To me the best part, the absolute triumph of your work is when you go a revisit and show the final result IRL. Many videos here in RUclips or regular TV never show the product of their work in months or years later. You do. Thank you for that.
Quality work will always save you money in the end. My uncle has a sign on the end of his workbench that says "Of course I don't look busy, I did it right the first time."
Yeah, that's a bloody curse that is. I work in datacenter/servershit and if i do my job well enough, im almost not needed and people don´t even know they have a datacenter.
That reminds me, How does a company know it has a World Class IT Team/Department? They're so rarely called with a problem, no one can remember what the IT's Phone Extension/E-Mail Address is...
nah they made a rookie mistake see 13:00 the drain pipe at the street should have had concrete bore hole cutter used instead of a cut at the top the of concrete this makes it look tacky with new cement on top (THIS would also save $$$ on concrete mix and wasted labor time )..... Now that would be Quality work
@@varjen018 The curse of IT. When everything works "Why aren't you working!! WTH DO WE PAY YOU FOR!!"... When the system is down "OMG!! NOTHING IS WORKING!! WTH DO WE PAY YOU FOR!!!"
Dug four conifer stumps and a pear tree like that out by hand at home. It was hellish. Shovels, trowels, trenching spade, pick axe and a saw all needed. Couldn't have got an excavator in, but it would have been so much easier.
I hate that you run into neighbors that are so unwilling to work with each other. I use my tools that I have to take care of my neighbors. I snow blow their driveways, power wash their fences all just to be neighborly.
money can be a huge factor in this. some neighbors may not have the time or money to focus on projects like this at the convenient time to do it. also, age. trying to convince an 85 year old neighbor that thousands of dollars of work needs to be done is .... well.. futile. but idk how old or what the circumstances of the neighbors in the video are
I remember this house from an earlier video where your men had to haul dirt to the back fence using wheelbarrows. Good to know that the homeowner got back to you because you did well the first time. The stump ripping was a wonderful gesture.
The stumper attachment is really the way to do it vs a bucket minimizing the overall dirt removed w less holes etc etc to smooth & fix...Only downside is it cant be used in combo with the thumb for picking up, although its not really designed to used in tandem anyway. Larger 2 teeth can for larger machines though dont really line up correctly.
@@GCFD Yes, Yes, Yes, I agree with @Oldstock, a wonderful gesture, not to mention the fact that you guys seem to overly honest and aboveboard in everything you do. Such honesty, dedication, and expertise are rare these days. What a great example you set for other businesses.
I'm happy you were willing to help the homeowners with leaving the soil where they wanted it, and allowing them to take on spreading it on their own instead of some contractors who would tell the homeowner to kick rocks
I thought the same thing lol. Also I wonder how much they “saved” by not taking the drain to the end of the property, I know nothing about this sort of stuff being a city dweller with a super lol. Hopefully homeowner didn’t have you come back to extend it…again.
@@k_bodgcoThe gravel will still drain the water and it will flow to the pipe eventually. The ground dirt (clay?) doesn't seep through the water so it all acts as an undergrounds stream through the gravel.
Sweet stuff! I think you have a client for life there. They're gonna need new fencing/posts everywhere and topsoil everywhere and eventually a moat, with a bridge at the driveway curb cut, to surround their entire property.
... watched the first part of this and my first thought was that the F.Drain should have ran the entire length of the property line to begin with; however, budgets are budgets and something in this case was better than nothing!
Now that the trees are gone, can do a landscaped burm to really hold it and hold the edge of the new trench.. really nice job you did for them. 😊 It's not even mine but I'm happy! Lol
haha I was wondering if anyone would notice that. He was telling Jeremy about that job yesterday. I said I noticed how he was hauling gravel around on that buggy like a boss! That buggy was a fantastic addition.
Boy jobs are easy to sell when your good work sells the job for you. Always love your videos and everyone remember to thumbs up the video. You buy the equipment you need too. Water reaching that fence line is put in it place. Hope your able to get back to this site when it is raining. That’s what I like about your videos you always try to show you work later doing it’s job
That's one the best feelings there is---to do good work that undeniably solves the client's problem, not even considering the water coming off the neighbor's lot, and they're so happy they come back to do more business. Very satisfying. Congrats!
@@GCFD good tip for removing stumps if you have a helper get them a reciprocating saw to cut the stabilizer roots and tap roots An east coast gent taught me that one pass it on.
Nice to see that the customer called you back to the site when their budget allowed more work to commence. Your worker takes a lot of pride, sweeping rocks as you unload the gravel from the dump truck. And he handles that pocket level as well as I've ever seen anyone handle their tools. Also, it's nice that you use multiple cameras so we can see different views of the same activity to get a better feel for the whole job.
Nice job I once hand dug around the foundation of a two car garage to get water away from it. The drive was about one hundred fifty feet long so I hand dug a dry sump and ran water there. Worked pretty good
Typically, in my experience, most residential subdivisions have ordinances that prohibit drainage from one subdivision lot on to an adjacent lot. In the case of your customer, they were experiencing nuisance drainage from two adjacent lots, which would be grounds for legitimate complaints and remedy by the neighbors. That said, the French drain along the side yard was probably the most practical and expeditious (as well as the cheapest) solution. You came and resolved the issue much more quickly and effectively than any attorney could have. The trench along the back of the lot, to route drainage from the rear neighbor's lot across the customer's lot and onto the swale on a third lot is more problematic. If I were the customer, I would have maintained the berm to prevent any drainage from the rear property on to my lot. And leave disposition of that drainage to the uncommunicative rear neighbor.
Absolutely true, better to put resources to use and SOLVE the problem directly instead of engaging in costly litigation and uncertainty of outcome. I had a friend in a similar situation choose the litigation route against neighbors with a bigger budget to legally defend themselves and needless to say it did not go in his favor. I always warned him against litigation ONLY to be used as an absolute LAST resort. The whole situation caused a rift in his family where he was cut off and ostracized for the bad decision to litigate. Ultimately this bad situation, along with depression and substance abuse issues caused him to take his own life. So tragically reckless and misguided. AVOID the legal system at ALL costs and just hire a contractor to do the job right!!
Today I learned that I need a motorized wheelbarrow on tracks. Nice work. Also - thank you for the clarification that the rear redirection was going into a swale and not into someone else's yard. I wondered about that in part 1 - didn't seem like something you'd do, but the question "And then what?" popped into my mind.
Good update, I feel like you restored equilibrium to the world by carrying away the water from the back neighbour's boundary. A ditch is fine at the back of a garden - they can even award themselves 'habitat' brownie points.
4 am an boom gate city drainage back at it again love the vids i have no experience no training in drainage but i find my self telling people about drainage for no reason and if i ever do drainage i will indeed use sced. 40 pvc 😉🤣🚽🪠🚿🛁🚰➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️⤴️⬆️⬆️⬆️⤵️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ "Path of least resistance"
very fascinating watching your channel and how North Carolina is different. Here we have to use filter fabric because we dont have granular soils. that gravel would be plugged full of dirt and the pipe full of dirt in no time. I am glad you guys have a system that works! Also, great job venting the pipes via the cleanouts.
Magnificent difference in that back yard from the beginning of the first video to the end of the second. The first French drain worked just as you said it would! 👍
I must say Sean, I really like the way you work, and your commitment, as we've seen over your videos, to buying the right tools for the job. Nothing worse than someone cheeping out on themselves before they've even started on the job they are going to do for you.
I agree. Get in with the right tools and right people and get the job done. A customer today said I had a really great crew because we did just that! 👍
Good work on this job I like how you work with your customer in tandem to save them money. Most contractors only look to gouge their customers this shows your character, I hope your customers appreciate that. It is funny my comments on the last video match almost exactly what you did thumbs up.
I’m curious how much money it saved them to not run the 10-12 feet of pipe to the end of gravel? 15 bucks in pipe seems strange place to save money considering you have been helping them in many areas of the yard. Thanks for the video.
We didn't have to dig the extra area down either - we just topped with gravel. Since there wasn't much water crossing at the very top I think it worked out well.
@@GCFD agree the few inches you did dig down will catch water and flow down to the pipe. It must have been a very tight budget! We can’t work for free though. Enjoy your Sunday!
nice to see the sequel to this backyard. and nice to see the concrete buggy in use. it's a good thing I don't own this garden because I had made a waterproof wall at the back along the fence to keep the water on their side. what a bad people they say to make THEIR water surplus a problem for someone else and let someone else pay for the costs too. with kind regards Hollandduck from the Netherlands
I see it all the time and I never redirect water onto a neighbor without some type of permission and assurance that it won't cause problems. Thanks for watching! - Shawn
It's good to see that the streets and storm drains can handle all the drainage flow from 4 or five house lots. Right? I bet all these homeowners water their lawns prodigiously when it's dry. That'll be a project for another day - installing an in-ground watering system.
It's an enormous take saver. I have a huge FD project where we brought in 16 ton of gravel with limited access. The buggy killed it and saved all our backs!
Shawn. Nice equipment. That buggy was a great time saving this job. Looks like it holds about two good sized wheelbarrows. Thanks. Keep em coming Buddy.
Hopefully the other the two homeowners have hired you to fix their yard ponds as well and hired you guys! Nice work. I just had to do some water and drainage work on my house and it's not easy work.
I need this in my back yard. My other problem is the wind blows the rain onto my patio and floods it. Scares me that the water looks like it is going to flood the house. Only thing I can think to do is enclose in the patio.
That's what you get when the builders of all those houses cheap out. 1 to 2 inches of topsoil isn't going to cut it at all, it should be closer to 4 to 6 inches of topsoil as all that clay does is impedes the drainage of all those yards. I can't believe people would be happy with crushed rock all along the perimeter of their yard, at least cover it with nicer looking river rock as a top layer at the very least. Very little good drainage techniques are used in this video as it looks like an extremely simple solution to an ongoing problem for many in that neighborhood I'd imagine.
Great job on this project. We lived out in the rural with a property of 60 acres so we don't have to worry about neighbors. We do have a problem with rainwater puddling along the side of metal shop where we are living. We have a very high clay soil so my question is can I do what you do here with the exception of using the high commercial grade geotextile fabric to lay it down as the barrier to keep the clay soil from coming to the rocks on top of the fabric then lay down the pipe and finish the top off with more rocks, leaving it just like you did here, the only difference is that bottom layer of fabric because we have high clay soil. Also, does the size of rocks you use in your method here matter at all?...if so, what type and size did you use? Thank you so much.
I agree... I'm surprised that the home owners didn't him him finish everything! I also agree that I would be surprised if the home owners never finished the project!
The only improvement to this project I can think of is that you probably should have upsized your final trunkline connection from the end of the french drain to the curb. The steeper slope probably helps with capacity, but adding that extra 20 ft will really make it run full. Awesome work
10:03 that really nice if you to do, and it also makes a person a lifetime customer; as they know you will treat em right and care about your job and them👍🏻 I’m also gonna say, when they do have the money; you’ll be back to finish adding the pipe to the back and side😉, and nothing wrong with that👍🏻 Having a good relationship to clients/customers (whichever ppl call “them”) is a good thing, and it gives repeat business along with potential business from great service thru word of mouth😊
In part 1 you said the HOA only allowed one pipe to the road, Was the HOA involved in helping your customer with negotiating with the neighbors concerning the water run off? I guess not since your customer left notes with one of them with no response. I really don't understand HOA. From the outside looking in I would think the HOA should have been more involved with this project, what are dues for?? Thanks for teh video. Like your work, nice and clean install!
You can't cover it with grass because the soil would stop the water from flowing into the gravel. You can cover with decorative river rock or stepping stones to improve the looks.
Nice work on the extended job. Also digging out of the remaining root balls. I know how hard it is, to dig those out by hand and how heavy they are too.
Shaun, great work as always, the way vents work in pipes though, you could have just cut the vent pipe like you did and move it to the end and it would have worked the same. Having 2 vents on that line wont improve the flow. so could have saved on a sanitary tee. But like I said, great work, I think this property is actually one of the best ones to demonstrate just how effective your french drains are. That picture from the last time that shows the neighbors flooded yard and then this property owner's side of the fence is an awesome contrasting photo!
I think you're probably right Torrey. I did two vents more so in case one ever got clogged up. I like redundancy and high capacity so I was happy to spend another san tee. Great comment! 👍
That's good they seen the benefits of paying to do the work twice (it should have been covering the whole fence to begin with to be fully effective) but does sound like they are still wanting to pay the minimum to get it done (probably pay you a 3rd time later on to finish all the jobs off) unsure how bad the back of the garden is wouldn't be surprised if they ask for another pipe along the back (after getting to the end of the video it looks like a mess not much fall on the other side of the fence, but they said they was going to be doing the garden work on it this year I guess)
You don't - The PVC cement creates a weld connection fusing the 2 materials in this they sliced off the of fitting and re-used it with a collar connector ar the far end
Hey Shawn, question for you. I have downspouts that go underground and they go out to the storm sewer at my property. My gutters go down into clay piping in the ground and the clay pipe goes to the storm sewer (I stuck a line camera down there when I first got the property). Anyway, I’m looking to put a few yard drains in my yard (a few grated drains and maybe 1 channel drain). My question is, since my clay pipe downspouts that my gutters go into underground already go to a storm sewer, can I hook my yard drains up to those existing underground pipes? So you see any problem with that? I will have plenty of fall to the clay piping. Would love to get your opinion and thanks!
You could do that if they are working. But those clay pipes are probably really old and if the line fails, your whole system fails. I would run a separate line for your new drains so you know you are covered. It will be much more labor intensive running a separate line, but more capacity is always a good thing.
To me the best part, the absolute triumph of your work is when you go a revisit and show the final result IRL. Many videos here in RUclips or regular TV never show the product of their work in months or years later. You do. Thank you for that.
Quality work will always save you money in the end.
My uncle has a sign on the end of his workbench that says "Of course I don't look busy, I did it right the first time."
That's awesome.
Yeah, that's a bloody curse that is. I work in datacenter/servershit and if i do my job well enough, im almost not needed and people don´t even know they have a datacenter.
That reminds me, How does a company know it has a World Class IT Team/Department?
They're so rarely called with a problem, no one can remember what the IT's Phone Extension/E-Mail Address is...
nah they made a rookie mistake
see 13:00
the drain pipe at the street should have had concrete bore hole cutter used instead of a cut at the top the of concrete this makes it look tacky with new cement on top (THIS would also save $$$ on concrete mix and wasted labor time )..... Now that would be Quality work
@@varjen018 The curse of IT. When everything works "Why aren't you working!! WTH DO WE PAY YOU FOR!!"... When the system is down "OMG!! NOTHING IS WORKING!! WTH DO WE PAY YOU FOR!!!"
you are the kind of contractors everyone wants to hire. I usually get the ones that say for an extra $3000. we can get them stumps out for you
Thank you! I didn't charge enough for how difficult those stumps were, but we got it done 👍
Dug four conifer stumps and a pear tree like that out by hand at home. It was hellish. Shovels, trowels, trenching spade, pick axe and a saw all needed. Couldn't have got an excavator in, but it would have been so much easier.
How nice of you all to solve the uncooperative neighbor's pond problem.
Indeed. but we solved the homeowner's problem too. Funny how that works.
Man, if I were the homeowner I would have left the berm and just landscaped in front of it. Awesome updates and explanations.
The mole was cute. Thanks for being kind to him
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This is a perfect example that if you do good work providing a great product people will always come back for more.
Thank you!
I hate that you run into neighbors that are so unwilling to work with each other. I use my tools that I have to take care of my neighbors. I snow blow their driveways, power wash their fences all just to be neighborly.
I do the same thing! It seems easy to be a good neighbor.
Neighbors are not always "neighborly".
money can be a huge factor in this. some neighbors may not have the time or money to focus on projects like this at the convenient time to do it. also, age. trying to convince an 85 year old neighbor that thousands of dollars of work needs to be done is .... well.. futile. but idk how old or what the circumstances of the neighbors in the video are
@@tirkentube that’s a good point if the neighbour’s are very old. They’re either unwilling or don’t have the money.
That was nice of you to get rid of the stumps for them 😊
looks like you fixed every ones problem! the back neighbor owes you at least a thank you
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I like the fact you show us after how it working !
It's the most satisfying part!
Should build a little concrete wall there so the silent neighbor can keep all that precious water on their side ;)
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I remember this house from an earlier video where your men had to haul dirt to the back fence using wheelbarrows. Good to know that the homeowner got back to you because you did well the first time. The stump ripping was a wonderful gesture.
Thank you! 👍
The stumper attachment is really the way to do it vs a bucket minimizing the overall dirt removed w less holes etc etc to smooth & fix...Only downside is it cant be used in combo with the thumb for picking up, although its not really designed to used in tandem anyway. Larger 2 teeth can for larger machines though dont really line up correctly.
@@GCFD Yes, Yes, Yes, I agree with @Oldstock, a wonderful gesture, not to mention the fact that you guys seem to overly honest and aboveboard in everything you do. Such honesty, dedication, and expertise are rare these days. What a great example you set for other businesses.
Nothing better than a Do More, good job!
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What is really impresive is to see how your young helper does odds and sods as he waits for you to load the dumper.
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Cant believe that mini got those big stumps out!
👍 It's a beast!
I'm happy you were willing to help the homeowners with leaving the soil where they wanted it, and allowing them to take on spreading it on their own instead of some contractors who would tell the homeowner to kick rocks
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I love how you take care of living life in your work, hope the little maul find a warmer place.
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They will destroy all your yard... i take care of them with gopher gaser...
I enjoy seeing the follow-up that the end. Good work@
Thank you Alexei
Who wants to bet $5 the homeowner will have Shawn come back and finish spreading the dirt piles lol
hahah it's a possibility!
Is this your yard lol
I thought the same thing lol. Also I wonder how much they “saved” by not taking the drain to the end of the property, I know nothing about this sort of stuff being a city dweller with a super lol. Hopefully homeowner didn’t have you come back to extend it…again.
@@k_bodgcoThe gravel will still drain the water and it will flow to the pipe eventually. The ground dirt (clay?) doesn't seep through the water so it all acts as an undergrounds stream through the gravel.
Man you do great, honest work, going the extra mile for the customer. Good to see that.
thank you Joshua!
Beautiful work guys.
Thank you Dave!
Sweet stuff! I think you have a client for life there. They're gonna need new fencing/posts everywhere and topsoil everywhere and eventually a moat, with a bridge at the driveway curb cut, to surround their entire property.
Haha
very efficient and well scaled operation.
... watched the first part of this and my first thought was that the F.Drain should have ran the entire length of the property line to begin with; however, budgets are budgets and something in this case was better than nothing!
Now that the trees are gone, can do a landscaped burm to really hold it and hold the edge of the new trench.. really nice job you did for them. 😊 It's not even mine but I'm happy! Lol
Thanks for commenting! The homeowners have some big plans for the yard.
Great, quality work. And good on you for helping her out with the stumps and a few other things.
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Shawn, and to all the guys and gals on the crew WTG great job! Ronald keep up the good work you're a good man Charlie Brown.
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Looks like they need a dry rock bed for that back fence. Great work. That stump digging is no joke
Yea I agree about the stump removal. I charged $25/ stump! I must have forgotten I had my little excavator instead of the bigger one. 🤦♂️
Your grass is growing good too. One thing I always do is fix the yards. Some many company's don't do that. But us greats ones do.
The customer really notices stuff like that. We clean up all our trash and haul it away.
Nice result for your customer. That yard will be a great place for family now.
Thank you Wendy!
Ronald is good at operating that dump buggy. Great job Shawn and crew.
haha I was wondering if anyone would notice that. He was telling Jeremy about that job yesterday. I said I noticed how he was hauling gravel around on that buggy like a boss! That buggy was a fantastic addition.
Boy jobs are easy to sell when your good work sells the job for you. Always love your videos and everyone remember to thumbs up the video. You buy the equipment you need too. Water reaching that fence line is put in it place. Hope your able to get back to this site when it is raining. That’s what I like about your videos you always try to show you work later doing it’s job
Thank you David! thanks for watching and commenting, - Shawn
That's one the best feelings there is---to do good work that undeniably solves the client's problem, not even considering the water coming off the neighbor's lot, and they're so happy they come back to do more business. Very satisfying. Congrats!
Thank you! This was a wonderful project and homeowners to work with!
Your concrete buggy sure saves a lot of labor that you would of needed in the past , and your ripper tooth made quick work on the stump removal too !
Yea that concrete buggy was a huge game changer for us!
@@GCFD Tracked buggy > Wheeled buggy
@@GCFD good tip for removing stumps if you have a helper get them a reciprocating saw to cut the stabilizer roots and tap roots
An east coast gent taught me that one pass it on.
Nice to see that the customer called you back to the site when their budget allowed more work to commence. Your worker takes a lot of pride, sweeping rocks as you unload the gravel from the dump truck. And he handles that pocket level as well as I've ever seen anyone handle their tools.
Also, it's nice that you use multiple cameras so we can see different views of the same activity to get a better feel for the whole job.
Thank you! I usually have four or five cameras going and use the best footage.
I'm curious to see how this customer's backyard progresses with time. Fascinating stuff.
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Nice job
I once hand dug around the foundation of a two car garage to get water away from it.
The drive was about one hundred fifty feet long so I hand dug a dry sump and ran water there. Worked pretty good
Nice!
I figured making a lake in the back neighbor's yard would cause some hostilities.
Very Nice!
Way to help !
👍 Thank you Frank!
Typically, in my experience, most residential subdivisions have ordinances that prohibit drainage from one subdivision lot on to an adjacent lot.
In the case of your customer, they were experiencing nuisance drainage from two adjacent lots, which would be grounds for legitimate complaints and remedy by the neighbors.
That said, the French drain along the side yard was probably the most practical and expeditious (as well as the cheapest) solution. You came and resolved the issue much more quickly and effectively than any attorney could have.
The trench along the back of the lot, to route drainage from the rear neighbor's lot across the customer's lot and onto the swale on a third lot is more problematic. If I were the customer, I would have maintained the berm to prevent any drainage from the rear property on to my lot. And leave disposition of that drainage to the uncommunicative rear neighbor.
I’d have put a massive berm and planted trees in it
Absolutely true, better to put resources to use and SOLVE the problem directly instead of engaging in costly litigation and uncertainty of outcome. I had a friend in a similar situation choose the litigation route against neighbors with a bigger budget to legally defend themselves and needless to say it did not go in his favor. I always warned him against litigation ONLY to be used as an absolute LAST resort. The whole situation caused a rift in his family where he was cut off and ostracized for the bad decision to litigate. Ultimately this bad situation, along with depression and substance abuse issues caused him to take his own life. So tragically reckless and misguided. AVOID the legal system at ALL costs and just hire a contractor to do the job right!!
Great job lads
Nice to see some daffodils so far from home too 🏴
Today I learned that I need a motorized wheelbarrow on tracks. Nice work. Also - thank you for the clarification that the rear redirection was going into a swale and not into someone else's yard. I wondered about that in part 1 - didn't seem like something you'd do, but the question "And then what?" popped into my mind.
Thank you for watching! - Shawn
Great project Shawn
Thank you Doug!
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Nice work
Build a wall so it pools on the neighbors lawn! I bet youll get a hold of them then!
Good update, I feel like you restored equilibrium to the world by carrying away the water from the back neighbour's boundary. A ditch is fine at the back of a garden - they can even award themselves 'habitat' brownie points.
Nice work.
thank you! 👍
Great video. I think customer should just continue the drain around the back and get rid of all surface water.
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Would the contours of the lot support that solution? Or a 2nd French drain across the back and down the opposite side of the property?
Great job
Thank you!
4 am an boom gate city drainage back at it again love the vids i have no experience no training in drainage but i find my self telling people about drainage for no reason and if i ever do drainage i will indeed use sced. 40 pvc 😉🤣🚽🪠🚿🛁🚰➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️⤴️⬆️⬆️⬆️⤵️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️
"Path of least resistance"
Thanks for your support Mike! I'm glad you're enjoying my channel! - Shawn
Just found your channel. You do awesome work. You're a good man to rip out those stumps.
Thank you! I did that almost for free 🤷♂️
Exceptional company and video, thank you!
Thank you!
Always a good day when Shaun uploads a new vid!
Thank you!
very fascinating watching your channel and how North Carolina is different. Here we have to use filter fabric because we dont have granular soils. that gravel would be plugged full of dirt and the pipe full of dirt in no time. I am glad you guys have a system that works! Also, great job venting the pipes via the cleanouts.
Thanks Tim. That was another viewer who told me to vent the cleanouts. Now we do it for all FDs.
Magnificent difference in that back yard from the beginning of the first video to the end of the second. The first French drain worked just as you said it would! 👍
Thank you Steve!
I must say Sean, I really like the way you work, and your commitment, as we've seen over your videos, to buying the right tools for the job. Nothing worse than someone cheeping out on themselves before they've even started on the job they are going to do for you.
I agree. Get in with the right tools and right people and get the job done. A customer today said I had a really great crew because we did just that! 👍
Excellent videos, so glad you do a revisit in the weather after it rains. nice closure :-)
Thank you Brian! I like that part too!
Wonderful!
Good opportunity for a nice water feature along the back boundry.
Sure could use your company in South Alabama. Great work and like the follow ups on the work...enjoying the videos!! 👍👍
Thank you Steve!
I don't even need a French drain but I just want one now
That's exactly how I feel when watching these videos... I wanna go find a problem so I can fix it 😂
haha Nice. It's a great feeling to solve a problem like this. 👍
You nail it !!! Right, also for me this project was really satisfying to watch all the progress.
Real nice work. Looked great. Works well. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for watching! - Shawn
Good work on this job I like how you work with your customer in tandem to save them money.
Most contractors only look to gouge their customers this shows your character, I hope your customers appreciate that.
It is funny my comments on the last video match almost exactly what you did thumbs up.
Thank you Ghost! 👍
Again, I say…great job
thank you! - Shawn
I’m curious how much money it saved them to not run the 10-12 feet of pipe to the end of gravel? 15 bucks in pipe seems strange place to save money considering you have been helping them in many areas of the yard. Thanks for the video.
We didn't have to dig the extra area down either - we just topped with gravel. Since there wasn't much water crossing at the very top I think it worked out well.
@@GCFD agree the few inches you did dig down will catch water and flow down to the pipe. It must have been a very tight budget! We can’t work for free though. Enjoy your Sunday!
nice to see the sequel to this backyard.
and nice to see the concrete buggy in use.
it's a good thing I don't own this garden because I had made a waterproof wall at the back along the fence to keep the water on their side.
what a bad people they say to make THEIR water surplus a problem for someone else and let someone else pay for the costs too.
with kind regards Hollandduck from the Netherlands
I see it all the time and I never redirect water onto a neighbor without some type of permission and assurance that it won't cause problems. Thanks for watching! - Shawn
It's good to see that the streets and storm drains can handle all the drainage flow from 4 or five house lots. Right?
I bet all these homeowners water their lawns prodigiously when it's dry. That'll be a project for another day - installing an in-ground watering system.
Nice to see the concrete buggy getting used that much. Looks like a huge time saver compared to not having it
It's an enormous take saver. I have a huge FD project where we brought in 16 ton of gravel with limited access. The buggy killed it and saved all our backs!
Another good one, Shawn!
Thank you for uploading
Thank you for watching! - Shawn
Great work you guys!
Thank you!
Shawn. Nice equipment. That buggy was a great time saving this job. Looks like it holds about two good sized wheelbarrows. Thanks. Keep em coming Buddy.
Thanks for commenting Jim! I've got a big project uploading right now 🕓
You guys keep impressing me! The last couple video's really show your dedication and always keep the customer in mind. Please keep sharing!
Thank you! We have a full week this week so we will have projects getting done. Then just waiting for rain again for the wrap-up shots!
Great job. I've done many of them French drains and dry creek beds
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Hopefully the other the two homeowners have hired you to fix their yard ponds as well and hired you guys! Nice work. I just had to do some water and drainage work on my house and it's not easy work.
I need this in my back yard. My other problem is the wind blows the rain onto my patio and floods it.
Scares me that the water looks like it is going to flood the house. Only thing I can think to do is enclose in the patio.
Enclosing it would solve the water on the patio and give you more indoor living space. I love it when solutions serve two functions!
That's what you get when the builders of all those houses cheap out. 1 to 2 inches of topsoil isn't going to cut it at all, it should be closer to 4 to 6 inches of topsoil as all that clay does is impedes the drainage of all those yards. I can't believe people would be happy with crushed rock all along the perimeter of their yard, at least cover it with nicer looking river rock as a top layer at the very least. Very little good drainage techniques are used in this video as it looks like an extremely simple solution to an ongoing problem for many in that neighborhood I'd imagine.
Yes we recommend placing a more decorative rock of pavers on top of the gravel, or incorporating the gravel into a border.
Great job on this project. We lived out in the rural with a property of 60 acres so we don't have to worry about neighbors. We do have a problem with rainwater puddling along the side of metal shop where we are living. We have a very high clay soil so my question is can I do what you do here with the exception of using the high commercial grade geotextile fabric to lay it down as the barrier to keep the clay soil from coming to the rocks on top of the fabric then lay down the pipe and finish the top off with more rocks, leaving it just like you did here, the only difference is that bottom layer of fabric because we have high clay soil. Also, does the size of rocks you use in your method here matter at all?...if so, what type and size did you use? Thank you so much.
I agree... I'm surprised that the home owners didn't him him finish everything! I also agree that I would be surprised if the home owners never finished the project!
Or have him come back and finish the project for them!
That fence ain't gonna last too long sitting in all that water on the other side!
Luckily now the water has a place to drain away.
The only improvement to this project I can think of is that you probably should have upsized your final trunkline connection from the end of the french drain to the curb. The steeper slope probably helps with capacity, but adding that extra 20 ft will really make it run full. Awesome work
10:03 that really nice if you to do, and it also makes a person a lifetime customer; as they know you will treat em right and care about your job and them👍🏻
I’m also gonna say, when they do have the money; you’ll be back to finish adding the pipe to the back and side😉, and nothing wrong with that👍🏻
Having a good relationship to clients/customers (whichever ppl call “them”) is a good thing, and it gives repeat business along with potential business from great service thru word of mouth😊
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In part 1 you said the HOA only allowed one pipe to the road, Was the HOA involved in helping your customer with negotiating with the neighbors concerning the water run off? I guess not since your customer left notes with one of them with no response. I really don't understand HOA. From the outside looking in I would think the HOA should have been more involved with this project, what are dues for??
Thanks for teh video. Like your work, nice and clean install!
What about the 2ft wide gravel pile you're left with? You can't cover that with grass or anything?
You can't cover it with grass because the soil would stop the water from flowing into the gravel. You can cover with decorative river rock or stepping stones to improve the looks.
What do you call that cool machine used to cart around (and dump) dirt/stones? Its like a motorized wheel barrel?
How deep did you dig and how many inches of gravel were below the pipe?
You dig deep enough to hit dry clay and not mess up your fall. There were 2-3" under the pipe in this case. 👍
@@GCFD thanks. Love your channel. I've learned a lot from you.
Do you need to run the perforated the whole length of the gravel? Or will the gravel help channel it to the pipe?
The gravel helps but we did run perf the whole way. 👍
could you put raised beds (the ones on legs) over the french drain, to hide it a bit and use the space?
Yes as long as no dirt is over top of the FD to clog it up.
Nice work on the extended job. Also digging out of the remaining root balls. I know how hard it is, to dig those out by hand and how heavy they are too.
Yea they were hard to dig out with the machine! Thanks for commenting! Shawn
Approaching 10K Subs... Congratulations 🎉...
👍 thank you!
13.5k (+1 more) now.
Stimulus money well spent😏
Spend that stimmy.
Looks like the track buggy really help in the labor department.
It is a massive time and labor saver! I have more videos coming where we use it.
Shaun, great work as always, the way vents work in pipes though, you could have just cut the vent pipe like you did and move it to the end and it would have worked the same. Having 2 vents on that line wont improve the flow. so could have saved on a sanitary tee. But like I said, great work, I think this property is actually one of the best ones to demonstrate just how effective your french drains are. That picture from the last time that shows the neighbors flooded yard and then this property owner's side of the fence is an awesome contrasting photo!
I think you're probably right Torrey. I did two vents more so in case one ever got clogged up. I like redundancy and high capacity so I was happy to spend another san tee. Great comment! 👍
That concrete bucket is as handy as a pocket on a shirt.
I agree. I can't believe I even hesitated on buying it! I can move rock by myself with it and the ex and the guys love it.
How long does the straw need to stay down for?
It decomposes pretty quickly and the grass grows up through it. Once you start mowing the straw is pretty much gone.
That's good they seen the benefits of paying to do the work twice (it should have been covering the whole fence to begin with to be fully effective)
but does sound like they are still wanting to pay the minimum to get it done (probably pay you a 3rd time later on to finish all the jobs off)
unsure how bad the back of the garden is wouldn't be surprised if they ask for another pipe along the back (after getting to the end of the video it looks like a mess not much fall on the other side of the fence, but they said they was going to be doing the garden work on it this year I guess)
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Just curious, not something I am trying to do. How do you break the pvc cement to get those connections separated?
You don't - The PVC cement creates a weld connection fusing the 2 materials
in this they sliced off the of fitting and re-used it with a collar connector ar the far end
@@bengrogan9710 ahhh thank you. So you leave a piece of the pipe connected to have room for the coupling. Makes sense.
You got it! We call that little connector piece a Nipple. I told Ronald to cut the cleanout off but leave a short nipple so we could re-use it.
Great job guys, for a long term point of view, homeowner would be better off getting the rear of the property fitted with the French drain system
When is part 3 - saving the mole?
Kidding...good work.
Haha
Hey Shawn, question for you. I have downspouts that go underground and they go out to the storm sewer at my property. My gutters go down into clay piping in the ground and the clay pipe goes to the storm sewer (I stuck a line camera down there when I first got the property). Anyway, I’m looking to put a few yard drains in my yard (a few grated drains and maybe 1 channel drain). My question is, since my clay pipe downspouts that my gutters go into underground already go to a storm sewer, can I hook my yard drains up to those existing underground pipes? So you see any problem with that? I will have plenty of fall to the clay piping. Would love to get your opinion and thanks!
You could do that if they are working. But those clay pipes are probably really old and if the line fails, your whole system fails. I would run a separate line for your new drains so you know you are covered. It will be much more labor intensive running a separate line, but more capacity is always a good thing.