When he said "sweat equity" I knew it was going to be an informative video. I love when people work hard to get things done.

You can’t appreciate enough how much your videos mean to me! You are my motivation. It feels like having a caring father figure that patiently teaches you

You are a good man old boy, just trying to help DIY s. to get the job done. Keep up the good work , you are a beautiful hard working honest guy. All power to you ! 😊😊😊😊

“Still need to lay that pipe.” I couldn’t have said it better!

You are one of the nicest people on social media and the globe. Thank you

Hi Chuck you are a true inspiration, thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule record same. Couple years back I completed a french drain in my crawl space it was tough but I always kept your mantra in my head. The french drain works to perfection with your approach. After the heavy California rains this year I have decided to tackle some outdoor negative grade areas and create a french drain out. Once again appreciate your honesty and time. God Bless you and your team!!

you are generous man. Thank you. Ideal employer/contractor.

Awesome video Chuck! Your systems DO work. I planned and installed my system from your videos - even did a walk through on one of your live chats. Thank you!

Chuck, it's always satisfying watching your videos, you are very knowledgeable & give great tips on how to have Sucess in the projects...thank you! Appreciate you sharing your experiences with us.

Thanks for taking the time to make this video. Great information

Also, plant some blue flag Iris, goldenrod, and swamp sunflower in addition to installing your French drain; Those plants will help mitigate moisture issues also.

Thank you for sharing your experience with the world

Nice job cheap and simple for the customer

Love the coupling trick.

Love your positive attitude!

I just want to thank you for your video’s, you have helped me fix my yard and make it so everyone and my dogs can play outside without having to clean there paws every time they come in the house. And with the help of all of your videos that you made between watching a lot of them of them I could solve any problem that comes up while I’m doing drainage. And another thing because of you and your crew I feel confident enough to fix some of my family members drainage problem at their house. And doing a little bit on the side on the side to make extra money. So if you’re ever wondering if making them videos is worth it it is definitely worth it because there are thousands of people that you helped that don’t come on here and thank you so God bless you brother and your crew love ya.

Watching your video I put in my own French drain for my patio and ran it out into my back yard using a pop up last summer. With all of the rain had here in Ohio. I must say it works and works well. Thank for sharing.

Love watching your videos all the way from Gold Coast, Australia!

Great work, thanks for the education.🍀

You're the man Chuck!!

When I get a drainage call and pull up to the customer leads house, seeing the house on a hill like this is a blessing. Looks can be deceiving though.

super awesome video, chuck! thanks!

Thank you Chuck. You have a great attitude. I recently bought a tractor and I'm going to be backhoing my drain system. Got lots of ground water. Got to let spring happen here in NY before getting on it though. Thanks for some excellent teaching.

We have done this with no pipe at all and and it worked real well. You do need a little grade, even an inch or two. We dug a trench from the low spot we identified in a bad rain. we dug a shallow trench (like 6-8" deep by 6" wide) from the low spot to the ditch. We Lined the trench with screen fabric like you would use for a window screen. We filled with mixed rock. Folded the screen over the top and put a little soil over it. We had that place for over 10 years and it was still working when we sold the property.

Good job. Thank you for an interesting video. I'm a DIY'r and I also connect the corrugated pipe using a piece of corrugated. but on the outside of both pipes. You erred when you said it doesn't reduce diameter. Putting anything inside a pipe reduces the diameter and the excess fold is a potential clog contributor.Sometimes I connect the pipes by slitting the end and slipping it over the other pipe's end such as on a downhill run.

Nice job!

Great job!!

Thank you!

Good Info thanks

Wow you are awesome thank you for sharing your knowledge for free-now a sub!

Fantastic

Great video. Unfortunately I have irrigation. So I've dug ~450 ft by hand.

Great, awesome.

Working on my Drainage Issues now. All day to dig one trnch 30' Feet, then I treated myself to a Trencher machine, 60' trench dug with descending grade out to the street in 30 minutes! 💪Next is tying in all the 2" schedule 40 pipe. 🙏

Awesome work guys, as always!

love the way you made that free coupling!

Man, I gotta say, I could really care less about people’s drainage problems, as it’s really a mess looking at how bad peoples house layouts are in general, and I pretty much already have taken care of my drainage issues myself. But damn, Chuck is just a pleasure to listen to, and is such a nice positive guy, I just love the guy and his videos.

Great job Chuck and very nice video. Maybe you could send some of that rain up here. We could use it. Have a great day. Tom

Tip to help tarp from flapping around while running the trencher is get some landscape pins to hold it down at the end

Boy, I wish you were out our way I have a 50 foot ditch that was growing marsh like grass had the weeded very soggy. I got estimates of putting a pipe and dirt in it was almost $20,000. They were going to put 12 inch non-corrugated pipe. I don’t believe the going rate is that much I think materials would be 2000 most 1500 to 2000 for labor.

You need to come up to NC and rent trenchers. Half day is typically $175-$225.

Hi, great videos, have already helped me a lot. I want to extend to my existing FD. But, why put grave under the pipe? Wouldn't that water never get picked up by the pipe?

with Spring approaching - my annual depression sets in with my soaking wet backyard .. I am going to watch video after video until i hopefully come up with a plan to set in place, this is the year I conquer my wet backyard!

You can always plant Dypsis lutescens , Palma areca

Nice vid. How does the water flow up the grade like that?

You can buy it anywhere lowes Home Depot an most any farm supply stores Tractor supply an others but without fabric covered eventually it will stop up as for utilities you must call before you dig for locations of services can be marked.

great video, I truly enjoy your clear explanations of the process . Thank you for sharing your experience and skill it is much appreciated. lastly, I live in Chicago. Do you recommend a 2-foot depth on this to avoid freezing ?

There are more than likely other ground drains on your property and diverted away, the downspouts or maybe a french drain that is already existing and you can tap into it. I see a lot of people including my buddy using round river rock and that is a mistake. My buddy was going to use round pea gravel! Round rock that has been tumbling around in a body of water or manually tumbled to smooth out the rock is not a good choice, the voids created are small and thin and even with filter fabric wrap that rock and those minimal voids will eventually trap silt and plug up your porous trench. I have always used crushed #4 gravel or a number close to that in size. It would take double the years maybe even triple the years to deposit enough fine silt to compromise a drain with larger rock.

so i'm in N Florida and have a good amount of clay in which th water just pools - my thought is to run french drain with catch basins to a sump and then pump to the back drainage easement area. my question is do i just lay rock and pipe without fabric due to the clay? the property was historically flat farmland but was not leveled out properly

Come up to RI ...i need a system installed

How do you hydro jet in the future to clear roots intrusions or a blockage.

Use a small vegetable hoe to move soil back into the drain, way easier on the back. Awesome video.

How many areas of the yard and gutter down spouts from each side of the house can I run with a pipe to drain away? For example if I have 2 pop up gutter drains and I wanted to do a French drain around house and also add another low area on the same side of the house.

You walked by a tee in the drain to the left of the main run as you passed that your recording that tied into white down spout. It showed the white down spout attached to black pipe. Would you please explain why. Was that down spout a major source of runoff to the pool equipment at the lower elevation ?

Do you cut the pipe or make incisions along it at various points with hand saw or grinder to allow water in to it or just go to the lowest point of your yard with a grated end 🤔,

I have 5-6 areas in my yard that pool every (Southern) rain, plus a spot in my backyard that gets 8” deep every rain. The front yard ponding areas are spread all over (60’ apart in some areas), not in a straight line. Help! 🥺

Would this work on the side of my house where water collection occurs due to being I shade and despite the path runs downwards positive grade. It may be causing my basement water seapage

Will that keep crawl space under the house dry 👍👍👍👍🔥🔥🔥🔥

Are you lining the entire trench with gravel? Or just the areas where you have the low spots where you have the catch basins?

Is this the corregated pipe that has the little slits in it?

Do this the same way with a clay yard with standing water ? Even use sta-green ?

How does that flow uphill? I have almost the exact same setup. Street/sidewalk is higher than where I would put the French drain

I was doing a drainage with digging a hole and adding stone and fabric and while I was digging I saw a drain pipe which was going through my property but it wasn't mine is that normal I dug about 2 feet before I hit it

How about some imput water problems zone 5 Chicago.

I have negative grade flooding and downspout flooding. French drain PLUS ___ ??? Do I need a combination set of drains?

I have issue with my trench drainage system outside my garage. It gets flooded when rains a lot and water coming out to my garage . Any video to fix this ?

is it perforated pipe even when it's covered with dirt? Or just where the gravel is?

Is there a place that I can calculate how big/how much pipe I need for my project? I have a LOT of water to drain and I am concerned 4 inch won't be enough to drain it.

My entire backyard gets 4"-5" pools in even moderate rains. Takes days to drain off, so I need a french drain. How to go about measuring the topology so I can find the low spots, and also measure the grade to the street? I don't want to do a half-a** job or more work than needed.

hey chuck, how was you and your team able to push the water towards the exit point going up? will the water settle at the exit when it stops raining since the exit is upward? im curious because I dug my trench about 18 inches deep and wanted to connect to my existing pipes that discharge to the street. (i should of located my existing pipes before i dug) when the house was built, i think they only set the the solid pipe about 8-12 inches deep. now i have to transfer my pipe up 6 inches to the existing. will water still flow? i kind of gave up and my trench is just settled with water atm since that existing pipe is a little higher.

Great drainage. Only issue is these systems WILL clog over time depending on your location and your kind of soil.

Do you come to Lakeland Fl?

How deep are you making the trench?

uphill? so the pipe collects and water still pumps even if it's uphill? wouldn't you have stagnation after the pipe release most of the water?

Don't forget the best gravel to use for such projects is LIMESTONE 👍

Does the perforated pipe get clogged with dirt?

How can l prevent frogs and snakes from entering the day light drainage point? I have a cotton mouth problem.

Why not use perf pipe to the curb/street instead of solid. Thinking it would still flow if perfed.

You didnt show how you sloped it away. How deep did you have to go? How did it exit up hill?

How much does a job like this range from ???

how much would you charge for this job? how do you quote your installs

Are you in NE Florida?

Is there a way to repurpose that water?

I live in Pensacola, FL. We spent 7K on a field system and pump that DOES NOT DRAIN properly at all. Our property still quickly floods and takes half a day to drain, if at all. Is there ANYONE that you know that knows what they're doing, that you can recommend to fix this in my area???

Under the pipe or fabric?

So the drain off pipe trench is not lined with stones or sheeting? I've seen other videos that show the perforate pipe gets clogged with mud after a while. What gradient did you get going out to the road?

Hello great video thank you very much for sharing I do have a question. My house is on a hill and the hill starts at the back of my house down towards the front of my house out. To the streets? How would I encourage the water to go in the trains in the back of the yard

Do you have to dig the trench deeper as you move towards the front? Or is the trench the same depth throughout?

Can’t find this landscape fabric anywhere 😭

Is a 4” wide trencher sufficient or do you need a 6” wide.

Is it going to be clogged very soon because you did not use fabric there?

At what point did you connect the perforated pipe to the normal pipe? Thanks for the video

wow always amazes me how much money people have to be able to do this, its hard to live life without a good job!

you want to do mine in Norfolk va?

I like your concept. My only criticism is not to leave the pipe sticking out of the ground like that. Just stack some rock around it to kind of hide it and make it look better. If that is what you did off camera, it would be nice to come back and see the end result as things settle.

pulled out her termite bait trap too.

I know this is an old video, but I can’t find that green recycle sta green fabric. Everywhere seems to be out of stock. Any recommendations on where to buy it? Thanks!!!

Sta-Green Premium Landscape Fabric (Common: 3-ft x 300-ft; Actual: x 300-ft) Is this the fabric you talk about?

Is it worth it to install a back flow stop on these types of french drains in the case of flooding in the lower area or if you get to that point there wouldn't be much to stop the water from just seeping around it? I am going to be moving to a possible flood zone and I'd like to install some french drains to help, but I don't want them to backfire and let more water into my property; So I was thinking on the last few feet of down grade to have a solid pipe and a float gate/valve to prevent back water.

I have been watching your vids for a few months and I think I'm getting ready to tackle my problem would love to get in contact with u for your opinion first