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.
Pea shingle french drain.
Ensure your soakaway stays within building.
Drainage soakaways and pipe laying.
From land drainage to a weed suppressant.
This versatile range of limestone shingle can be used in varying applications.
This is a perforated pipe which is laid underground and is designed to catch the ground water and divert it down the pipe which can then be connected into an existing drain.
The rock that you see in this fr.
Finishing the french drain to finish the drain you can top the trench off with fine pea shingle which is quite decorative.
A french drain offers a gravity assisted means of keeping the yard free from excess moisture.
What your other builder is suggesting with the underground pipe sounds like a land drain.
The pea shingle is the french drain.
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.
This is covered above and really depends on a project s specific.
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.
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.
I d be thinking more of a 20mm pea gravel for a french drain.
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.
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.
French drain pipe length.
I need to build a french drain to move water away from foundation of a house.