Hand excavated french drains are indeed historic.
Since the earliest men and women started inhabiting this planet and learned to construct aqua ducts, their lives have (more…)
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The long history of hand excavated french drains
Monday, January 4th, 2010Ancient hand excavated french drain technology in the 21st Century
Saturday, December 19th, 2009Hand excavated french drains are indeed ancient technology carried forward into the 21st century.
What is a hand excavated french drain? I get this question many times a week in my business. Hand excavated french drains do not need to be hard to understand. (more…)
What is a french drain and how does it work
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008I am asked this question almost every day by someone. What is a french drain and how does it work? A french drain is a hand excavated groundwater removal system that starts with the hand excavation of a gravity flow aquaduct with straight sides and a flat hard bottom. (more…)
The world responds to hand excavated french drains
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008Hello hand excavated french drain readers. It may interest you to know that according to the statistics section of site 5, my website host, the AAA Home Drainage contact list of countries logging in to this site reading my information on home drainage through the first 10 days in Feb.08 are as follows.
The interest in hand excavated french drains and home groundwater removal solutions around the world shows you the extent of the problem world wide.
The countries from top to bottom have the most logged hits. (more…)
Specify hand excavated french drains for home groundwater removal
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008When you want to keep the groundwater from your crawlspace or basement, use hand excavated french drains in your home drainage plan. Hand excavated french drains are the oldest form of home drainage known to man. (more…)
Groundwater drainage is an ongoing movie
Sunday, August 5th, 2007We are living through an epic saga of survival on this planet, predicated on groundwater drainage systems protecting us. We live on a water planet spinning in space. We live upon a massive sphere of rock and dirt, suspended in space, spinning in the middle of a solar system, dotted insignificantly among a galaxy with many other planets, moons, and stars and solar systems. When it rains, it pours, as they say. Often this water saga can dampen your spirits, ruin your possessions, damage your future, cost you money, and wash you away or worse.It is obvious that we are not talking about french drains stopping a wall of wall coming off the ocean. We are talking about seasonal rains that unless collected can place our possessions and ourselves and family in harms way, or send us packing in search of a new place to live.
This is home groundwater drainage: the blog. Now that sounds like a science fiction movie doesn’t it? (more…)
