"We learn together". Thats why I love watching your videos. Im about to embark on a drainage project myself and the timing if this video couldn't have come at a better time. Love the music when showing the sketches. Haven't heard that in a while.
This is one of the best examples of knowing your land. Knowing your land and studying it is key when trying to correct this type of problem. French drains are kind of like drain tiles put in farm land.
You can watch videos all day to get an idea of how to do it but at the end of it all...you gotta dig in and get your hands dirty. It doesn't have to be perfect, it has to be functional. You did a great job and it's basically what I did at my house. It works great.
Thank you for taking the time to make this video and share you knowledge with us! It is invaluable as I embark on my own DIY drainage problem project. I especially liked the way you tweeked your plan and showed us how and why.
Alan The #8 copper wire you exposed while digging is the bonding wire for your pool equipment. This is actually different from a ground wire but equally if not more important. Bonding puts all of the equipment, pool, pool water and decking into the same electrical potential. This prevents any possibility of electrical shocks around the pool area by keeping everything at the same voltage potential.
You should see the massive French drain that I've got. Had to put it in because guy behind me wouldn't fix his leaking water main. Drained my yard non stop for 4 years and then the guy finally fixed it.
I worked at Lowe’s for 10 years in plumbing. They make a driveway channel you could put at your gate. It comes in I think 2 and 4 ft. lengths. Also, be careful when mowing. If you mow over the pop up, sometime the suction from the mower will pull up the pop up and you can damage it with the blade.
I’m excited to see your take on the difference in reel low mowing, and the traditional tall cutting. I have cool season kbg and have gone down to 2” this fall and it looks good. Great educational video!
Thanks for documenting this. I need to do this exact thing to my side yard along a fence. Water just sits after heavy rains and stays wet for a few days even with our sandy soil. It also ends up washing away my mulch/pinestraw. I may put down some ground ivy such as Jasmine to help absorb and fill in the bare area.
I think you should have still put a catch basin directly next to the patio(original plan) then use the bend-a-drain to connect to the rest of the drain over your sprinkler pipes. I would also suggest you get the nds catch basin filter, it will catch any debris that falls in and prevent your drain from getting clogged in the future.
Love the "thoughtful meditation montage". Like you, I think so much more clearly when surrounded by my vices. In fact, with enough of my vices ably assisting, I can actually know it all. I'd like to do a french drain too. I would like to do some deeper holes along my drain -"percolation stacks" to return more water to the ground, rather than run off. Perhaps a raingarden? Maybe a few more vice-sessions and it will be all figured out.
I installed a French drain years ago it saved my patio and my lawn. My neighbor was over watering and killing everything on my side of the yard. One of the best decisions I ever made.
Though he might not have problems with it but the homeowner 20 years down the road will. Kinda like the pool guys just ending the patio drain channel at the fence post. "We all dun here naow..."
I love your channel!!! Your videos were SO helpful and such a huge part of the growth and early success of my lawn care business. Much respect! I'm a little concerned about the way you ended the drain. I have gotten so many calls from homeowners with drainage problems in the last couple years, its crazy. The funny part is, they almost all have some kind of drainage that was installed improperly. I've had two in the last couple months that were very similar to yours. I don't see anywhere for the water to truely exit. Continuing the French drain underground in the area past the problem site is key in most situations. This creates a large amount of "surface area" contact. I don't mean surface of the ground, but the surface area of the drain pipe. By running 5 feet or so under ground in your yard, there is a large area for the water to slowly seep into the soil. Almost every drain like this I've come across, there is a never ending wet spot at the end of the drain. I hope that doesn't happen. But if so, just add some French drain under ground for about 5 feet at the end of what you have now. Disclaimer: that's pretty basic advice and I'd prefer to have more info on the results of your current set-up before finalizing a recommendation. Hopefully no more work needed. Always wishing the best for you. Smells like success!!!!
the popup emitted at the end should let most of the water out. If not I can dig more and take it further away from the yard for sure, but I also don't want this pipe beneath my grass roots so that is why I stopped it where I did. If it doesn't work, time for more digging lol
Yeah. I understand the root thought for sure. I always use actual gravel, so the roots can just grow into it a little, I also have basically no experience with your grass type as I'm in Kansas City. But I've buried a few where the deepest I could go had the top of my gravel only about 2 - 2 1/2 inches below the top of the soil. With gravel at least, the grass has done really well. I thought I might have some issues, but the main one I'm thinking of even survived our drought this year. It's tall fescue and is still looking great! Can't even tell it's there at all.
Another thought. The main one I fixed this year that was almost identical to yours, worked fine except for the two really big rains we had this year. The four day storm we had a few weeks ago really showed the homeowner it wasn't going to satisfy him in the long run, so he paid me to fix it. But honestly, except for those two rains, just having the added area beneath ground for the water to sit really helped the surface dry out. So if you're okay with only having small issues from big rains, it might be the right compromise between not obstructing roots and solving the majority of the problem. Just depends on what you're really wanting out of the project. Once again, best of luck. I have a ton of respect for you and your channel. Next time around KC, I'd love to treat you to lunch!
Allyn - when you start putting pipe under the yard, go deeper. I have a larger culvert pipe that is also a french drain. Soil above it is about 12" deep and it dries out much faster than the rest of the soil and kills the grass in droughts... your irrigation will help. You can cut corrugated pipe with a razor blade too! ;)
I did the pop up drain but put a bag of pea gravel under it for the seep hole that’s in the bottom of it. But you’re in Florida and have different soil. Also I used PVC line and not the black stuff it breaks down over the years which I wasn’t a fan of. I added a clean out at the beginning of the drain by the down spout to get leaves and things out of the line periodically. But looks good though. Nice.
Hey Allen, I would consider putting another catch basin in that corner where you have the open pipe. I know you said you had more work to do on that, but I would suggest that. You want the most surface area for the water to feed into that corner.
A lot of work. I applaud your persistence in resolving the issue. Word to the wise, not a good practice to flow the downspout through a french drain. It will clog the french drain field eventually and tend to raise the water table rather than lowering it down the road. Even though it’s more work, next time go with two separate pipes. Ezflow for the french drain and a separate non-perforated corrugated line along side for the downspout drain. You can go with two separate popups or run them into a “Y” to a non-perforated line to a single popup downstream.
That's a lot of work! My side yard needs this badly but I'm too chicken because there's power, gas, and cable right there. Even contractors are afraid to do it.
I used the same cups your drinking from until I tried a Yeti type stainless steel cup. They keep your drinks colder/hotter 5X longer than your cup. Your drink will remain cold no matter how long you are outside in the heat. Just a little tip because you have giving me so many.
Not sure what those Yeti cups run for you guys south of the border dollar wise, but up here in Ontario Canada I've seen a good size travel mug for like $50! couldn't believe they were so expensive... But if they work as advertised then they're probably well worth the extra $$$.
I'm in central SC. I did a 100' perf-pipe along my shop (slab not high enough?>), had to adjust slope due to electric & irrigation, with a pop-up at the end, but funny the pop-up never does? Guess it all disperses before the pop-up. BUT overall no flooding in the shop now!!!
When I did mine I was constantly fussing with the grade to ensure I was getting the tile to take water away from my problem area. It appears you have a natural slope however after you get beyond the red curb. Another quirk you should explain is that the French drain just runs water into the dirt away from house. It doesn’t connect or drain into any other cavity.
Idea: Glyphosate side yard and grow some bermuda or bent grass. My small northern lawn has been dominant for a few years already, considering turning it into a putting green (without scooping holes for putting.) Would love to see it done so I can copy, and you know lots of us would love to see you enjoy the reel mow!
Like the videos. However i have a question. I live in n.w. ohio and temps at night been in the high 30s and low 50s during the day and my lawn care company wants to come do a treatment on November 5th. I know theres alot more unknown variables here but should i allow them to try and do another application since its as cold as it is arent my weeds and grass going dormant and will be just applying and really not affecting anything?
If that area is always wet, I wonder if you have a slow leak in your pool equipment. Or a leaky fitting in an irrigation branch. Nice drain install. That’s hard work right there.
Not Chuck from Apple Drains, just Chuck from West BF, Upstate NY. The home of heavy clay soil. I did a hundred and fifty feet of french draining a couple years ago. Designed it myself (having a civil engineering background) and enlisted a contractor to do the work after having to pump my basement out a couple times. That issue was actually despite an over-designed foundation footing drain system which was succumbing to a poorly placed pine tree clogging the runout. A tale of woe for another time. But before the foundation drain problem was actually understood and properly addressed, I surmised that because of the dense top soil (evidenced by repeated pooling issues), and that significant areas of the lawn sloped toward the house, I needed some way to catch and control the surface water and lessen the strain on the foundation drain. That called for french draining but with the important caveat that they be back-filled with highly porous soil. Replacing the clay top soil would simply cap it, opposite of what I wanted it there for. That's my only concern in this situation. It would have been nice to see that clay soil discarded and percable soil as is used in new leach field installs used to backfill. The surface drain is a good start but also indicative that there is a similar situation as mine with surface pooling, especially around the eave of the house. I have little faith in gutters and enough experience to know that you need a Plan B for when the rain comes down hard (even if your house is on a slab, as I believe most houses are in FL). 'Like cow piss on a flat rock' hard, as an old farmer friend used to call it.
Allyn Hane, the lawn drainage nut! Great vid man, looking forward to the rest! Chuck rocks, gave me confidence to do this as well. Now watching you has given me even more confidence! Should’ve got your supplies at Home Deh-poh lol
I prefer French fries & French dip over French drain, that looked like a lot of work ! It should definitely help keep water from pooling in the plant bed
That copper wire is the equipotential bonding wire from the rebar that surrounds the pool to your pool equipment. In case of a short, the electric will disburse.
Good job Allyn. Looked like a lot of hard work. 2 days work? I think I saw how that bend a drain worked but could have used a better explanation of it. Thanks.
Just saw in your email your going reel low with some empire zoysia. Gatta say I'm super excited to watch the project and see what greens mower you get. Try and find one with a groomer blade on it aswell it works great
hey lawn care...I live in colorado and I am moving to Sarasota.. Following your channel I can fix a lawn in a summer here.. However house hunting in Sarasota the lawns seem to need alot more help and landscaping seems to be the focus .. anything I should look for or is this gonna be a overhaul for me?? water front homes??
I just did a similar project here in TX installing a sump pump system to my existing drains and adding a few. Now good ‘ol Chuck from Apple Drains is all over my suggested videos. You used all his tricks there in your video (except the hacksaw over your leg like he does).😫 But why is it that I always feel cheated if I don’t get to see water coming out of the actual drain after one of these install videos? I swear, after finishing mine, I stood there and stared at if for 30 mins. 😳After a couple of days of work, it was worth it.
I’ll be curious to see if that pop up drain works being so close. Allen, do you think it has enough fall? Clean work! I need to do this so badly on the side of my house.
All the Home Depot’s and Lowe’s stopped carrying milo in my area. Any insight? One of the Home Depot people said they are making a smaller bag... Btw I’m near Orlando Florida
Allyn you are funny when you stated this was not a technical job yet you got pretty technical with the drawings, leveler, sloping etc. So I think it’s safe to say that drainage is a technical job just as being a LawnNut.. Hopefully you understand. 🤣 Great job with the drainage. I look forward to part 2 and the Halloween domination
Wait a minute.. “reel low” or “real low” 😳, and how about your silverback mating call at the beginning 😂 I love your content and everything about your channel 👍👍
Now you need a good Fla rain to see the fruit of your labor. Torpedo grass has taken over my back yard. Going to kill everything this winter going back with burmuda.
The best place for drainage research is from the product manufactures themselves. That corrugated pipe needs to be at at least 2% slope to properly pass debris. You're going to find out that in dry times roots are going to destroy that 15:40 in search for the extra water. French drains should be 50ft from trees or at least further away than the hight of the plant who's roots you're attempting to avoid. Even those large dry wells will have roots creeping in. Our growing season down here is just too long.
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"We learn together". Thats why I love watching your videos. Im about to embark on a drainage project myself and the timing if this video couldn't have come at a better time. Love the music when showing the sketches. Haven't heard that in a while.
I watched a lot of Chuck earlier this year. I also did my first one by watching him and other videos. Great work.
On my way to bed. Half way up the stairs. Oh new LCN video! Turn around, grab a beer, watch video 👍🏼
Is it weird that I find the sound of you walking on your grass in your videos soothing ? Its like a nice crunch.
This is one of the best examples of knowing your land. Knowing your land and studying it is key when trying to correct this type of problem. French drains are kind of like drain tiles put in farm land.
So good. I did a French drain in my backyard this spring. Learned a ton.
re-doing my front yard drainage right now. agreed about chuck - he's the man! chuck has been invaluable!
You can watch videos all day to get an idea of how to do it but at the end of it all...you gotta dig in and get your hands dirty. It doesn't have to be perfect, it has to be functional. You did a great job and it's basically what I did at my house. It works great.
I learned from Chuck's Videos as well and it saved my house! You two guys are who got me watching UA-cam for answers to make things better.
Chuck from Apple Drains is the freaking man. I love how he always says, "...if you believe you can do something, I promise you that you can do it."
He said, I believed, my yard handles big rain like a champ now!
I thought it was Chuck's video when I saw the thumbnail :)
aguyandhiscomputer 🤣
@@JimmyLewisMows They're both in Florida, when's the collaboration video??? :)
@@aguyandhiscomputerThat would be awesome
I binge watched Chuck for about a month before putting in my own drain. He’s awesome!
From the problem, diagnosis, solution to the implementation... easy to follow and understand.
Excellent. Congratulations!
Thanks.
Thank you for taking the time to make this video and share you knowledge with us! It is invaluable as I embark on my own DIY drainage problem project. I especially liked the way you tweeked your plan and showed us how and why.
Nice job, Allyn. I've watched a lot of Chuck's videos too. He's obviously an expert in his field.
Alan
The #8 copper wire you exposed while digging is the bonding wire for your pool equipment. This is actually different from a ground wire but equally if not more important. Bonding puts all of the equipment, pool, pool water and decking into the same electrical potential. This prevents any possibility of electrical shocks around the pool area by keeping everything at the same voltage potential.
perfect thank you Dan! I'm glad I was careful with it.
Good way to tie in that channel drain to the drain line. Excited to see how this performs. 👍👍👍
Inexpensive too! I think he said that piece was only 12 bucks or something like that. Solid solution.
Chuck with apple drains has the best drainage videos. That’s cool, that you referenced him. Good stuff!!
Watching you work = priceless.
As much as you’re screwing and unscrewing hoses, I’m surprised you don’t use quick connectors.
Changed my life.
You should see the massive French drain that I've got. Had to put it in because guy behind me wouldn't fix his leaking water main. Drained my yard non stop for 4 years and then the guy finally fixed it.
Great work Mr. Hane!!
DIY Al is a versatile being.😁
I worked at Lowe’s for 10 years in plumbing. They make a driveway channel you could put at your gate. It comes in I think 2 and 4 ft. lengths. Also, be careful when mowing. If you mow over the pop up, sometime the suction from the mower will pull up the pop up and you can damage it with the blade.
You did great Allyn!!! I did mine with my dad last year around my entire house and took me months.
Some fun work there. There's always something in the way. Cool wheel barrow.
I love when my favorite channels come together lol
I’m excited to see your take on the difference in reel low mowing, and the traditional tall cutting. I have cool season kbg and have gone down to 2” this fall and it looks good. Great educational video!
I’ve been putting this off. You may have given me the motivation. Now to bust out the pencil and paper. Thanks Al.
Thanks for documenting this. I need to do this exact thing to my side yard along a fence. Water just sits after heavy rains and stays wet for a few days even with our sandy soil. It also ends up washing away my mulch/pinestraw. I may put down some ground ivy such as Jasmine to help absorb and fill in the bare area.
Classy move using the recycling bin for the extra dirt!
Great Show this installment is!
I can’t wait to see you enjoy the reel low mow.
Great work...I gotta do the same to my lawn here in Illinois to get the water out of landscape and away from the house! Looking forward to part 2
Looking forward to the "reel low" mowing! :-)
This will be such a helpful video! We have a need for drainage on both sides of our home. Thank you for your time, knowledge and diy gumption! 😎
I think you should have still put a catch basin directly next to the patio(original plan) then use the bend-a-drain to connect to the rest of the drain over your sprinkler pipes. I would also suggest you get the nds catch basin filter, it will catch any debris that falls in and prevent your drain from getting clogged in the future.
Like the Jimmy Buffet music in the background! Bama Breeze is one of my favorites
Love the "thoughtful meditation montage". Like you, I think so much more clearly when surrounded by my vices. In fact, with enough of my vices ably assisting, I can actually know it all. I'd like to do a french drain too. I would like to do some deeper holes along my drain -"percolation stacks" to return more water to the ground, rather than run off. Perhaps a raingarden? Maybe a few more vice-sessions and it will be all figured out.
This is awesome. Thanks for doing this project
I installed a French drain years ago it saved my patio and my lawn. My neighbor was over watering and killing everything on my side of the yard. One of the best decisions I ever made.
I would recommend installing solid perforated plastic piping vs the corigated black pipe. The piping can collapse over time
Though he might not have problems with it but the homeowner 20 years down the road will. Kinda like the pool guys just ending the patio drain channel at the fence post. "We all dun here naow..."
Nice work my friend! Cool to see you doing this yourself. Got me thinking about doing an area of my yard now. Thanks for passing along the knowledge!
Then Mrs LCN comes home, looks at the site and asks if you’ve started yet. Nice work!
Thanks for the subtle Jimmy Buffet add! Keep it coming bruh!
I love your channel!!! Your videos were SO helpful and such a huge part of the growth and early success of my lawn care business. Much respect! I'm a little concerned about the way you ended the drain. I have gotten so many calls from homeowners with drainage problems in the last couple years, its crazy. The funny part is, they almost all have some kind of drainage that was installed improperly. I've had two in the last couple months that were very similar to yours. I don't see anywhere for the water to truely exit. Continuing the French drain underground in the area past the problem site is key in most situations. This creates a large amount of "surface area" contact. I don't mean surface of the ground, but the surface area of the drain pipe. By running 5 feet or so under ground in your yard, there is a large area for the water to slowly seep into the soil. Almost every drain like this I've come across, there is a never ending wet spot at the end of the drain. I hope that doesn't happen. But if so, just add some French drain under ground for about 5 feet at the end of what you have now. Disclaimer: that's pretty basic advice and I'd prefer to have more info on the results of your current set-up before finalizing a recommendation. Hopefully no more work needed. Always wishing the best for you. Smells like success!!!!
the popup emitted at the end should let most of the water out. If not I can dig more and take it further away from the yard for sure, but I also don't want this pipe beneath my grass roots so that is why I stopped it where I did. If it doesn't work, time for more digging lol
Yeah. I understand the root thought for sure. I always use actual gravel, so the roots can just grow into it a little, I also have basically no experience with your grass type as I'm in Kansas City. But I've buried a few where the deepest I could go had the top of my gravel only about 2 - 2 1/2 inches below the top of the soil. With gravel at least, the grass has done really well. I thought I might have some issues, but the main one I'm thinking of even survived our drought this year. It's tall fescue and is still looking great! Can't even tell it's there at all.
Another thought. The main one I fixed this year that was almost identical to yours, worked fine except for the two really big rains we had this year. The four day storm we had a few weeks ago really showed the homeowner it wasn't going to satisfy him in the long run, so he paid me to fix it. But honestly, except for those two rains, just having the added area beneath ground for the water to sit really helped the surface dry out. So if you're okay with only having small issues from big rains, it might be the right compromise between not obstructing roots and solving the majority of the problem. Just depends on what you're really wanting out of the project. Once again, best of luck. I have a ton of respect for you and your channel. Next time around KC, I'd love to treat you to lunch!
Dad's back always flooded close to 8-12 inches. 2 willow trees and the flooding stopped until they died. I couldn't believe how much water they used.
love this type of video like your older stuff (same music too!) - keep it up.. and good luck with going all in on the bid-ness
Allyn here with apple drains. Don’t tell me you didn’t watch his videos lol.
I did about 200 feet by hand this spring. It’s worth it in the end.
We need a Pacific NorthWest Lawn Care Nut!! Still love your videos and so wish I could grow that grass here. Great video!
Allyn - when you start putting pipe under the yard, go deeper. I have a larger culvert pipe that is also a french drain. Soil above it is about 12" deep and it dries out much faster than the rest of the soil and kills the grass in droughts... your irrigation will help. You can cut corrugated pipe with a razor blade too! ;)
Ha Apple Drains - Where i learnt how to do my drainage too!
Good job my friend lucky you have Florida sand! You will be happy when you get your next rain storm.
I did the pop up drain but put a bag of pea gravel under it for the seep hole that’s in the bottom of it. But you’re in Florida and have different soil.
Also I used PVC line and not the black stuff it breaks down over the years which I wasn’t a fan of. I added a clean out at the beginning of the drain by the down spout to get leaves and things out of the line periodically.
But looks good though. Nice.
Hey Allen, I would consider putting another catch basin in that corner where you have the open pipe. I know you said you had more work to do on that, but I would suggest that. You want the most surface area for the water to feed into that corner.
Coffee is usally hot. Good video al
A lot of work. I applaud your persistence in resolving the issue. Word to the wise, not a good practice to flow the downspout through a french drain. It will clog the french drain field eventually and tend to raise the water table rather than lowering it down the road. Even though it’s more work, next time go with two separate pipes. Ezflow for the french drain and a separate non-perforated corrugated line along side for the downspout drain. You can go with two separate popups or run them into a “Y” to a non-perforated line to a single popup downstream.
Nice work big Al.
thanks bro
That's a lot of work! My side yard needs this badly but I'm too chicken because there's power, gas, and cable right there. Even contractors are afraid to do it.
I used the same cups your drinking from until I tried a Yeti type stainless steel cup. They keep your drinks colder/hotter 5X longer than your cup. Your drink will remain cold no matter how long you are outside in the heat. Just a little tip because you have giving me so many.
Not sure what those Yeti cups run for you guys south of the border dollar wise, but up here in Ontario Canada I've seen a good size travel mug for like $50! couldn't believe they were so expensive... But if they work as advertised then they're probably well worth the extra $$$.
DIGGINDEEP, I bought a knockoff one for $10 on Amazon. Works the same as my brother’s Yeti.
Your lawn really looks good.
I'm in central SC. I did a 100' perf-pipe along my shop (slab not high enough?>), had to adjust slope due to electric & irrigation, with a pop-up at the end, but funny the pop-up never does? Guess it all disperses before the pop-up. BUT overall no flooding in the shop now!!!
Alan you could use a plastic trough drain they come in 2 ft increments and put along entire gate threshold and it’s shallower.
Apple Drains is the Bomb.
When I did mine I was constantly fussing with the grade to ensure I was getting the tile to take water away from my problem area. It appears you have a natural slope however after you get beyond the red curb. Another quirk you should explain is that the French drain just runs water into the dirt away from house. It doesn’t connect or drain into any other cavity.
Idea: Glyphosate side yard and grow some bermuda or bent grass. My small northern lawn has been dominant for a few years already, considering turning it into a putting green (without scooping holes for putting.) Would love to see it done so I can copy, and you know lots of us would love to see you enjoy the reel mow!
Reel low!!! Way to go LCN! TLF is an amazing community!
"There's no up or down, you throw that bad boy in the hole and you bury it"....That's what she said Al...😂
Great job mate ! well done
Like the videos. However i have a question. I live in n.w. ohio and temps at night been in the high 30s and low 50s during the day and my lawn care company wants to come do a treatment on November 5th. I know theres alot more unknown variables here but should i allow them to try and do another application since its as cold as it is arent my weeds and grass going dormant and will be just applying and really not affecting anything?
DIY Al, looking good.😁👍👍
If that area is always wet, I wonder if you have a slow leak in your pool equipment. Or a leaky fitting in an irrigation branch. Nice drain install. That’s hard work right there.
Very good to watch... I would enjoy to do this project myself :)
Not Chuck from Apple Drains, just Chuck from West BF, Upstate NY. The home of heavy clay soil.
I did a hundred and fifty feet of french draining a couple years ago. Designed it myself (having a civil engineering background) and enlisted a contractor to do the work after having to pump my basement out a couple times. That issue was actually despite an over-designed foundation footing drain system which was succumbing to a poorly placed pine tree clogging the runout. A tale of woe for another time.
But before the foundation drain problem was actually understood and properly addressed, I surmised that because of the dense top soil (evidenced by repeated pooling issues), and that significant areas of the lawn sloped toward the house, I needed some way to catch and control the surface water and lessen the strain on the foundation drain. That called for french draining but with the important caveat that they be back-filled with highly porous soil. Replacing the clay top soil would simply cap it, opposite of what I wanted it there for.
That's my only concern in this situation. It would have been nice to see that clay soil discarded and percable soil as is used in new leach field installs used to backfill. The surface drain is a good start but also indicative that there is a similar situation as mine with surface pooling, especially around the eave of the house. I have little faith in gutters and enough experience to know that you need a Plan B for when the rain comes down hard (even if your house is on a slab, as I believe most houses are in FL). 'Like cow piss on a flat rock' hard, as an old farmer friend used to call it.
Allyn, that copper wire is the bond wire for your swimming pool all pools must have this and it does go back to your equiptment
Allyn Hane, the lawn drainage nut! Great vid man, looking forward to the rest! Chuck rocks, gave me confidence to do this as well. Now watching you has given me even more confidence! Should’ve got your supplies at Home Deh-poh lol
Lowes had a lot more in stock than my local HD did. Usually I do go to HD though
I love the way chuck says hd
I prefer French fries & French dip over French drain, that looked like a lot of work ! It should definitely help keep water from pooling in the plant bed
That copper wire is the equipotential bonding wire from the rebar that surrounds the pool to your pool equipment. In case of a short, the electric will disburse.
Is there anything that can be done with torpedo grass in St. Augustine?
Unrelated to this video, but if I put Dormant seed in winter can I still put down pre-emergent in the spring?
Thanks,
here you go, bro thelawncarenut.com/blogs/news/late-fall-dormant-lawn-seeding
Good job Allyn. Looked like a lot of hard work. 2 days work? I think I saw how that bend a drain worked but could have used a better explanation of it. Thanks.
I will do an update in the next video for sure
Nice job. Love the DIY spirit. Happy Halloween. Your video's are awesome. Plz keep them coming.
Could you add a short 90 with a 4inch catch basic that goes right into the 90? Or possible a 45
Great video, Im also from st.petersburg
Just saw in your email your going reel low with some empire zoysia. Gatta say I'm super excited to watch the project and see what greens mower you get. Try and find one with a groomer blade on it aswell it works great
hey lawn care...I live in colorado and I am moving to Sarasota..
Following your channel I can fix a lawn in a summer here.. However house hunting in Sarasota the lawns seem to need alot more help and landscaping seems to be the focus .. anything I should look for or is this gonna be a overhaul for me?? water front homes??
I just did a similar project here in TX installing a sump pump system to my existing drains and adding a few. Now good ‘ol Chuck from Apple Drains is all over my suggested videos. You used all his tricks there in your video (except the hacksaw over your leg like he does).😫 But why is it that I always feel cheated if I don’t get to see water coming out of the actual drain after one of these install videos? I swear, after finishing mine, I stood there and stared at if for 30 mins. 😳After a couple of days of work, it was worth it.
I’ll be curious to see if that pop up drain works being so close. Allen, do you think it has enough fall? Clean work! I need to do this so badly on the side of my house.
The LCN is now the FDN!
All the Home Depot’s and Lowe’s stopped carrying milo in my area. Any insight? One of the Home Depot people said they are making a smaller bag...
Btw I’m near Orlando Florida
Holy smokes, a lot of work for one day!
gravel around that french drain dude!
Where did you get your curved landscape edging. that looks great?
Whaaat? The LCN is going Reel Mowing? Noooo way!
Excited to see that happen!
Maybe someday you try the robotic mowers also, lol.
Allyn you are funny when you stated this was not a technical job yet you got pretty technical with the drawings, leveler, sloping etc. So I think it’s safe to say that drainage is a technical job just as being a LawnNut.. Hopefully you understand. 🤣 Great job with the drainage. I look forward to part 2 and the Halloween domination
yes for sure, I mean not technical like in having to know the difference in AC vs DC and stuff like that. I should have said "more approachable"
Love the video! I was thinking about doing the same thing in 2 areas in my yard too. Gotta dig in Ga. red clay though ☹ ugh!
Wait a minute.. “reel low” or “real low” 😳, and how about your silverback mating call at the beginning 😂
I love your content and everything about your channel 👍👍
French Drains Keep You Regular!
Allyn, I live in Parrish as well. If you need help with the rest of your project let me know. It would be an honor to help the LCN.
Now you need a good Fla rain to see the fruit of your labor. Torpedo grass has taken over my back yard. Going to kill everything this winter going back with burmuda.
The best place for drainage research is from the product manufactures themselves. That corrugated pipe needs to be at at least 2% slope to properly pass debris. You're going to find out that in dry times roots are going to destroy that 15:40 in search for the extra water. French drains should be 50ft from trees or at least further away than the hight of the plant who's roots you're attempting to avoid. Even those large dry wells will have roots creeping in. Our growing season down here is just too long.
Yes Chuck is awesome
I have a lawn question is it to late to put down the Bayou stimulate. App I live in Missouri
you can put down some RGS if the ground is not frozen. air8 also
Okay, I was shocked to learn that you did not already have a hack saw.
I lost the one I had somewhere in the move