Do NOT wrap a French Drain Pipe With Drainage Fabric

wanted to talk a little bit about the pipe we'll use the fabric we use how we use it and why we use it in in the way that we use it so a lot of guys are just wrapping the pipe and then they'll put the pipe in and they'll pull their stone in we don't do that no tell you why this subsoil right here if you just pour stone let's say we just wrap the pipe right there or you have a pipe with a sleeper sock on it and now you just fill this in with stone and you put the grass back over top this subsoil mixes with the stone and the stone migrates into this subsoil it plugs here the system plugs here so to have a pipe with a sleeve or sock on it and I even see guys that'll take drainage fabric and wrap the pipe it's a really bad idea that's not the right way to build a good French drain system so for a French drain system never use the pipe with a sleeve or sock on it don't wrap your pipe with a filter wrap because you're going to want to wrap you need a soil separator so that your stone and subsoil don't mix and it'll plug here what good is having a pipe that's not plugged if you can't get the water to it so we wrap everything this is a soil separator we'll have the stone and pipe and we'll wrap it all that's that's how we do it that's a philosophy on how we build a drainage system and it works it works really well over 30 years and there's not one that's failed now another question people say well you're putting your pipe right on the fabric yes I am this is not a pipe where you just have a couple holes at the bottom this has eight slots per valley so it's going to take in the water from the sides from the top and because I have the fabric I can lay this in the trench the reason why I like laying the pipe right on the fabric we take this to a storm drain catch basin we want to empty the haier trench out we're here in the north this during our freeze we could end up with water freezing that's lame in the French drain Trent a trench if you just raise this pipe up a few inches and put a bunch of stone under it you lay it on a few inches of stone and then you go through the sidewall of a storm drain catch basin or a sump pump basin our lift stations you see through our videos all the different things that we build you're gonna leave water in the trench I want the pipe at the bottom I want to drain the entire trench out right up until the the location of discharge so that it don't freeze come wintertime that'll hurt the performance of the drainage system so to answer some of the questions that some of the comments and questions that I've been receiving definitely always use a soil separator don't use a pipe with a sleeve or sock on it and yes once you have your entire trench wrapped you can put your pipe down as long as it's a pipe if you're using corrugated pipe that's slotted you got it doesn't matter if it's three slot four slot staggered in this case I got the eight slots per Valley if you watch the videos you guys know I really like this pipe use it whenever possible because it really moves a lot of water for a French drain system built right the first time in Shelby Township Michigan give us a call

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Length: 3min 55sec (235 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 03 2018