For anyone being overly critical in the comments or claiming to be a pro… why are you watching this in the first place? Good video man

I like the fact that you also did a decorative & practical rock and gravel in the dry creek you drained everything into

I'm a civil engineer, you did a great job. Attention to detail is everything when it comes to this kind of job.

@StrayFire

11 ай бұрын

I'm an actual civil engineer from Germany and this man just spend way too much time and money to achieve something that could have been done way easier and cheaper with less maintenance over the years. And all of that, because he hates it when it rains once a month in his area. Gotta catch that KZread money I guess.

@kd2239

11 ай бұрын

@@ailmlvr5905 - Yes, all french drains are built using perforated pipes. You will sometimes find a similar design along the edge of motorways and other roads too. How do you think the groundwater will find its way into the pipe if it is not perforated?

@allwoundup3574

11 ай бұрын

lmao @ the 2 dorks having a pissing contest in the comments

@kd2239

11 ай бұрын

@@allwoundup3574 - Hahaha!

@CP-nf9my

4 ай бұрын

@@StrayFire Please enlighten us. I have a real problem.

Your supervisor sure was keeping a close eye on you while you were working on your downspout. Thanks for another interesting and informative video. Mike

@KomarProject

Жыл бұрын

Haha ya I noticed that when I was editing lol. She is always on the job

Thank you! My front and back screened in Porch flood badly. The previous owners neglected to tell us that when we bought the home so imagine my surprise when at the first storm water flooded both areas to almost 5 inches. We do have a French Drain but it's not doing it job. I called several companies with promises of helping me with this situation and no shows. So I'm going to have to do this project myself. Thank you for your helpful advice. Hope to get this problem fixed soon.

This is a great video-I installed mine this way over 20 years ago around my house and its still works today

@kingtut5923

Жыл бұрын

Did the guy use duct tape?

Nice job. I like how you added the non perf pipe to carry away the downspout water. I had this same issue and did this back breaking job last summer. Only difference is I added a few more catch basins to move the above ground water quicker as my septic field slopes toward the back of my house .

Thanks for the video. I will be doing this in the late spring, once things dry up, and your video will be a good source of information. Luckily when I moved into my house last year, I bought a tractor with a backhoe, knowing all the land work I will have to do.

It was what I was looking for. Very easy to follow the steps. It works!

Thank you so much for this video. We just built on raw land over the winter and this is our first spring here. We just had a heavy rain and noticed a SERIOUS drainage issue. I have a lot of work to do but this gave me the confidence I needed.

@patty109109

11 ай бұрын

Spring is brutal. Every spring I have a couple spots that are always standing water. Only in last couple days are they starting to dry out, and one I’ll be unable to mow for another two weeks-only then does the spring rain start to dissipate.

Great job. 👍🏽 very good how to video. I'm using this video for a friend's yard. It's exactly what he needs to do at his home.

Great job describing the installation of this system!! Thank you!

This was amazing and great to see step by step.. it's encouraging to know that it can be done.. thank you for taking the time to instruct..

GREAT video, easy for the layman to understand.. .

Great installation, most people don't understand that you need to use a solid line for your down spouts. The only thing I would add is that I would use rigid PVC drain pipe or SDR-35 storm drain pipe. You have a fair amount of mature trees on your property, their roots will seek water. The roots have the potential of clogging your french drain line. If that happens to the corrugated pipe you will have to dig it up and replace it. If you use rigid pipe you can call a rooter company and have them snake the line and you're back in business again.

@tracygresham4869

Жыл бұрын

Thumbs up on the rigid pipe. also help maintain the slope.

@Wakeywhodat

8 ай бұрын

I'm leaning that way now. Using storm drain pipe means I don't need to use gravel or cloth, right?

@demolay8

7 ай бұрын

​@@WakeywhodatI'm no expert but I think you may still want gravel at the very least, because it will create a path-of-least-resistance and guide the water to the pipe. The sheet may still be handy to keep sediment out

At 9:12, it looks like you are connecting your downspout to the french drain (pipe with slits in it).

Excellent. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us. Stay safe.

there's a french drain in our yard and the sound of it draining in heavy rain is always fun!

Very awesome video. Currently under contract with a home me & my better half are trying to finance. Hope all goes well & if so, a French drain will probably be the route that I take. Just one of many projects for the future

Great project! Lots of awesome pointers. Thank you. Only thing I might recommend would be grates at the end of your lines. To keep animals from nesting in your pipe.

Want to do something similar with a dry creek as well! Thanks for this. Hope you have a vid on the dry creek too!

This was incredibly informative and helpful. Thank you.

Great video ....crazy informative and concise all without being boring!!..nice work

That's a ton of water 😲😳 great video, and thanks for taking the time to create and educate us. I'm so pleased with the result 👍 love the dry creekbed. Great look ❣️❤

great content. i learned so much about my own project. thank you for your time and education!

really enjoyed the video, yard looks good im ready to do mne i think . THANK YOU

Great job. So much work but definitely had to be done for your years.

Just want to start by say Happy new year and a massive thank you for sharing you project/ ideas and all the advice, needed this video, we are currently a full wraparound extension, it has not stopped raining, starting to see damp patches on new walls, the garden is full of clay under the soil. So you can imagine how bad the drainage is around the house, need to sort it ASAP, have been soo stressed with it all. Thanks man ❤🤛

Great job. I did learn from doing my drainage dry creek bed not to use the small gravel on the bottom because it just washes away or ends up at the end of the trench clogging the culvert. I ended up just using the big rock I put on the sides of the the dry creek bed for all of it.

@joanies6778

10 ай бұрын

Another how to video shows that pea gravel can solidify over time, too. They recommended the larger round river rock.

Very nice job! Thanks for the detailed description.

very good work. I loved working with this team

Big project. Well done!

We bought an old house in western Oklahoma to be our forever home. It was sitting on rock hard clay. Shredded mulch, seed and worm castings spread thin over the yard will get the job done. We only had to do it once too. It's been about ten years since then and my yard is like walking on pillows. Except a race track that our dogs have packed down running their route around the house. It pretty much does the same job as a french drain, because our basement has not flooded since our second year. I like the way you overbuild though, mad props. Thanks for the content.

@KomarProject

Жыл бұрын

Thanks brother! Keep those gods running lol

Very informative thanks for sharing your diy projects 😊

Landscape fabric stakes work well to hold it open during filling and for wrap\closure as well. I've done two so far, one for the lakes on my gravel driveway by the house and one for the gravel road leading to my house. Nonwoven Geo fabric is great stuff.

@melissalynn7608

Ай бұрын

Are you able to walk on top of the drain?

So patient for such a big project!

Not certain how I feel about the downspout drainage with all that water making contact with the wood on your house...that said this was an OUTSTANDING video. Very clear and informative! I learned a lot! Thank you!

My sister had water leaking into her garage and back porch because the way the soil was graded. Thankfully she sold her house but anyways so glad you demonstrated this! Always enjoy your videos

@KomarProject

Жыл бұрын

Ya water can be a pain in the butt. Thanks so much for checking out the videos JewDd!! Is much appreciated !!!

@jewdd1989

Жыл бұрын

@@KomarProject thank you for creating! You put a lot of hard work into your content and it shows 🤘🏽

thats a nice video, thanks for the info, those roof drain catch-all thingys are the bomb! that's what I need!

Bart great job. Glad it's working out very well. Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work my friend. Keep making. God bless.

@KomarProject

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Jared. It’s one of those things that I’m glad is working better then I expected

@SchysCraftCo.

Жыл бұрын

@@KomarProject yes most definitely.

Wonderful job. In Alaska now on my raw land looking at the snowmelt/standing/runoff water now and I’ve got a big solo job ahead of me at this remote location.

Awesome job guys. This is just what I needed. Thanks for sharing. GBU

Henry Flagg French (1813-1885) of Concord, Massachusetts, a lawyer and Assistant U.S. Treasury Secretary described and popularized them[3] in Farm Drainage (1859).[4] French's own drains were made of sections of ordinary roofing tile that were laid with a 1⁄8 in (0.32 cm) gap in between the sections to admit water.

@blakeg1984

11 ай бұрын

Oh wow.... Bet that would work great!... Could be a cool use for discontinued roofing tiles

@moonwolf3378

11 ай бұрын

That’s good to know…i have been talking about installing a French drain to my guy workers…they don’t know much but if I show them, they get to work and do what i ask…so they speak Spanish and I’ve been telling them Drenaje Frances…like the country French, haha… the correct literal term in Spanish would be agricultural drainage or drenaje Agricola - nothing French about this. From Massy too and have been to Concord…

Excellent lesson! Thank You!

Wow great work sir..Well done...impressive

👏👏wow, quite the project and great job !!

Awesome work! A really nice job.

Great work I’m a landscaper and a lot of customers request these.

Really awesome job! Excellent video

Very informative. I found this very helpful and appreciate you breaking down the steps. I also found the info about the freeze-proof sump pump connector extremely valuable as I had mine freeze up last year...now I know how to fix it! Looks like your Pennington Ironite helped. I just bought some of the Pennington coated Super Seed lawn seed...will let you know in a couple weeks how it works! Thank you Komar Project for all this info!

@ASSOL3

Жыл бұрын

How's the Super Seed doing?

@AndrewDonovan-uw1wg

Жыл бұрын

Led me to think

Excellent work done yourself.....awesome

Seasonal rain streams, love it !

Dayuuuuuuuum beautiful video my friend. Am going to do this to mine. Before my basement gets flooded.

Very nice video and explanation, it's the most helpfull video I have wathcing. Thank very much!

That perforated drainage pipe we here in New Zealand have a sock that goes around the whole pipe, so all you do is full the trench up with gravel from the bottom and both sides and top and you're done! 👍👍👍

@mikeinjapan2004

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tip! How would I make sure slope is downward? I don't want to dig too much on the other end...

@otofoto

Жыл бұрын

​@@mikeinjapan2004 String and bubble.

@mikeinjapan2004

Жыл бұрын

@@otofoto can you explain 'bubble' please?

@otofoto

Жыл бұрын

@@mikeinjapan2004 Bubble level.

@johnnance1414

2 ай бұрын

The only problem with that type of pipe is that your gravel will eventually get silted in and stop water infiltration.

Wow, great job , every house should have this system in place when a house is built.

@BrianKrahmer

8 ай бұрын

whether it's needed at all entirely depends upon a lot of factors. i have no gutters and no water issues at all at the house i built at 9000' in the CO mountains. semi-arid climate. i will, however, be using a system like this for an upcoming house i will build in north Idaho

great footage, explanation, and documenting

Excellent. Thanks for sharing!

Thank you for the idea about putting two pipes in the trench. Seems obvious in retrospect but this will really help me out.

@KomarProject

10 ай бұрын

You are very welcome. We have had it in for over a year now and it’s worked beautifully. Our yard is dry

This was the absolute correct installation...no shortcuts here.

3:40 actually, 1% slope is closer to 1" per every 8', rather than 9' or 10'. because there are 96" in 8 feet. And there are 120 inches in 10 feet. So if you dropped 1" per 10 feet, then you only dropped 1"/120" , aka 0.83% which is less than 1%

@5ch4cht3l7

11 ай бұрын

lmao these units

@1992jamo

11 ай бұрын

@@5ch4cht3l7 Meanwhile if want a 1% slope in metric, then you just drop 1cm every meter. In imperial you'd need to drop 1 13/64" each 10 foot lol

@colbybrand5326

11 ай бұрын

You actually want 2 % for drainage, but sometimes you just don’t have it. But people always forget that you do have 4” in the pipe.

@Andrew-ut1yv

23 күн бұрын

This guy Maths!

As a commercial inspector for a local gov't , I wish every contractor could perform that function. Good job.

Well-done and informative video! Thx.

Awesome video great job good technique and information.

1% slope is not 1” for every 10 feet. To get your slope get the total distance in inches than times by .01 for 1% . So 10ft x 12= 120 inches x .01 = 1.2” not a big deal for short distances but you need to do the math for longer distances and get it right. GL

@tobiasknowles5555

10 ай бұрын

it's almost like they need to generage a numerical system to improve this.

@joefletcher5859

9 ай бұрын

It’s 1” for every 8.3 feet. That’s the math. but yes over large distances it’s easy to use phone and punch in numbers

@pmurnion

9 ай бұрын

​@@tobiasknowles5555Lol! Yes, on a base 10 ...

@jazz1tup

8 ай бұрын

@@tobiasknowles5555 Or they could invent a new bad ass name for something not even remotely straight forward. Since they already have names for measuring things in feet, thumbs and what not, how about measuring angles in butts? 1 butt may be a quite reasonable angle of 67.5478223 degrees, which is an angle of an average butt in a missionary position.

@Gruuvin1

7 ай бұрын

Close enough. Was it really worth the criticism?

Big job. Well done

Love that catch basin

Awesome job. You may have thought about water tight sealing your joints and connections.

This was awesome to watch.

Thanks a lot for your informative video. I have a muddy back garden from the rain and thinking to put the French duct drain and my question is where it will be finally drained please ? Thanks

I am a pro plumber and people always ask me to clear their storm system. 99% of the time there is no access and nothing I can do besides dig it up. Good job planning ahead!

Amazing video! 👏 just wish there was more information out there on where or how to drain the water in the city. Can't always tie into the storm drain.

I like your approach. What I would do different is to rent a sod cutter to set a consistent and thick sod piece to the side. Once the trench is filled with rock and fabric, I can add soil, level it with a garden rake then place the sod on top. Just need to keep the sod moistened. Nothing wrong with your approach IMHO, just sharing what I've done in the past and how I like to do this kind of project. I haven't had good luck with standard gray duct tape once exposed to dirt and water. Thought the first tape you used at the beginning looked better. That looked like a gorilla exterior grade tape that was 4-5" wide. That is some incredible tape.

Great video..We just closed on our 5 acre homestead and one of the issues we are gonna need to tackle is drainage..It actually rained during our walk thru and also when the inspector was out so he noted areas that needed to be addressed, one of which was where the pool pump is located as water is draining down to it so this will fix that issue an we can cut a trench down to the pond.. Keep Crushing It!! Stay HUMBLE, Stay HUNGRY, Stay FOCUSED...~The Jarhead Entrepreneur

@KC-ic7vi

Жыл бұрын

shut up

@hotmetalslugs

7 ай бұрын

Homestead?

Thank you 😊 You are a smart man.

Amazing video.. great job

Great video brother, unfortunately I live in California so I don’t have to worry about a lot of rainfall each year, very informative and well done.

@jerryg957

Жыл бұрын

Ya , never rains in southern Cal

Nice job on this project and congratulations on 1 million subscribers. I just became another new one now. Continued success - although I'd much rather see a 'zeroscape' feature where your 'lawn' is... takes a tiny fraction of the water and is good for the environment.

Thanks for this great video.

Couple tips from a landscaper… - use the excavator to tamp the soil - use flashing tape if using tape as a second added layer of connection - install a “ Y “ clean out valve by the bottom of downspout - use a small butane torch to cut the tarp instead of a box knife - use a separation fabric the line the bottom of the trench. Use a geotextile tarp to “burrito” wrap the drains to allow water to pass

@Seasheasells

14 күн бұрын

Doesn’t the separation fabric under the stone restrict the ground water from coming up into the perforated pipe? Im asking because im planning my project and there is a lot of debate about fabric vs no fabric. Id like to use fabric because I think over time the clay will migrate upwards and suck up the gravel. Id like to protect the gravel but I also want to maximize water flow to the perf drainpipe. Thanks in advance for any tips.

Awesome work, I recently started working in farming, we have a clay soil, we were recommended to plant winter rye as a cover crop, keep it short like grass and eventually the roots reach so deep that it will drain through clay. We haven't planted them yet but we are planning to this year.

@brad3378

Жыл бұрын

Very clever idea

@joeshmoe7789

Жыл бұрын

If graded properly, water will run over the tight roots of grass. This is why they recommend to plant grass right up to the house. Shrub and flower beds allow water to drain into the ground and to the foundation.

@lehmejoun

Жыл бұрын

@@joeshmoe7789 So if I understand you correctly, grass roots doesn't allow water drainage?

@joeshmoe7789

Жыл бұрын

@@lehmejoun A full, thick lawn will slow water from penetrating into the ground compared to just plain dirt, rocks, sand, gravel, etc. If you have low areas that pool up, the water will go down but slower thru grass. If the ground has fall or a downward pitch, a good amount of water will run over it before it has time to penetrate. If your roof water downspout empties into a flower bed that's relatively flat, the water often drains into the soft top soil and runs underground to the foundation. Extending the downspout out past the open dirt can make a big difference as long as the lawn is graded away from the house. The best is to have grass right up to the house, but cosmetically, it's not always pretty, especially in the front. All properties are different, but I can assure you that if you can eliminate roof water dumping on to flower beds and running over a somewhat thick lawn away from a house, you might not need underground pipes. And just as important, keep gutters and leaders clean. Overflowing gutters send water almost straight down against the house. Hope this helps.

@lehmejoun

Жыл бұрын

@@joeshmoe7789 That was good advise and educative, thank you.

I like the video so far. For getting the slope you didn't mention the classic stake and string

I love the dog appearing in the window at 7:25

On thing I did on the same type of project was to use 4X4 plastic sheets so I did not kill my grass with the extra dirt. When I was done you could hardly tell any excavation had been done.

I like to put cloth fabric on the catch basin to help keep the system clean

thanks so much .Very helpful

Thanks, really helpful!

What a great job! I wish someone could help me with this project.

Hi, very informative. With the part where you use the bobcat for the gravel, i had similar issues over 3 days of shoveling, on the last day my neighbor came over and advised to use a metal garden rake and simply prop on top and drag back towards me, the gravel will follow the rake and fall into the trench. I wish he told me at the beginning of the job :) Regards George

@bpdp379

Жыл бұрын

I’m picturing him looking out his kitchen window with a sly grin, sipping a cup of coffee and thinking, “Tomorrow. I’ll tell him tomorrow….”

Outstanding!

Great job

Learned a lot from this video.

Awesome tutorial thanks!

Great video, I love the Exevador hypnotized me, like a Dinosaur 😲

When you're ready to put the soil back on top, take some photos of the whole run because it'll help find it later if needed. Should you sell the house it will also help the new owners with finding where the run goes.

@josephj6521

5 ай бұрын

… so they can replace it with PVC.

Very helpful video👍

enjoyed your video.

Great information

Thank you so much for your valuable video. Please share where you bought your parts especially defender. Thank you

FDM makes a downspout cleanout thats placed inline and looks way cleaner. Its a vented clean out with hand-hole access and an angled leaf blocker.