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French Drain Trench Liner – Pipe Filter

Oklahoma Drainage and Sprinkler Repair – 405 203 9419

A Trench Liner is a semi-permeable fabric that lets water pass through it into the French Drain.

It is placed in the empty French Drain Trench before the French Drainpipe or Gravel are installed.

The Trench Liner’s purpose is to Maintain the integrity and functionality of the French Drain without allowing Debris to enter or clog the Perforated Pipe.

Debris typically is Mulch or Grass Clippings.  It can even be sand or dirt.

Installing a Trench Liner is the Key to ensuring that the French Drain will work correctly for a long time.  I have installed French Drains in 1993 that still work.

The white fabric in the picture above is the Trench Liner.  The black fabric around the pipe is the Pipe Filter.  They work together to make the French Drain last.

Many “Weekend Warriors,” or Landscape Companies that don’t specialize in French Drain Installation, skip installing Trench Liner and Pipe Filter.   It may save a small amount of time or money.

Big mistake!

In a short amount of time the French Drain will clog up and quit working.

What is the point of installing a French Drain if it won’t last very long?

A French Drain is one part of a Drainage System.

Drainage Systems have three parts, an “INTAKE,’ A “TRANSITION,” and an “EXIT.”

A French Drain takes water in through a perforated pipe.  This is the, “Intake,” portion mentioned above.  The French Drain is how the water gets into the Drainage System.

The Perforated Pipe is placed at the bottom of the Drainage Trench.

To Review, A French Drain’s Job is to put water into the Drainage System

French Drain Pictures

Oklahoma Drainage French Drain Pictures

The French Drain takes in water and places it into the Drainpipe.  The Drainpipe is in a Drainage Trench that crosses a large area that has water problems.

The French Drainpipe is connected to a solid drainpipe.  The water moves through the French Drainpipe into the solid Pipe.  The Solid Drainpipe is the TRANSITION.  It takes the water where you want it to go.

 

The black ADS solid drainpipe above is taking water from a French Drain in the back yard to the exit at the street called a “Curb Outlet.”

The EXIT is the place where water leaves the Drainage System and goes on its way.