Why Do Many French Drains Fail?

Why Do Many French Drains Fail?

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Why Do Many French Drains Fail?

[RayReed-mh]

I like the idea that you showed one time where you had the pop up near the curb and then had a 2 inch pipe drilled through the curb to allow the water to fully drain out of the French drain but when you had a rain storm it would come out of the pop up. I think that i may go that way when i do put in the French drain and down spout on the house.

[jasonroberts]

1. No one is asking anything to “define” gravity as you say.

2. If the exit point is lower than the entry point (which it is here because we can see the slope of the hill) then the water will flow out of the pop out just fine . In fact you can send water up a 90 degree turn to vertical and still get flow as long as the top of that 90 is below the entry of the pipe at the top of the hill.

I run water from a rain roof, down a slope to a container tank and the pipe runs along the ground until it gets to the container (which is 4.5ft tall) and 90s up to the top of the container and spills into the hole at the top.

[ledebuhr]

Why did you use socked tile? Is the non-woven geotextile not good enough?