Ensure your soakaway stays within building.
Pea shingle french drain.
The pea shingle is the french drain.
Drainage soakaways and pipe laying.
French drain pipe length.
The largest size of 40mm is ideal for land drainage and soakaways while the smallest at 6mm also known as pea shingle can also be used for drainage and pipe bedding.
This versatile range of limestone shingle can be used in varying applications.
A french drain offers a gravity assisted means of keeping the yard free from excess moisture.
A ditch is dug protected piping laid in the ditch and the pipe covered.
Using pea gravel modern french drains have perforated plastic piping as a significant part of the design.
Either stone or pea gravel and sometimes both are used in the constuction of a french drain depending on the design preferences of the builder.
I need to build a french drain to move water away from foundation of a house.
If aggregate of different sizes is used smaller pieces usually go closer to the pipe while larger pieces sit closer to and on the surface.
While several sizes and types of gravel may be used for the drain your best option may depend upon the slope of the yard and whether you use a perforated pipe to help whisk the water away.
I d be thinking more of a 20mm pea gravel for a french drain.
This is covered above and really depends on a project s specific.
As a small aggregate with a large surface area our 10mm shingle is an ideal aggregate for use in with other materials such as fine concrete.
What your other builder is suggesting with the underground pipe sounds like a land drain.
Alternatively you can happily turf over the french drain on top of the weed fabric although you may find that that the grass dries out very quickly in dry weather.
The size of the gravel used can vary from pea gravel to larger pieces of river rock.
The rock that you see in this fr.
From land drainage to a weed suppressant.