[@lawndreams5952]

I believe it’s either le stockage or resille 😆

[@aussiegirl654]

With all the rain we have been getting here in Australia lately how did your drain go ,did it do the job?

[@lawndreams5952]

Yeah works a treat and ground drains perfectly. I’m a bit more south than where the terrible floods are happening at the moment however. Thanks for watching 👍

[@snoopfobz]

Ag pipe does it need gravity flow or just level will do the trick ? Thanks man

[@lawndreams5952]

Need a bit of fall/gravity and an outlet

[@gigante87]

How did you run the pvc under the footpath?

[@lawndreams5952]

Through the existing terracotta pipe. Took a bit of force as the terracotta wasn’t great. May have cracked some PVC in the process. Was a 3m length so had to trench back into the front yard to get it through

[@omar8514]

hi how's the install going/working without geo fab. just asking as everyone landscaping store trying to sell it to me thanks

[@lawndreams5952]

Hey mate yeah going fine a while on, fully patent, good flow/drainage, all good 👍 I remember the geo fab not being cheap

[@omar8514]

@@lawndreams5952 I'm just hearing the geo fab gets blocked over time and back to same issue

[@lawndreams5952]

@@omar8514 yep I read the same also prior to commencing project

[@omar8514]

@@lawndreams5952 thanks mate for your reply

[@cathyr1192]

hah the gravel is probably ore effective tham the slotted pipe

[@lawndreams5952]

Probs!!

[@danielevans8232]

Wrong wrong wrong!!!! As a plumber This makes me sick!!!

[@lawndreams5952]

🤮😝

[@p0k3r86]

Cost?

[@lawndreams5952]

About $350 from memory

[@carolynm9638]

You didn’t show how you hooked your new pipe into the old stormy at the letterbox...?? C’mon mate.

[@lawndreams5952]

It was a brutal, uncouth process that may have some involved some ramming and a hint of pipe fracture 😬

[@carolynm9638]

@@lawndreams5952 ah fair enough I need to get into my concrete stormwater drain . I’m starting to think sledge hammer is my only option 🙄

[@lawndreams5952]

@@carolynm9638 diamond blade saw! 💪🏻

[@VgniK88]

Lmao 10mtr agi pipe only got 7 lmao

[@lawndreams5952]

I know right?! 😆