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I 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…)

Hello 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…)

When 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…)

Confused about the numerous entries on the internet concerning the construction and installation of hand excavated french drains? I feel your pain folks. It is my frustration as well to find so many writing about such a wide range of methods.

I have concentrated on the construction of french drains for many years; specifically “hand excavated french drains“. French drains have been in use around the planet long before a machine was ever invented.
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French drains, “the past meets the future”. Hand excavated french drains start with an old world aquaduct clean of all debris and dirt. So it is with french drains. French drains are timeless. French drains just keep serving our drainage needs century after century. French drains have been around a very long time in the history of man during both ancient and modern civilization. French drains have been around even longer in their basic form, as simple aquaducts. Throughout time, as early man was inhabiting the earth, french drains were used to bring water to the camp from springs high in the hills overlooking the camp. French drains were used to protect the tent city from floods. French drains were used to run bathwater and toilet use products from the camp in the form of sewage removal.

After all, that is primarily what french drains are: aquaducts.

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We 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.