On Feb 10, 5:15 pm, Oren wrote:
On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 01:25:39 -0800, "SteveB"
wrote:





I'm getting ready to put in French drains in several areas. If I have this
correct, you just dig a ditch to grade away from where you want the water to
drain from. You line the ditch with porous landscaping cloth. Put some
gravel in there. Put a perforated pipe in there. Fill with gravel.

Correct?

Any problems with putting leveling sand on top of that with pavers? Any
need to put those clean out boxes on there?

Looks simple enough, but don't want to make basic mistakes and have to dig
it up. Is the piping necessary? It's cheap, or does the gravel channel do
the same thing? Or does the pipe keep a larger opening?

Steve

For the fabric (CHRISTY'S. (tm). DRAIN-EEZ. (tm). PERFORATED PIPE SLEEVING
SOCK - 3.1 oz. Drain-Eez. (tm). encases drain pipe and prevents small
particle/ soil drain system ... 100' long.

Pics from Hendersen, NV basement recently.

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Oren
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the sleeve sounds great but will clog way faster than a large fabric
filter surrounding a pipe with gravel