HOW TO FIX NEGATIVE SLOPE - Home Drainage Tips
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- We have a home where we need to fix negative slope. Water is getting trapped between the garage and the house and the house is lower than the garage
All the water water would run to this crock and four inch pipe out to the street but it wasn't enough so dirt's been built up around this garage. It's rotted the wall of this garage and dirt's also been built up against this house and completely rotted all the building materials. We're going to grab up all the bulk water from the downspouts and we're gonna do a drain open french drain around this house.
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HOW TO FIX NEGATIVE SLOPE - Home Drainage Tips
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What kind of heater
i would love to see actual rain footage thats the best part of the videos other guys make is going and seeing it actually working is great
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I love that you used a quirky weird property that most of us would be too overwhelmed to attempt.
Great example of knowing your allowable tolerances and getting creative.
I think people miss that not all systems are cookie cutter
Bought your stuff Followed your advice on my own project. Quoted 17k by one contractor. DIY with your pipe and supplies with help from neighbor boys I was able to do it your way for 1500 bucks I thank you for your advice.
Good to see I was right telling the plumber NOT to add a check valve to my sump pump in the north. Kept insisting I add it and I was constant in telling him not to add it.
They just don't get it.
Great video, sir.
Electrically, I must recommend that weather-box encased protected exterior mounted GFCI outlets that govern exterior sump pumps should specifically be quality "WR" or "weather resistant" rated as standard kitchen/bathroom GFCI's will trip off at even the slightest sensing of moisture or water and often overlooked by DIY'ers and even many handyman "expert electricians".
Having those 1.5" discharge lines swooping across the side yard really seems like they'd get in the way, and potentially cause a problem with someone trying to step over them, having to mow, etc. Are there ways to have modified that set up if you needed full access to that side yard without the lines in the way?
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Yes. Stay Tuned this year I have many more to install and video. Thank you for commenting.
Two things I have to ask about - discharge pipes above ground between pump and fence? Tough for homeowner to maintain grounds in that area (cut grass, etc) and discharge onto driveway? I thought that was a no-no due to sheet of ice on driveway causing potential liability. Always learn from your videos and thanks for all the good information!
It is a elevated asphalt drive. No ponding. Water doesn't pool or stand on a elevated slab. Water will only be moving when it's above freezing and run off driveway. Any moisture on drive during a flash freeze shrinks, becomes practically none existing. Talk to the science guys about that. This is a fact and what I've learned. Hope that helps.
@@FRENCHDRAINMAN I would also think that at some point, even if the science resulted in an ice sheet on the driveway to some degree, the "lesser of two evils" would say "Get the water out/away from the house."
you thought wrong
@@Fattony6666 are you rude on all comments haha no need to respond I know it will be rude haha
That’s going to be one slick driveway in the winter. And where I live, ice would indeed climb up the output and block it.
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I need a thorough contractor like this in Florida...need similar work but these contractors are doing half way jobs
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Judging from the state of the property, owners are either old or not likely to maintain the system going forward. Interesting video - positive drainage is one of the major factors to look at when buying any property to avoid all this.
If I learned anything in my 35 years working outside of the home is even the house built up on the hill has water issues. The house up on the hill has a 100k - 200k in retainment to keep it from moving via gravity.
Great vid. I would still add a heater wire for the final run of pvc discharge to the driveway. Then you can say, boom no issues. Thanks again.
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Of course it does. I’m me.
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What vid did u send me?
Did this house have a basement? I seem to recall videos from a few years ago mentioning that curtain french drain trenches should be keep 18 inches (?) away from the foundation wall?
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Outstanding and educational I love the way you can teach us without coming off as rude
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Robert, Love your videos and have used many of your concepts in my yard! I have a new problem I am addressing. I have a spring near the rear corner of my home in Georgia. I dug a hole 3'x4' 2' deep. The water fills the hole to about 4 inches from ground level after pumping it out in about 40 minutes. I was thinking about making the hole 5' round, 5-6 feet deep and putting a sump pump basin with a lid on it with many holes around it. Putting rock in the bottom of the hole setting the basin in the middle filling the hole with more rock. The basin would have a 4inch pipe coming out the middle and I would connect it to an already installed drain line to the back of my property. Covering the rock with landscape fabric and putting dirt back over the fabric and planting seed. My hope is the hole will "attract" the spring water and ultimately go down the pipe to the creek at the back of the property along with other springs already piped that are constantly running water. My question is does the size and depth of the hole make a big difference when trying to "catch" a spring? Any ideas are much appreciated and if there is a video I should watch please reference. Thanks Tim
My experience with springs is they can move on you. It's the most frustrating thing. Grab them where you see them a 14"x14" French Drain will be enough. Just be prepared to run branches off the main line. You will hate yourself if you over build and it jumps 15ft.
Great video, appreciate the tips and tricks, I'll be up this summer to get my supplies for my project. For my project, I don't have a fence to take the discharge up high to get the needed slope. Do you have any tips for combining two discharge lines for a 200' discharge run without being able to take it up on a fence to get slope? My only option seems to be to bury it but I'm concerned about freezing (I'm in the north like you) and the cost of running two discharge lines that distance.
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FDM ... Please do a composite video of showing how you daylighted a variety of systems. All the different end games to daylight. TIA
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What about wire mesh at the outlet to prevent wildlife from crawling up and getting trapped in the pump area
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HOLY BATMAN. Great video. Alot of information.
Thanks Brother. I appreciate you commenting.
Good stuff answered lots of questions, thanks.
The pipe on the fence look bad. Why not use your yellow pipe underground with a popup.
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Nice work overall and that culvert setup is pretty serious. Unfortunate you can't bring the discharge to the curb.
It’s nice that you had a fence to work with, but what would a person do if you have an open yard?
I was going to ask the same. Two acre open yard here that floods. NE Ohio.
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Is there a contingency if the power goes out during a heavy storm?
Run all generator.
Hey.. good job for drainage... No doubt. And St Clair Shores ESPECIALLY by Jefferson is a swamp. But holy guacamoley that looks like SHIT in the yard. PVC hanging on the fence....omg..The lots are so small over there!!
Man, it is what it is. Gotta do whatcha gotta do....keep the work coming in. You are doing great in my opinion. And yes...that is bulletproof. Cut the check please.
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Thank you for this 🙏
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Does digging this close to the house and filling with fabric, pipe, and round stone affect the 3’-4’ frost protection depth of the house footers?
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You really should submit this to JLC, I would love to be able to dig into the details of this system and spec it for some of our housing re-developments.
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I don’t understand. I’m trying to learn. But it doesn’t make sense to me to run a French drain around the foundation of the home. Doesnt it make more sense to grade the slope of the land away from the house, have surface grates with concrete. You can then have a connecting sump pump away from the home where you pump it out to the street. That way at least if the pump fails you don’t have a home under water
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Wait a couple of questions. 1. Isn't that the Neighbors fence? 2. In the Winter time that's gonna be one heck of Ice rink in the driveway. 3.
Not the neighbors fence. Driveway is elevated water doesn't pond. Pump only runs when it's above freezing. Thank you for commenting.
If that drain system is only a couple feet deep, how would it do anything to eliminate the water at the bottom of the basement wall?
This house is on a slab. There is No basement
How do you cost for such a project? Especially the labour cost ......how do you know how many days its going to take to complete the job? How do you know exactly what parts you going to need when suddenly you need to go around an existing pipe or some unforseen obstruction underground and you haven't costed for that? Do you quote your client in advance and adjust the price after having completed the job? Or do you not give them price and just bill them at the end of the job regardless of how long it takes to do the job......? How do you ensure your costs do not exceed your profit ?
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Is this system in addition to a footer drainage system around the entire perimeter of the house ? Or does a shallow French drain system like this provide enough drainage to protect the foundation from water infiltration ?
It's a house on a slab. This also works for homes on a crawlspace.
The last video I watched said never to build a French drain up against the house, but have it out a few feet minimum. I'm confused!
This video the house was on a slab. A house on a basement you don't want water running down the basement wall. Thank you for commenting. Good question.
Is that going to wreck the driveway with all the ice that's going to build up on it?
It only runs during a thaw otherwise it's snowing.
@@FRENCHDRAINMAN very interesting. I’m really enjoying your channel. We are going to be ordering some of your materials for a project at my brothers home. You are very inspiring, thank you for sharing your tips and tricks.
Great video ,as always very informative. Do you have a video on your channel that shows how you connect the downspouts and surface water to a sump pump . Currently have excavated a 6 foot wide by 20 foot
Long by 3 foot deep catch pit to collect ground water and surface plus downspouts . I filled it with 1 1/2 drain stone and want to add a sump pump system for the north to assist in removing any extra water that doesn’t naturally leech into the soil or if it fills from a heavy rain. The only thing I’m not sure of is a connection from the downspouts to the sump .
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Great content. Couldn’t you have cut the driveway and ran the larger pipe across it, then down the other side of driveway? Looks like it has slope.
It would freeze up in the winter. Plus the line underground will move up and down in the winter with the freeze and thaw. If there were a better way I most certainly would have done it. I don't build my systems for service trucks to stay busy. I prefer to never see the job again and move forward solving another water problem for somebody else. Thank you for commenting! ✌️
Just curious. So once it gets to 300 gallons the switch turns on. It turns off when it gets to zero? Or does it just pump out a couple gallons until it fills back up to 300
It Zeros
I have a question what is the difference between black ads vs the royal blue boughman tile pipe ? I never really understood the difference between the two
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No shovel and beat up old equipment?
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That's some good work. I want to know with the "major" flood that had occurred and with this system put in. Do insurance cover this work. Or is it solely out the Homeowners pocket?
Home owners pays out of pocket. It's cheaper than moving.
Great video thanks
As a part of my water solution i am putting in a permeable oaver system for my driveway.
I had planned to run the outlet for various things including my sump to the further area of the driveway, entirel underground using the coruggated solid.
Would you still reccomend against that?
I guess I am not understanding why you have to use PVC here.
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Do you have a video doing a ground rain gutter for residential?
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With the discharge pipe on the driveway, would this cause a large icy spot in driveway ?
No driveway is elevated with a crown.
You can just run 5 strand wire and hook both up with two different breakers but one wire
What would you recommend for pipe underneath a gravel driveway when you have nowhere to slope the water off
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What if it can’t keeps up with the rain fall u already have 300 gallons reserved space taken
To trigger it. It has another 400 gallons of Reserve
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Why not bring that water to the street?
How?
Aren't you going to have driveway damage and large ice pond in the winter?
Every system is designed with best option in mind. We didn't have many options here. Every time we take a drain to a curb hole in the North the likelihood of it ice damming is high. Snow plow trucks pile snow on the curb and median. We can't daylight there in the North.
Good effort but I don't care for that discharge. My neighbor's discharge built up so much ice in the street DPW had to bring in a road grader to open it.
It only runs when it's warm out and ice and snow are melting. It's a outdoor sump pump not a indoor sump pump. I hope this helps. Thank you for commenting.
Why place the pipes right against the home like that?
If they ever have to have foundation work done (I'm guessing they already do) they will have to tear out the whole drainage system.
Foundation looked great. Needed wood in walls replaced because of water wicking.
Are there any contractors in Fort Wayne, In you could recommend, that would do the quality work as you do?
Call our main office 248-505-3065 they will know
How do you sell a French drain over a concrete slab with a solid pipe to capture downspout water?
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Do you travel to the ann arbor area because i could use some help
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How would you recommend finding a proper company in my area that has the right answers to my yard and ground water issue? Been having a really hard time finding a company that can come up with a confident plan. I live in Massachusetts.
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can anyone explain how this ez drain without gravel costs $50 for $2 of foam packing peanuts?
What areas in Michigan do you service? Do you service ALL of Oakland County?
Most of it but not all. Oakland County is Huge!
248-505-3065 is our office number
What happens when the power goes off?
That's what back up generators are for. Thank you for sharing.
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Won't discharging the water on the driveway weaken the driveway at some point in time?
No not at all. It only runs during rain events not all the time like a basement sump pump.
Only thing i see wrong with this system is all that water discharging onto the cracked driveway will Crack and lift that concrete even higher. Otherwise looks good
It slopes to the street
cameraman should slow down some when trying to show something, instant of fast panning all over the place and we can't see anything.
I will slow it down.
Thank you
Purpose of Patton when ur showing somone?
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I have a better option. If a home floods in the winter time. Don't buy it.
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