2 Catch Basin Collect MORE Water than 40 feet of French Drain
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- Catch Basins will move more water than any french drain. Watch and learn why and how to create and build the BEST Rainwater Drainage Systems from the name you trust!
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A quick note about pipe and sock.. There are many applications for perforated pipe with the sock around it. It works well in sand, and not so well in clay.
Several comments already about only using pipe with fabric around it. Much better is to install traditional French drain. Whether you use gravel perforated pipe wrapped in Geo fabric, or the easy flow. Both of these types of French drain will allow much better drainage because of the aggregate. Pipe and sock alone will work, but it will be very very slow to collect water.
Remember, add the catch basin’s to the low spot. This is the most effective way to prevent flooding in the yard.
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Great tip! Thank you ❗ I will keep watching your video till I get all my answers. Stay cool and safe❗😎🐾
Chuck, aside from price, can I just use EZ Flow the entire way?
I'm confused, why 2 different types of pipe?
@Crosby Kabir no problem =)
AWSOME info!!!! A wealth of knowledge and kindness. Sharing knowledge is an act of kindness.
I love all these videos and they go back SO MANY YEARS ! AND, never does Chuck ramble on with useless personal commentary like some of the others. Thanks Chuck. I believed I could do it and I DID !!
Shout out to Apple Drains for making their services become How-To videos. Extremely helpful for those of us that want to do it without hiring someone. If I lived in Florida I would support Apple Drains and use their services, but sadly I do not. I'm a new home owner and have a standing water problem and plan on doing all of what these guys showed me here soon. Thanks again Apple Drains & Chuck!
Thank you for another good video.
Excellent video ❗ It applies to my yard. Thank you Chuck ❗👍
Thank you for teaching us how to do this!
This was chuck full of good information. Thank you! Excellent content.
Your videos are just the best at explaining this system and giving tips! Thank you!
Thank you for your video's Chuck! I am starting my project next week.
Super thanks for so much of useful info.
Such a huge help thank you
I am loving your videos. I am planning my outside drainage with your guidance. I would love to send you a video of my yard to see what you think I should do.
outstanding video. thank you for sharing your wisdom.
Great information !!!
I can't thank enough to share your knowledge, YOU'RE THE MAN !!!
Great vid. I always learn something and that is money in the bank!
Thanks for the videos! They’re the best especially for people living in the south east. Some other drain tutorials are just rude…I prefer watching your videos any day. Thanks
😉 your videos are # 1 you walked me through doing a perimeter drain at my house in Newport Richey Florida 🌴 Thank You 🕺🙏🏼
I appreciate the fact u show us at store the items u purchased or recommend thank you
Your voice seems to be so soothing, relaxation to me.
Hey Chuck! I just finished my back yard project- a system collecting from a downspout, a catch basin in a low spot, and another catch basin on the corner of the patio that run downhill and out of the grass! I just wanted to say thanks for the inspiration to do this! (And yes, they are both the cheap catch basins!)
You can tell chuck knows his shit and is a money miser too. Look at his trucks. Nothing fancy. just shit to get work done. Much love chuck.
Brother in a day and age where it seems like everyone what’s to get paid for initial consultation you are truly class act with very formative and how to directional videos .. remember people not everyone’s landscape, yard or soil are the same so use your how to common sense and add ur edge how to ! Chucky showed me a template I will follow it but add my own touch and hopefully get where I need to be with MY drainage issues will definitely follow you Appleman
Great. Great. Great....!!!! I loarning alot!!
Hi Chuck, I'm a relatively new fan and truly grateful for your videos, I am a bit torn about the ends when installing drainage and was wondering if you have any or could share a video focusing on this part of the installation? I'm just unsure about how far out to go, and/or should I be adding a pop up at the end, when is it recommended, why, the difference with or w/o? Hope this makes sense and sorry if it seems like a dumb question......?
In watching several of your helpful and informative videos...there is one glaring omission. The omission is about grading the trenches downward to the sump basin or where the water is going to drain. Also, the electrical side of connecting a sump pump is needed in the videos. Thank You.
What options are there when the low spot is at your boundary at the end o your backyard and no real access to a storm sewer because it would be at a much higher elevation and 400 feet away with the house and the driveway block easy access? What's your opinion on leech fields? Thanks
All these RUclips guys make digging look so easy. Like no stubborn roots they have to deal with. Folks, when was the last time you tried digging in your property and didn’t have to break out a pick axe or sawzall to deal with roots? For me, never. I’ve always had to deal with stubborn roots.
Good afternoon everyone from wellington Somerset in the UK
hi great video as usual could u use this system with french drain and catch basin into a soak away crate system many thanks ;)
Hey!
When you put the dirt/sod back on, do you grade it to flow toward the catch basin? I have water pooling in 2-3 spots in the same side because of the way the dirt is. I wasn’t sure if I should take the dirt when I’m done and have it angle on both sides of the catch basin to have water flow into it.
Chuck I enjoy the fact you tell folks they can do it ,I may disagree on some things but usually I agree .The sock will work better in certain soils ,sandy soils a sock will work better then a clay type soil .Really heavy water flow volume areas I would keep the french Drain and catch basin pipes separate the volume of water is too much .
Do you recommend always drilling/making holes on the bottom of the basin regardless of the size? Is the primary reason for this to avoid the production of mosquitos? I am in the gulf coast area of Florida so the weather does vary, my concern is the foundation on two sides of our house, will this matter if I do so and are the holes always necessary? Thank you so much for sharing your wealth of knowledge.
I have a double wall black plastic drainage pipe around two feet in diameter. It goes from an overflow discharge on a farm pond to a ditch outlet. Do you think I could drill with 4 1/2” bit and add a 4” pipe and drains to get rid of ponding water on the surface? I am also wondering if I do tap into the larger pipe, how high up should I put the hole? The large pipe only carries water when the pond is full which it not often . However when there is a large rain and the pond if full, the discharge pipe will be full. Thanks for any suggestions.
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Been watching your videos Chuck. Much love. Lost my mom wednesday and they've been helping me through.
About a month ago i found you, before the big freeze here. (in pa). I dug out my old drain and installed a new one with a sock. Used a catch basin on a low spot like you suggested. So far it's been excellent. The old system was a freaking mud stone clumped PVC pipe. So now i have a legit french drain with daylight. She watched me install the whole thing. She was proud of me.
Sorry for your loss.. I'm approaching the same. Thanks for sharing
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I'm way out in the midwest. I just moved into a place with some drainage issues, with the carport flooding and the porch + driveway soon following. My lot has this perfectly good storm drain that the city put in. So I thought.. I'll just dig a 100 foot trench. Thankfully the storm drain is lower than the carport, and just digging gradually, starting at the street and going closer to the home and carport, picking up more surface water until eventually it stopped flooding.
I should note I started digging during the flood in question, which is probably a foul, but I couldn't stand ignoring it overnight.
It seems removing excess surface water ASAP usually means the ground can absorb the rest. The ground does indeed move some water, so the trench is still 5-8 feet from the carport, with the earth perimeter around the concrete being the lowest point.
I bought a few drain grates, T adapters and 4 inch flex pipes and planned on just having the water drop directly into the pipe, but installing a filter material into the grate openings.
After watching this video, it seems I could consider a perforated pipe in a sock. I was and still am concerned about water soaking back into the ground and re-saturating the earth from another location. Because it's the lowest point, I already have to dig deeper to get flow in the direction, and with over 100 feet of run. I feel its best to keep flow going one way, as far from the home and drive space as I can get it.
This area collects water from the neighbor, the home and the carport itself. I could install gutters and redirect some flow, but with so many other sources of water intrusion, I felt it best to start the drain at the worst spot, and run additional surface drains along the run, including from the gutters. Finally, because capacity might get overloaded in heavy downpours, I might opt to keep a trench for the final 30 feet of run that I can consolidate pipe exits with from other future areas. Widen it to a flat trench, wide enough to mow as a straight run. I can decide then if I'm happy with that or if its really worth extending, filling, and leveling the yard for a fully concealed system. As I favor visibility and access.. well.. to be determined
Great video
Thanks
It’s just best to use two separate systems. One perforate system for the French drain. And one solid pipe system for the yard drains (with catch basins) and downspouts. That way your French drain (perforated system) doesn’t clog up.
It seems like an occasional burst of downspout and catch basin flow would actually clean out the French drain as opposed to clogging it up. Just my thinking. ?
@@upsideways No, you’ll end up with leaves and other debris clogging up the inlets on the French drain perforated pipe over time. Whereas, on a dedicated solid pipe the water flow would keep it cleaned out and even if it were to get clogged (rarely) it’s super easy to jet out since it’s smooth solid pipe.
Thanks Chuck, your videos are great! I have a question.
Do you need to set the french drain with a decline from the catch basin to the sump basin?
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I have a question I need to install a drain in my yard it’s a ditch line but water stands in it does the pipe have holes all away a around the pipe or does it have holes on one side
Could a large catch basin (e.g. 24x24) with a grate lid be used as a sump pit and collection simultaneously? See any issues with that? Thanks for the great videos!
Absolutely. Sump basins (used in this application) normally collect water through seepage. The primary concern with a grate lid over a sump basin: Increased potential for debris collecting in the bottom of the basin where it may clog the impeller of the sump pump. Best practice: Install a screen under the grate.
love you videos,doesn't rain much where I am in Arizona,I am trying to put gutters in my house,my cuestion is should I need drain system?thanks
I'd try to collect & save that water! Be sure to use downspout extenders to divert the water several feet away from your house. If you have no slope directing water away from your foundation, you might need some drainage. Water & moisture are a structure's #1 enemy.
If I have no discharge to daylight will a pop up work? I know you don't recommend dry wells.
Carlos Santana is awesome!
What type of license do you need in florida for this type of work?
Thank you for your informative video.
Would you be able to tell me, why do you not use the cheaper and better option to install decorative swails to reroute stormwater to a chosen place where it can be used to water the garden, to cultivate acquatic plants such as lotus flowers, water lillies and the like?
The end result would be far more stunning, and possibly around the same price!
The rerouted runoff can be used to create a fish pond and enhance the landscape.
I would love to hear your thoughts on the subject of swells, rather than inserting plastic into the environment, Sir, please.
Muchas gracias,,
Franklin
Many places, especially newer subdivisions, don't have the room.
Chuck another great video BUT WE WANT TO SEE YOUR WORK IN ACTION!! You could've easily run a garden hose into one the catch basins and showed the water entering the sump basin and then at the outlet near the street!! PLEASE show your awesome work in action!!
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Love the videos. You keep saying the job is easy and it’ll be quick but we didn’t see you dig one bit lol I understand your a team, but I would hate to work with somebody to take all the credit, when I’m doin the job lol
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How do you clean a French drain with several catch basin
Could I just add a catch basin with no French drain, could it just drain anyways?
But if you have a tremendous amount of water, a river flowing next to your slab that turns into a backyard lake, I am having trouble seeing how the catch basin is relevant. Seems like a sump pump in the back yard with simple hose running uphill to the ditch in the front yard is the answer. I'd be interested in hearing your expert opinion. You make wonderful videos. Thank you!
My catch basins don't get debris in them, but they do clog easily in a really heavy rain from leaves, mulch and other debris - even with an atrium grate on them.
try adding a custom cut piece of 1/4 inch galvanized hardware cloth placed between the easy floe catch basin and the green cover
. it will prevent the mulch and leaves from infiltrating your system.
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fyi.... I live in TN and have a french drain deeper than 28" around an entire yard even grid style. It pulls so much water out of the ground it's ridiculous. The ground is rock hard after a 2" in 1 hour rain event. Having said that. I have no issues keeping grass alive without a sprinkler system because there is 6" of soil on the top layer. So you can pull a lot of water out and still not have a plant issue.
thanks for sharing your experience
Good to know, thx
Why did you use different pipes?
Been watching your videos and you put out some great stuff, however there is some contradicting information between this video and French Drain Man's videos on how french drains should be installed (i.e. how deep the trench should be and what should surround the pipe). Here it seems the french drain overtime will start to float upwards and no longer serve its purpose since trench is not very deep and there is no rock or aggregate to stabilize the area or create that additional void I would think you need to allow water to drain more freely into the french drain pipe. In addition, there are video out there of this type of pipe being extremely thin and collapsing. These are just my observations and I could be totally wrong as I am no expert in this field. Either way thanks for the vids.
I've had a contractor say the perforated black pipe is crap. But in this video a sump pump must be used. French Drain Man doesn't use sumps.This is first time I've heard of going to deep. Looks like the EZ flow pipe is not deep. Worried about the lawn or plants? Water them !!!!!
Many times the depth depends on the area/region. Frost line has to be considered. Chuck is mostly in FL. He does state the EZ flow is best for sandy soils like in FL. Different contractors prefer different products, but it doesn't necessarily mean one is better. I dont like the double-walled corrugated black pipe. But my soil is expansive & flexing causes PVC cracking. My yard is riddled with underground obstacles, the corrugated pipe enables us to curve around them vs creating a complicated PVC layout full of expensive elbows. The right pipe is the pipe that is appropriate for the site conditions & the one the homeowner can afford.
Perf pipe may be great in sand, where there are no trees. Otherwise, roots will enter and block the flow.
what happens to those buried corrugated pipes when someone jumped on top of them?
Can I use the perforated pipe with a sock with catch basins and not use the gravel? I will have 3 catch basins connecting to 2 tees and the main drain line is about 30 feet long, discharging to daylight
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What is the true about "easy flow" floating and popping up the ground?
LOL
That’s just crazy
It would be great to show before and after drainage as part of these videos - if you actually have the time to do so.
I have a pop up emitter, when I mowed over it the mower blade sucked the valve up and cut it off.
Try putting a set screw in the top.
Thanks but I don’t think the valve would open if I put a screw in it.
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I had that happen too. I just replaced the pop up with a grate. I works great. No more sucking up my pop ups with my mower.
What is the proper grade for french drain? 1%-4%?
1% every 1” drop every 100ft
@@thuanngo30 I think you mean 1” down every 100” run. Otherwise, 1” down every 100ft run would be 0.08% which is much too shallow of a grade 🙂.
But you can't just use catch basins alone. Correct?
Styrofoam will want to float with enough water soaked in it .. it will eventually push its way out of the ground.. the crushed rock I have seen you guys put down looks much more sufficient
Soooo much incorrectness in one sentence. Styrofoam is insentient and therefore cannot "want"; objects that absorb water become heavier, and thus do not float; Styrofoam is impermeable to water; the collective buoyancy of Styrofoam aggregate in drop-in french drain sections products is insufficient to overcome the frictional forces with substrate when french drain sections are installed to minimum recommended depth per site conditions. But sure... toss a drop-in french drain section into a pool and that sucker floats... handy use, if you ask me!
chuck I cannot turn off the patriot survival food Ad. I'm missing the las half of your presentation. thanks, Dave
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Wrong!!! One hard rain here in fla and it is filled with sand
Unlike some other joker pushing his own line of products, I dont feel like your scamming.
That other guy just thinks he’s better than everybody else and wants to discredit other people’s perfectly good work.
bad editing of the video, repeats sections of the same video. might want to double-check your content before you post!!!
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