Hi Chucjk! I've been watching this video and am sure glad to find you. My home is on a sloped property. I only discovered my drainage problem when I was insulating in my crawlspace and found it partially flooded. Watching your video gave me confidence I could do the work to fix the problem. Yes it is hard work. With some help from a few friends, I dug out around the foundation to the footer and followed your directions to waterproof , gravel, and pipe the water out to the street. Thank you for posting this video so diyers like myself can confidently do this. I will be 71 in about a week and am grateful for good health enabling me to complete this job!! I really appreciate it.

As a single woman with a house with water issues this video has been invaluable. Thank you so much for keeping it simple for those of us who have no choice but to DIY.

Thank you for explaining what a drain tile is, and also how it works. I keep hearing that phrase “drain tile” and there is no tile to be seen lol. I kept wondering how this black pipe is supposed to direct water as well. Most videos don’t explain that there are perforations on the bottom. It just looked like a solid strip of corrugated pipe to me before this video, and I was wondering how the water was supposed to get in. This video helped a lot.

Your a good man, showing those that cant afford someone to have it done.

Chuck THANK You! I watched this video four years ago and last month I finally found myself in a situation where I needed all of this information. Thanks to you I just successfully laid 270 feet of footer tile French drains + solid pipe around my house with solid pipe connecting in all my downspouts and 5 catch basins all trying in and going out to daylight at the end of my property. I Used rubber coat #57 around the foundation, and also installed a dry well, sump pump, and lastly a silt trap for a channel drain off my driveway. I would not have had the confidence or had the knowledge to do it if it had not been for you! Thank you

I'm getting ready to run a drain for my garage so I've been watching some videos of yours.. i bet you're an awesome boss to work for ..all your videos are uplifting.. keep up the videos, guys like you are changing the world for the little people like me! they're much appreciated !

You are offering a lot of great knowledge to us diy people. And you present it in a manor that makes it seem very doable for the average John Q Public. Like me. Thanks so much.

thank you, this was very helpful. We have had a particularly wet Spring/early Summer and water had entered our home above the foundation slab. Luckily, the flooding was confined to one room of the house. However, our gutter system failed this season due to ice storms we had previously and I had not gotten around to fixing the damaged system. Now I am forced to address the problem, as this is what led to the flooding. Your video was very helpful in explaining the installation and operation of a foundation "French" drain. Keep posting your videos, especially any tips or tricks that you might offer the DIYer. Have a blessed day.

Thanks again! My house is over a hundred years old! And im having a lot of water issues, because my foundation needs to be repaired. I hope and pray, I can get this problem fixed soon!

Thank you 🙏 boss . You really taught me something very super important thing to know. This taught is like 100 years of experience or more just to get it if it wasn’t for your help. I really love your skills. It’s amazing what you know. Thank you again from my deepest heart.

Thank you for this excellent video! My house has significant crawlspace flooding everytime we get heavy rain and I have been looking for this exact information so I can do this myself. I am also going to install a vertical drain in a low spot in my backyard thanks to your latest videos.

Thanks for all your helpful videos ,you and your crew do great work I would like to be working with you guys helping people solve their drainage problems ,thanks again and God Bless

Always a joy and inspiration to watch your videos! I’m getting ready to do a project and I feel good about it thanks to you! 🤟🏻

Chuck, thank you, following your guidance saved my garage!!Thanks from MO!!

Thanks for the videos! Did my garage exactly like you did and it’s working great!!!

I’ve done this on a few old houses and what I do is use a tiller or mini tiller in the dirt and it makes it easier to spread.looks great

Thanks so much Chuck, I really enjoy your videos! You have given me the confidence to do my own system. I live in Burlington, just up the road from you. My biggest problem is that my yard is clay, and it’s kicking my butt digging my trench! But I’m trying to save money, so it is what it is. Thanks again!!

Thank you for the great how-to. I recently discovered that the drainage around my foundation and bulkhead is all screwed up, leading to some water penetration in my basement. Refinishing the basement is a costly thing that I was hoping to do in 5 years, not 3 months... and while I'll have to hire a mason to re-do the hardscaping (that's sloped to get all of the water on my patio right against my basement window), I feel much better about using trenching and gravel to waterproof my exterior.

I’ve learned so much from you Chuck. Thank you!

I’m pretty experienced myself, but you are an amazing Teacher..Thank you Sir

Thank you sooOO much Chuck!!! Not my field but taught me a DIY!!

Thank you for making the helpful videos . St . Louis Missouri has been hit hard with record breaking rainfall. I believe I can do this. Lol

Thank you so much for these videos. This one really helped me with my house.

That’s a lot of work for 1day you got a good crew, nice job

Here in Canada, your video helped me install a dig sump pump system this winter. I need help with waterproofing my basement interior on my shared leaking wall. Its a side by side house with almost no possibility of trenching the exterior. Thanks a million

Excellent video man,my girlfriend is gonna need this done to her house next summer

Great work fellas, and thank you for sharing.

Very informative video. I'll be doing exactly as mentioned this weekend

What a happy video I have the problem water coming in the porch in back of house. And I do plan on doing myself

Great video, and a great bunch of had working, knowledgeable men!

Wow, looks like a great plan for that water to leave. Nice work

Again Chuck great work and a gem of info. Cheers bud.

Helpful and precisely addressed my particular problem.

Awesome vid. I am getting ready to do this to one side of my home.

The schedule thanks for the video thanks for the motivation I prefer the schedule 40 pipe so that it doesn't risk getting crushed and being worthless also I like covering the gravel with some fabric so that it doesn't fill up with mud I do appreciate what you do and what you're showing it's great and I do appreciate it

Awesome video and tutorial. Ty

Silly question because I am a newbie searching videos on how to fix my yard issue. Why didn’t you use the drain pipe with holes placing the pipe top of the black fabric? A lot of these videos contradict each other… your video has a lot of little do’s and dont’s which is helpful.. thank you

I don’t have 10,000 dollars to get a company to waterproof anything. 😡 so I need all the help I can get man. Thanks.

Awesome videos Chuck! Thanks

Chuck love you videos I wish you come back to a job when it pouring down rain and include it in video to really show folks the destructive power of Water. Just spent two years fighting city to get a 600 foot 6” tile running north against the natural flow. Lucky that it starts 3 feet below my yard and runs down .7 inches to outlet to District tile that had just been cleared and is a 12” drain that only has 4 inlets prior to exiting town and discharging into deep ditch that goes to creek 3 drains out of small town and most of town floods with standing water but I stood fast fought hard hired professional engineers and got it done. No more lake in my front yard when it pours Got to fight sometimes but nothing is impossible! The drain on my third connecting lot to North is 10 Feet deep ! Was a hell of a project but increased value of all my lots and no more septic problems and with building up slope around home that ties into tile and gutter system it’s finally done Thank you for your inspiring videos. I wish my project would of been as easy as this one! If one has no place to run drain to; don’t give up there is a way to solve problem. City would not let me go across street the legal way as backlash of 40 homes already having problems from that tile and it turned out for the best. I had to pay for the 600 Feet Of Pipe I signed and dated every darn piece of pipe in 3 places as it was installed in 2 days.

great video - very helpful- -thank you all

We just purchased a home in North Carolina that's on a sloped lot and whenever it rains hard I think have water coming in through the foundation into the crawlspace. Thankfully there's only one portion of the foundation on the slope the other side is still flat where the driveway is. I think I'm going to try and tackle this project!

Thank you so much for putting so much detailed and useful information out , I have learned so much from your easy way of explaining. I have a question - did you not need the fabric under the pipe and up the walls of the trench as well to keep the soil from entering into the gravel??

Hey guys thanks for this knowledge shared.

Thank you much! I am doing this for mine!

Wish I had a crew like yours

This is absolutely amazing information, Thank you so much! I am wondering about the drain at the road. What would you do if you had a sidewalk that was in the way? Thank you so much for this video!

Yea, I am also female and have to do this myself. Thank you so much for wonderful instructions! I also have termite issues. AND I was not told about the obvious problems with the home. I do also have some roofing issues, but I am going to have to save up for someone to do those. ugh...

great detailed explanation!

Thank you for you video. Very helpful

Chuck! I love your videos and the wealth of knowledge you share. How would you recommend approaching installing a footer tile if your home doesn't have a strip footing below the concrete foundation (the board-formed foundation is the footing) without compromising the footing and stopping the flow of water below the foundation wall?

Classic. Sweet song too

Nice job. Well narrated

Great video, Chuck. Cheers.

that last quote!! thank you.

Awesome video! Best out, thank you!

Thank you for making this video!!!

Great video thanks imma try this

Great job

Great show. Explains alot.

Such an amazing video,Thank you thank you sooooo sooooo much!!!!

Thank you for the video

This was a very good video! Thank you

great info

You are awesome Chuck ! Thanks Bro !

u do a great job

Great work. Keep it up.

should you use a landscape cloth to keep the pipe from getting clogged with soil?

Thank you for all of this information this is so difficult when you're a single woman trying to fix a problem like this but I'll have to do it myself since I don't have any help.

Thank you!!

Needed this

ty for the demo

Thanks for the video Nice work

Great job!!! Thanks for sharing in detail 👍🏼👍🏼

Great and informative video as always. Love the music at 13:50 though

Wonderful video well done!

That's because the utilities are on the other side. Always call 811 before you dig! Thanks

Thank you

Thank you for the knowledge! Would you recommend this if I’m just getting water pile up on 1(backside) of the house or just make a French drain diverting away before moisture can build up around the foundation?

Great timing KZfaq! You brought the perfect solution to my perfect problem. (Purposely deleted sentence.)

Hi Chuck nice job.......question....I have pipe in and gravel around a slab by my garage. Can I put the fabric over the pipe now and cover with dirt?.....you always do good work and take care of yourself during these trying times...oh yea gravel is above pipe also....thanks Rick

good job

You’re the real MVP - these projects can cost a homeowner thousands.

thank you

One question on the step process. Once the trench is done, is the next the step is to put gravel in the trench then drain pipe on top to the gravel and then more gravel? Not sure if you put gravel first then then drain pipe and then more gravel. Thank you very informative.

great video awesome detail. what is the difference between the fiber coating and liquid rubber ?

Loved the video.

Great video! I purchased my first home, and I am considering doing this. How deep should one dig?

What an excellent video. Quality Videography, simple easy instructions and guidance, ample warnings and suggestions, great explanations of reasons why things are done they way they are and how they are supposed to work. This is very useful. This is SUPER useful! Thanks!

This video is super helpful. How do you recommend dealing with plants along a home? The roots are a huge pain to deal with when digging the trench.

Thank you so much. for informativ

Here in southern california, we actually took out the far end of perforated pipe along the driveway to slow down the flow of the water table out of the yard. Diversion, then dispersion is key on our property. Still gotta deal with water though, just a few small shifts of thinking. Thanks

Hi chuck. Thank you so much for giving me the courage to go out and do the same thing at my house. But before I start trenching, I have one question. I noticed that you didn’t talk about creating a 1% fall. How do I create a fall in my trench when putting a French drain or footer drain next to my home’s footing without undermining the footing or breaching the footing as you said in your video?

Good job ❤️👏

nice, thanks

Great camera work chuck

I like this guy

Hi Chuck, Been watching so many of your videos and learning a lot. I live in the south and we've had a ton of down pours creating a good amount of water in my crawlspace. Now planning to get a sump pump with a trench and drainage around the inside of the foundation. "EZ Flow" system that runs into the pump seems to be popular although someone said that EZ Flow is styrofoam and just floats no matter how much weight you put over it. One contractor told me it's a waste of money and that they use perforated tubing and cover with gravel to keep in place. Now I'm confused and want to see if you have an opinion about the EZ flow system. Thanks for any help and for educating us out here. Have a great day.

So, you need Black Jack fiber coating at the junction between the footer and the wall? Why not just the Liquid Rubber? Thanks

Great video! How far away from the foundation do you put the corrugated pipe?