re: Help with a french drain

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French drain" isn't very efficient, depending on your soil make up

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Absolutely, used to have a drainage and irrigation business and I rarely installed french drains as without sandy soil they will do you no good.

An option is to dig your drain but backfill with sand only which will allow the water to seep into the drain and run out.

9 times out of 10 wet spots can be alleviated with proper grading by bringing in some dirt to push standing water to where it will drain or tilling and regrading entire yard to slope correctly. If neither above is not an option properly placed catch basins will work much better than french drains in the clay soil we have around BR.