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Help with a french drain
Posted on 6/3/15 at 11:46 am
Posted on 6/3/15 at 11:46 am
The west and south sides of my backyard hold a lot of water. I would like to install French drains that connect in the SW corner and then empty into a drainage pipe in the SE corner. I am not very familiar with putting in a French drain, can anyone point me to a good starting point?
Both drains will be 50'-80'
Both drains will be 50'-80'
Posted on 6/3/15 at 11:48 am to KJason
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Both drains will be 50'-80'
That's a lot of drain
Posted on 6/3/15 at 11:54 am to KJason
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Both drains will be 50'-80'
Say what?
Posted on 6/3/15 at 11:57 am to KJason
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can anyone point me to a good starting point?
Hire someone that knows what they are doing. If you try to do that yourself and you don't get it right, you end up with a bigger mess than you have now.
Posted on 6/3/15 at 12:13 pm to Broke
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Say what?
Care to elaborate?
What is an acceptable length?
Posted on 6/3/15 at 12:15 pm to KJason
Where do you live? I could give you a name or two.
Posted on 6/3/15 at 12:17 pm to KJason
I'm a do-it-yourselfer type, but I installed a french drain a few years back and I'll never do it again. That length is going to be hell to grade correctly. Pay someone with the skills and tools to knock it out in a day or two, instead of spending three weeks covered in mud staring at a level.
Posted on 6/3/15 at 12:23 pm to nhassl1
Baton Rouge. Pecue and Airline
Thanks for your replies. Sounds like I'll be hiring someone
Thanks for your replies. Sounds like I'll be hiring someone
Posted on 6/3/15 at 12:38 pm to KJason
Your going to need a minimum of .02% slope for it to drain correctly, start at the pipe you want it to empty into and work the grade back a to make sure you aren't going to daylight the pipe
Posted on 6/3/15 at 1:11 pm to KJason
Sorry to hijack, but I had to look it up cause I didn't know that's what it's called but I overheard someone talking about it saying that because there is such a wide variety of the types of soils around the Baton Rouge area that a lot of times a "French drain" isn't very efficient, depending on your soil make up.
Any truth to this for some of you who may know?
Any truth to this for some of you who may know?
Posted on 6/3/15 at 2:04 pm to Citica8
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French drain" isn't very efficient, depending on your soil make up
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.
This post was edited on 6/3/15 at 2:52 pm
Posted on 6/3/15 at 4:54 pm to Tbooux
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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.
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