New! Vertical Drain - French Drain. Which One is Best For You?

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2 ай бұрын

Learn The Difference between French Drain and Vertical Drain.. Where is the best place use both types of drains.
Can we remove water with simple vertical drain? This video with Results! Watch and see!
This is called VERTICAL DRAINAGE - Best when you have a small area that floods and you cannot route the water to the street. EASY DIY LESS THAN TEN DOLLARS!
Yards with no Slope Need a Sump Pump and Catch Basins NOT a FRENCH DRAIN. Watch and Learn how this system works and Save Yourself 1000's
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The downspout Drain (Drain Tile) Underground Drain is the Most Important Drain in the Rainwater Drainage System. This Pipe Moves more water than any other drain .
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@kingtutt61 Ай бұрын

Love this channel.

@SamsLawn Ай бұрын

I have just read some articles about this and now I found these videos, super interesting! I have some drainage issues in my lawn, really heavy clay underneath the plant bed. Used a soil drill this weekend to try this method out. Let´s hope it works :) Since I am a lawn nerd my main concern is to get water away from the grass roots so it doesn't suffocate it, so I had the gravel a bit deeper so I have more soil and room for grass roots above it. Awesome videos, I just theory crafted this from the articles, wished I had found these videos earlier :)

@winstonian88 Ай бұрын

Hi Chuck. If the point of the drainage is to transmit water below the hardpan, why not just put corrugated pipe in vertically so there's more void? You'd need to put a grate covered in geo fabric at the top first to keep it from filling up with soil, but then you could cover it up and grow grass. Why wouldn't this be as a good or better than filling it with drainage stone? If the corrugated pipe is in danger of crushing over time, couldn't you just use the high octane stuff? Then the only question would be whether to use perforated or solid.

@suzied.8301 2 ай бұрын

Hi Chuck, I just found your channel this week & subscribed.. My name is Suzie D. I live in Williamsburg VA. I am in full panic ditch digging mode....lol .... I have learned so much from your content this week.... Thank You !! My house is at the bottom of a big slope/grade.... My crawl space is flooded. We used a sump pump to drain it. It wasn't always this way.... When we moved into the house the crawl space was dry & my yard was pretty level. about 15 or 20 years ago VDOT put a new road in front of my house & it drains down my yard. I went online and saw you do consultations. would I have an opportunity to send you an email with photos in advance of our call? This is Time sensitive as you might imagine.... I will call the number on your Website in the morning to check with you.... Thank you in advance for your time Check Suzie D.

@appledrains 2 ай бұрын

Hi Susie D! Yes please use the service sigh up and attach any photos. I’m happy to help

@ryanz7296 2 ай бұрын

HI, what is minimum distance from the house/foundation or concrete walk way to install Vertical Drain?

@janetbaker1945 2 ай бұрын

Hi! I live in Galveston County, Texas, where I have some standing water in the corner of a big yard, and I asked my neighbors about vertical drains and they said,' heck no, that won't work here, we got clay.' So I checked a US soil map and they're right! Will a vertical drain work in clay? Is there hard pan under the clay? Do you have to get under the clay layer? And suppose the run off is contaminated (with manure or whatever)--will it contaminate the underground water, the aquifer? Thank you so much!

@appledrains 2 ай бұрын

It will help!

@janetbaker1945 2 ай бұрын

@@appledrains Does clay soil have a hardpan, then?

@appledrains 2 ай бұрын

@@janetbaker1945 yes

@NicholasRadina 2 ай бұрын

Would this vertical drain idea work in Ohio? How is the depth of the hard pan determined?

@ohokayofficial 2 ай бұрын

Good question I think that’s the idea of how to gauge if this system can work in your area/grading. You probably have to determine which region you are in with soil, and then there might be an average depth for the hard pan. Could be 6-8”, but if you’re on a slope then it could be 2-3” (again, depending on the region in state)

@elizabethjacobs8980 Ай бұрын

Hi Chuck! Can you use this same method for a downspout? Our barn is at the back of our 1 acre property and floods around the downspouts, causing water intrusion.

@appledrains Ай бұрын

It will help, but the roof puts off tons of water

@rade95 2 ай бұрын

it didnt work for me, i guess i didnt go deep enough.

@applepie9786 2 ай бұрын

You also gotta take into account the permeability of your soil. This doesn't really work well in high clay content soils that don't drain.

@janetbaker1945 2 ай бұрын

Just like my other comment, but shorter: is there always hardpan, is it always about 24" down? Is it under the clay, or what?

@hotmetalslugs 2 ай бұрын

I’ve asked this on every “dig below the hard pan” video and haven’t heard a response yet. Never heard the term “hard pan” and have no clue what it is or how to tell what I have. I have dirt. Is that it? LOL I guess so. Or not.

@janetbaker1945 2 ай бұрын

@@hotmetalslugs Me, too. Notice I didn't get any answer here, either, to my question about hard pan in clay soil.And I, too, have asked it on other vertical drainage sites, and asked also random people who dig, like plumbers. I haven't tried a grave digger. Nobody has known the term 'hard pan.' Of course, it wouldn't kill us to just dig the darn hole and find out. But I was thinking just this morning to call one of the geology or engineering departments at a university near me and ask the desk who might be able to tell me where the hard pan (or any other term for what the videos might be referencing) in my particular area is. I will also try to find out about polluting the aquifer. I'm thinking about my water well. Our water table is high, and the standing water on my property runs off from a neighbor's place and they keep lots of animals and don't clean up too often. My well water is free of bacteria, and I'd not like to mess with that.

@appledrains 2 ай бұрын

Hard pan is non-permeable soil. It can be at any level. If it’s solid clay, then that’s your hard pan. Hope you find a good spot to try this method and share your results

@janetbaker1945 2 ай бұрын

@@appledrains I would like to try to find out how far down the clay extends (to get beneath it) before I start digging! But I'll persist and try to get back to this video to report.

@markc7954 2 ай бұрын

I think another name for the hard pan would be water table possibly, I have heavy clay sub soil the water pretty much stands and we getting more and more rain. The paved area next to my kitchen keeps filling up with water and it's hard to give this a drain away. It is working but it's still filling up at heavy down pours. A drain is present but I don't want to send the water towards the house. I also have a sump with a pump sending to a drain. Today the sump was dry for the first time this whole month and no standing water. The lawn is always like a swamp on both sides.