All,
I moved into an older home which has a French Drain around the Footor of
the house and is built at the top of a small hill.... It is 17 years old and
I am attempting to find where the French Drain Dumps too but without luck...
Any ideas where I should be looking in the yard.. Should french drains be
dumping out in the yard.. Should the end be visible?

Thanks

These are now known as freedom drains and can easily be converted to hide
weapons of mass construction.

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"Burhans" wrote in message
...
All,
I moved into an older home which has a French Drain around the Footor
of
the house and is built at the top of a small hill.... It is 17 years old
and
I am attempting to find where the French Drain Dumps too but without
luck...
Any ideas where I should be looking in the yard.. Should french drains be
dumping out in the yard.. Should the end be visible?

Thanks

The French drain could be going to daylight, a drywell, or storm
system- if it is old enough, it could even be going to sanitary.
It could be made of concrete tiles, vitreous tile, PVC,
orangeburg, or gravel only.

I cannot think of any way to diagnose an old system.

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DanG (remove the sevens)




"Burhans" wrote in message
...
All,
I moved into an older home which has a French Drain around
the Footor of the house and is built at the top of a small
hill.... It is 17 years old and I am attempting to find where
the French Drain Dumps too but without luck... Any ideas where I
should be looking in the yard.. Should french drains be dumping
out in the yard.. Should the end be visible?

Thanks

The Fench Drain is made of Black Plastic Perforated Pipe.... I can have
looked all around and no luck finding out where it terminates... Is there
any simple way to test? I have heard of Color Dyes to find the location of
the termination... Does this really work?


"Burhans" wrote in message
...
All,
I moved into an older home which has a French Drain around the Footor
of the house and is built at the top of a small hill.... It is 17 years
old and I am attempting to find where the French Drain Dumps too but
without luck... Any ideas where I should be looking in the yard.. Should
french drains be dumping out in the yard.. Should the end be visible?

Thanks

Burhans wrote:
The Fench Drain is made of Black Plastic Perforated Pipe.... I can have
looked all around and no luck finding out where it terminates... Is there
any simple way to test? I have heard of Color Dyes to find the location of
the termination... Does this really work?


"Burhans" wrote in message
...
All,
I moved into an older home which has a French Drain around the Footor
of the house and is built at the top of a small hill.... It is 17 years
old and I am attempting to find where the French Drain Dumps too but
without luck... Any ideas where I should be looking in the yard.. Should
french drains be dumping out in the yard.. Should the end be visible?

Thanks



If you know where it is at any point, you can (tediously) track it by
sticking a screwdriver or other pointy item into the ground every so
often. The end will likely be at the point where you can no longer find
the pipe with your implement. (-;


Joe