Do It Yourself French Drain
How to Install a French Drain Pipe
First
determine if you have a place where the drain pipe can be daylighted while using gravity to drain the pipe
Mark & Measure the length of the pipe run
- Excavate a trench at least 6"
wide & starting 24" deep depending on your situation
- Excavte the trench & make
sure you have a good drop for the water to flow by gravity
- Line the trench with Landscape fabric
on the bottom & up the sides of the trench leaving enough to overlap the top & ends after the pipe is installed
- Install 2" of pea gravel paying careful attention to the grade
- Install the perforated
drain pipe with the holes down, This will prevent dirt from entering the holes
- Finish covering
the pipe with pea gravel to within 4" to the surface & cover with the Landscape fabric
- Now install coarse sand on top & then your Sod, Grass seed or crushed granite or any other groundcover
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