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Most drainage problems in Florida, in areas like Orlando, Melbourne, Daytona, Jacksonville, Ocala, Gainesville and the panhandle come from very level or even below grade yards. During a severe thunderstorm, tropical depression or hurricane, rainfall rates exceed the norm. Water has no place to go. So the yard floods, water enters the house, driveways flood, and the backyard stays wet for days.
A French Drain must have a discharge point that s down hill from the lowest point in the yard. So sometimes (most all the time) a Sump Pump is needed. The Pump is installed in a Sump Basin (pit). It can be 24″ inches deep or more. Now the French Drain and other drains can be discharged (run down hill) to the sump basin. Then a good pump can lift the water up and send it to the street or storm.
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Back Yard Sump Pump System.. With French Drain and Catch Baisin
Sump Basin with Sump Pump installed to remove water coming from the French Drain
Back Yard Sump Pump
A good video reference for DIY
Back yard sump pumps are efficient and affordable. a good 1/3 horsepower pump will move 60 to 89 gallons a minute.. (Think of trash can full of water, The pump will empty the trash can in under a minute.) A Good 1/2 horsepower pump will move 80 to 120 gallons per minute! A Good 1 horsepower sump pump can move 120 to 130 gallons per minute!
Of course you can never beat Mother Nature, but you can help keep the water out.
A French drain (perforated pipe surrounded by 3/4 inch gravel) with a couple catch basins, will collect the water from the yard and send it to the sump basin, then the sump pump can lift it up and send out through a 1 1/2 inch or 2 inch PVC pipe to the street or storm.
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How far can it pump?
This is called the HEAD. Most 1/3 horsepower pumps can easily push the water 100 to 150 feet, with a lift of 5 feet. Of course the gallons per minute begin to drop so it might only pump 40 to 50 gallons per minute at 5 foot lift and 100 foot discharge. This is still a trash can full of water every minute! Fast!
Here is another good video reference of a backyard sump pump with French drain. This system moves water fast!
How much does a system cost?
Depending on the length of the french drain, the depth of the French drain and length of the 1 1/2 inch PVC discharge from the pump an average cost to install is just under 2800.00. Yes, its an expense but well worth it to solve the flooding issue and help protect y9our home from water damage, mold, wood root, and termites.
Most homes in Florida are built on a concrete slab, and actually need this system more than homes with crawl space or basements. The concrete slab is very porous. As water pressure builds under the slab, it comes up though the slab at the weakest point (usually at the wall where the 1st course of block has been laid. Once a pathway has been established by the water, it will continue to go there even in lighter rains.
Protect your investment. Install a Sump Pump system with foundation and French drains. Direct the downspout drains away and attach them to the sump basin or if you are lucky enough to have fall (downhill grade away from the house) trench these drain lines to the street.
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A French Drain moves water from low spots in the yard. The system consist of both perforated pipe surrounded by gravel (or EZ Flow Drain Pipe) and Catch basins. The perforated pipe surrounded by gravel, removes SUBSURFACE WATER and the Catch Basins help remove IMMEDIATE WATER RUNOFF from the ground.
perforated pipe surrounded by gravel – French Drain
Once the water has been collected by the system, it needs a place to go. Gravity drains work great, providing you have downhill run away from the area. However, most homes here in Florida need a Sump Pump. We send all the water collected by the French Drain System to the Sump Basin and the Sump Pump, lifts the water up and sends it out to the street or storm drain.
This system with properly installed Pump, can keep up with the most severe rains. Hurricanes and Northeasters!
Sump Basins Holds The Pump and the Pump lifts the water up and send it out to the street
During the dry season, the water table recedes and leaves pathways for water to travel when it rains hard. The Best Time to install a French drain is January through March, Before the rains begin!
Here at Apple Drains, Drainage Contractors, we have been installing French Drain for over 30 years. We install a great Zoeller M98 Sump Pump to remove water fast! This pump can lift 80 to 120 gallons per minute. That’s lie 3 trash cans full of water every minute!
Zoeller M59, 1/2 hp Sump Pump
During the past (2) Hurricanes, both Matthew and Irma, ALL of our installs kept up with the rain! Not may others can make that statement!
Please use our SERVICE SIGN UP SHEET to schedule an estimate today. We do charge for our time. Estimates are not free. There is a 35.00 charge for us to come out and access, inspect and design a system custom for your specific needs. We Do however, apply that 35.00 to the purchase of any new system we install, so you don’t really loose the cost.
Out of area estimates the fee is 277.50. This is a time and travel cost and YES, we do apply that to any new system we install!
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A good French drain is perforated pipe surrounded by gravel. This system is used to collect water from low spots in the yard, under the house, in the crawl space, along the exterior footer of the house, under driveways, and under basement floors.
perforated pipe surrounded by gravel – French Drain
The Gravel and Perforated pipe collect subsurface water. French Drain works best in low spots through the yard or along the footer and foundation of the house.
A good French drain will be at least 20″ inches deep. a base of gravel under the pipe and on top. The holes of the pipe point down into the base of gravel underneath. Watch a video of “How a French drain works“.
French drain is perforated pipe surrounded by gravel at least 20 inch deep for best collection. Apple Drains, Drainage Contractors
Adding catch Basins will make the system work even better. Catch basins collect immediate surface water runoff! In other words, as it rains and water begins to flood, the catch basin will collect the water straight away.
Catch basins collect immediate surface water runoff. French Drain Help
Once the French Drain is installed it will need a place to discharge. The water needs to flow downhill and away from the area, usually to the street or storm drain. A Pop Up Emitter can be used at the end of the line or a curb hole can be drilled for even better discharge.
The discharge pipe from the French drain is solid pipe. Once the water has been collected, we need to keep it and let it flow away from the wet spot.
Solid Pipe Discharge from French Drain, leads to discharge at Curb, Apple Drains
Sometimes a Sump Pump is needed to left the water up from areas that are too low for gravity flow to the street or storm. Sump Pits and Pumps Work Great! In fact, They work even better than gravity!!
Sump Pump Attached to French Drain
A good sump pump will lift and pump 40 to 60 gallons of water per minute! That’s 2 trash cans full of water every minute being removed when it rains. The pump needs to be at least 1/3 horsepower and sits in proper sump basin at least 24 inch deep.
French Drain with Catch basin attached to Sump Pump
The discharge pipe from the pump should be 1 1/2 inch to 2 inch PVC.
So how much does a good system cost?
You can expect to pay from 1700 to 4200 for a good system, It really depends on much pipe and gravel need to be installed.
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Installing a French Drain is a project the homeowner could do themselves. All the parts are readily available from Lowes or Home Depot. Just be prepared to do some work.
Here is everything you need to install a gravel drain (French Drain)
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1st you need the pipe.
These are 100 foot rolls of both Soild and Perforated Pipe. This is from Lowes but Home Depot has the same stuff.
NOTE – Remember you need Perforated Pipe (has holes in it) that will be surrounded by Gravel for a French Drain.
100 foot rolls of perforated pipe at Lowes
2nd will be the gravel –
How Much Gravel Do you Need? A lot!
Best way to figure how many bags is 1 bag will cover about 2′ feet of a trench 14 to 16 inches deep. So if you are installing 60 feet of pipe, you’ll need at least 30 bags.
3rd you will need some way to transport your gravel. While you could put in your car or trunk, better is a truck, or trailer to haul the gravel and pipe and shovels and wheel barrels, etc..
Transporting the gravel for a french drain
4th You need a wheel barrel to move the gravel to the area you are digging. You carry each bag, but each bag weighs 40 lbs. So a wheel barrel allows you to move more than 1 at a timne and is much easier.
Wheel barrels bring the gravel from the trailer to the rear yard where the low spot is
5th – You need shovels, picks, axe, and rake to dig your trench.. Pretty much you will be digging through mud if its a really bad low spot. Water will have saturated the soil. But if you believe you can do something 🙂
Trenched section of yard for French Drain
6 – Once the Trench is complete, including your discharge (this where the water is going to flow), its time to install the Gravel and Pipe.
1st lay a small base of gravel in the trench. Next Install the Perforated Pipe with HOLES POINTING DOWN. Connect your catch basins then cover with gravel. We like to bring ou gravel to grade to really make the water drop into our system, but you cancover the gravel with soil. If doing this, be sure to use a soil seperater fabric. Youdon’t need to wrap the trench in this fabric, it will simply slow the flow of water into the gravel and also the fabric will get packed with dirt and further slow the water infiltration into the gravel. Some people think its best to wrap the gravel and or the pipe, but actually the life of the systemis still the same. 15 to 20 years.
Holes Point Down from Perforated Pipe for the French Drain
Lastly – Lay your all the gravel and pipe, rake out the excess soil to fill other low spots and help water drain into your system. Make sure your Catch Basin Grate is just below grade to allow that water to flow quickly into the catch basin!
Raking out the excess soil from your install of a French Drain
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A French Drain is Perforated Pipe Surrounded By Gravel. It usually has a catch basin to help collect surface water and the gravel perforated pipe collects the subsurface water, water table or ground water.
Catch Basins Collect Surface Water
When your yard floods and the water stands for days, a French drain is usually needed to remove the water.
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Perforated Pipe, surrounded by Gravel collects Subsurface water
As with any drain there must be a discharge point lower than the inlet. In other wards, the water standing in your yard must have a place to go that is Downhill or LOWER than the flooded spot. If that cannot be achieved, a sump pump is needed to left the water up and send it to the street, storm drain or other natural area away from the low spot in the yard.
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This article talks about how and why a french drain works.
You can also watch a video that illustrates how water flows through the gravel and into the perforated pipe.
A French Drain is a perforated pipe surrounded by gravel. It is used to collect water from a low spot in the yard. The pipe is usually 4″ Perforated (holes or slotted) and is encased in 3/4 inch washed stone.
Catch basins can be added to this system to help collect immediate water run off. The pipe needs to discharge downhill from the low spot in the yard. OK.. That’s the basics. Now let’s look at a typical problem we find in a back yard or side yard…
Usually when we get a call to give an estimate we find a couple of things almost always.
Its great that your landscaper wanted to try to help, but since it didn’t work and you have called us out, we know the problem is worse than before they tried to fix it. Our congrats to the landscaper, but if you are going to take on this project, Do It Right the First Time!
To make a French Drain work (yard drain) the trench should be deep enough to allow water to flood from the bottom of the trench up through the gravel into the pipe. The way the system works is:
Discharging the water
This is very important and its kind of a No Brainer. Water needs to run downhill. The discharge must be lower that the deepest part of the trench. To make this happen, there must be a down hill run away from the area. Sometimes we have to trench through a hill to get good slope for our system to work. (this is usually the case since the water is getting trapped in the low spot to begin with.
If there is no downhill run away from the area, in other words, if the pipe is running up to discharge, it will not work. So what can be done?
We suggest and recommend installing a sump pump. The yard drain is the same as described above but it discharges into a sump pit where the sump pump lifts the water up and can push it up hill to discharge. The pump we most commonly use is a ZOELLER M 53 (mighty mate). This pump can easy lift the water to ahead (total lifting capacity) of 25′. Its extremely powerful for a small 1/3 of horse power submersible pump. The pit is 24 inches deep which allows for great water collection and allows the pump to easily cycle the water. We install a solid lid on the pit making secure and safe. The pump discharges water through a 1 1/2 inch PVC pipe. (while this sounds small, it works great and is more than enough for most applications) .
Lastly, there needs to be an electrical outlet installed next to the sump pit. This is because extension cords are not to code for a sump pump. They work, but its better to have a GFI Electrical outlet installed.
Ok! So when you are ready to have a True French Drain Installed, Give us a call. We’ll be happy to take a look and write you up a Estimate. Our estimates have drawing with proposed drainage and ALL associated cost.
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