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LADNAR · 11-13-08, 08:00

My shop has what is called a French drain. 2 55 gallon barrells on top of each other with a stell lid on top with holes cut or drilled into it to act as a drain. No it DOESNT work very well as the ground is saturated and the barrels have filled up with fine sidiment which has made a seal to the surrounding ground around the hole and below it. Its probably been there 40+ years. I just push the rest of the water out the garage door, it runs to the city storm drain through the Dairy Queens parking lot. No worse the rain water running there all the time that drains from 10 houses.

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LADNAR Registered User LADNAR is offline Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 53	Re: Installing drain in garage? My shop has what is called a French drain. 2 55 gallon barrells on top of each other with a stell lid on top with holes cut or drilled into it to act as a drain. No it DOESNT work very well as the ground is saturated and the barrels have filled up with fine sidiment which has made a seal to the surrounding ground around the hole and below it. Its probably been there 40+ years. I just push the rest of the water out the garage door, it runs to the city storm drain through the Dairy Queens parking lot. No worse the rain water running there all the time that drains from 10 houses.