(BPT) - Whether it’s the result of melting snow or a heavy rainstorm, standing water in the backyard ... French drains are comprised of a trench filled with gravel and perforated pipe that ...

“I want to say it was like a water slide,” Fort Myers Battalion Chief Chris Bevan said. Fort Myers, Fla., workers installed metal bars over the mouth of a drain pipe after the 5-year-old boy ...

Often on my jobs, I’d install a hidden linear French drain ... water to flow rapidly down and into the perforated pipe. Once in the pipe, the water quickly goes around your home and exits in you ...

His bid does not call for perforated pipe or fabric. He said the water ... drain needs to be deep enough to protect the lowest part of the house, so would a 4-feet-deep French drain in the ...

Most drain systems use rigid pipes fairly large in diameter. You can't flex them enough to slide on that last fitting ... Now you don't have to worry about leaks or water damage.