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We're putting in a French drain system here, a yard drain system here. This is going to be handling a lot of water. This retaining wall failed. This is not the first retaining wall. This is the second retaining wall. They keep failing because of how saturated the soils get here in the spring and the fall and it causes the foundation to move, which the whole retaining wall will end up shifting and it's leaning pretty bad on the other end, I'll show you that in a minute.

That neighbor's home, you can see how the roof is. There's so much roof there and there's only one gutter downspout. That's it. So there are just thousands of gallons of water coming down.

Now this driveway slopes and everything's meant to drain in the back. So, I went ahead and I measured the drive and a good guesstimate on the roof and just a moderate rain event are thousands and thousands of gallons. It's just insane.

So we're putting in two pipes here. I think the water is going to come in so fast that we're going to have to have two pipes so that we have like a reservoir situation

We are putting in the really big aggregate, like an inch and a half aggregate. Scott made a good point. He says, man, it's like Groundhog's Day. I mean we just keep digging up garbage systems. There it is another one, that's a Haviland Drainage, it's garbage,  And never use a pipe with a sleeve sock on it.

You never want to run wrap your pipe and stick it in the ground and then pour a little bit of pea stone on it. That's what that drain had. It didn't work.

So you know these retaining walls, they're thousands and thousands of dollars. So this is the second one and it's all blown out and all leaning. A lot of times the camera can't really capture it. It's leaning and it's failing. [...]

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Romeo, MI 48065
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