A French drain system prevents structural damage, enhances lawn health, and eliminates waterlogged areas in your yard.

If you're dealing with drainage issues on your property, installing a French drain might be the aesthetically pleasing ...

A perforated drain pipe should have been placed alongside or on top of the footing that supports your concrete block walls. This pipe should have extended around the back and along the two sides ...

Install the filter sleeve on the perforated pipe, if it didn’t come pre-installed. Then lay the drain pipe in the bottom of the lined trench. Backfill the remainder with clean drainage gravel.

The drain itself consists of a trench with a perforated drain pipe in the bottom, backfilled with coarse gravel. Alternatively, a lightweight, prefabricated French drain pipe can be used, which ...

Sump Drain. A sump drain is a perforated pipe system that collects excess water and funnels it to a sump pit, where it’s then mechanically pumped out and safely away from the home’s foundation.

Many builders and laborers put the perforated drain pipe upside down with the hole pointing up. This allows gravel to block the holes, which prevents water from entering the conduit.

I’d put a perforated drain pipe in this trench and fill the trench with washed gravel about the size of walnuts or pecans. You don’t want any sand in this gravel.