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And if you wrap the drainpipe and the gravel in the fabric and then put turf on top?

How about Drain Pipe vs No pipe, just gravel

Why not dig with a spade shovel and use peanut pipe, that is what the French Drain Man does?

ruclips.net/video/aFZM_BY6jBw/видео.html - interesting point here. Government never uses fabric... proper sized stones (the smaller the better) and sand around instead of fabric..

The fabric process speaks for itself.

4:02 would the fabric not get clogged up just like the rock? All it’s doing is filtering but that means the fine silt is clogging up the fabric ?? No 🤔

quesetion and I might be wrong here. what will happen long term when the soil gets pushed against that fabric over the years? will it end up clogging the "wholes" in the fabric?

Thanks, but I'll take the guidance of civil engineers that have literally stated in print, in FEMA status reports that: "Because geotextiles are prone to installation damage and have a potential for clogging, their reliability remains uncertain." "It's the policy of the National Dam Safety Review Board that geotextiles should not be used in locations that are critical to the safety of the dam." So all that orange you see flooding through your precious fabric is precisely what will eventually clog it, just like it clogs the stone. The absolute best practice that will essentially last forever, is a dual-layered filtration substrate.

My curb sits a bit higher than the yard. Will the water still drain?

Really you “do” want you lawn or yard to soak into your ground. You just don’t want it on be up against or even in your foundation or basement. Too many people try to get rid of the rain and then turn around and install irrigation. Huge waste. 😂

Great vid! What are your thoughts about using Schedule 40 versus corrugated if you live in Northern Florida??? The ground never freezes. Thank you

B-52's. Classic

Good job chuck

From how it looks to me, they all have the same amount of mud. Also just by looking at the bins, the one without fabric has the healthiest grass. Not sure if I’m sold

If you use the 6oz why don't you show it in the test? And don't forget there is a world outside the USA where we don't have 'Lowes' and we don't use ounces.

PERFECT comparison, Thanks for your work!

This is simply not a very useful comparison test. Why not use a measured amount of water poured on top and catch and measure how much goes through in a specific amount of time? You say that putting something on top of the landscape fabric will stop it from working. How about actually doing so (on ALL the fabrics) to actually prove your assertion? I got very little useful information from this video other than that, when stretched out in mid air and with water flowing from a hose on them, ALL the fabrics drained.

Where is the video on where to but the fabric

How much soil can you put over the French Drain with out creating plugging issues. I'm working on putting a French Drain in a concrete raised planter

My opinion, you should be reported or scam for child abuse for endangering homeowners for ecological disaster

@1:08 who told you to put clay on top of a drain? Wow I mean I’ve only been doing this for 51 years but wow.

2 people every job? LOL tell my old boss that.

Every Fabric drained the water! The white Lowe’s stuff does look thin and cheap but the #4 and #8 drained the worst of all of them! And the landscape fabric drained fine as well, I’m not sure what this test is supposed to be proving

No 1 Bucket works great !

No 2 and 3 Buckets show that the clay will accumulate inside the fabric that does as a filter ... and most probably will clog them overtime.

Could you do a discussion between the use of the Charlotte PVC pipe vs these systems discussed above .. or is it just cost / ROI over the years with the slotted pvc vs polyeth drainage pipes

DUDE !!!! .. Thanks for the class . . I now understand what the heck I have been watching between all these videos out there . . thanks !!!

Confused i thought the french drain was the surface water thing. If not what is it. If so what is the lower water drain called.

Link to fabric no longer works

im thinking about using the NDS ez drain pipe it has the pipe wrapped and poly rocks wrapped around it already but im curious if i should use another layer of fabric on the bottom then lay the pipe down or is the fabic that comes around the pipe good enough? my soil is dirt on top about 10 inches down then i have clay .

For a retaining wall, would you not place the fabric down first then place the stone, then pipe, then more stone all the way up until the last foot or so of a wall with the fabric fully wrapping the stone from the bottom all the way up? I have clay and also see very different ideas on how deep the drain should be. above the footer, or at the first level of block below the wall grade?

French drains in meritimes canada need to have no dirt or grss growing on top as it all ends up in your drain and you have to redig . Especialy wrong fabrick

Thanks for your intersting video. What does schedul 40 mean?

I went to this video to see the #6 fabric you recommended in a prior video. Where the #6 fabric?

What kind of filter fabric do you recommend? I didn’t see the product? Thanks

All of these are wrong, pvc is a far superior product. Use it

Another live test done, great to see this test. Thank you for showing us instead of just telling us.

Finally someone that actually does a test and demonstrates rock drainage, most don't do this. Thanks for putting this together!

Great video, helps visualise the benefits

The 4 oz and 6 oz fabrics are quite expensive but are better. The 2 from lowe’s will tear pretty easy especially if they have been in the ground for a couple years. They are trash.

why put dirt on top at all cant you just leave rock exposed

The first one with no fabric removed the water the fastest though. The others took longer with the exception of the water that went straight into the surface drain. It was dirty water but the water escaped way faster! I like my problem water moved fast.

This is for ground water, not downspout drainage, right?

So what fabric do you buy? thanks

I was curious the way that you install the fabric is it just on top or is it wrapped around the sides and bottom and the top like a burrito as they say?

Wish you had a much larger container to do full taco wrap with clay on outside of all and then the others without fabric for true conditions. Just would like to see that

I would suspect that a system with fabric will become less and less effective over time as the fabric becomes clogged. Maybe an optimum system would be no fabric, and gravel in the trench all the way to the surface. If you don't mind gravel at the surface.

Sarah, sit! Sarah, stay!

Why not show a video of your drainage system in action?

Can a car drive and park on a spot with a french drain?