Most People Make These 2 Mistakes When Building a French Drain

Most People Make These 2 Mistakes When Building a French Drain

1. One of the biggest mistakes when it comes to building a good drain system is people take the excavated dirt, they'll put the pipe in the ground and then they'll put the dirt back on top of the pipe. That's the worst thing you can do. If the soil was any good and it was permeable, we wouldn't be here to begin with. So when you take that non-permeable soil and you excavate it out, you want to haul it off the job site. You want to put a good permeable pipe with some stone in that drain system.

2. Never handle dirt twice. That's the best advice I can give to a DIY. Once you remove the dirt from the trench, try to take that dirt to its final resting place. Too many times I see diyers piling the dirt up alongside the trench. Now you got to handle that dirt again and it's even harder to handle the second time. Because instead of just cutting it out with a shovel you now have it all clumped up alongside of your trench and it's stuck in the grass.

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Most People Make These 2 Mistakes When Building a French Drain

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