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RMAC
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French Drain

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Hi Everyone,

I am currently digging out and laying my first french drain. I have read to line it with a fabric. Will this be too thick at 125gsm? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/GREEN-125GSM-Extra-Heavy-Duty-Weed-Control-Driveway-Garden-Fabric-Pegs-Option-/121507545174?pt=UK_Home_Garden_Garden_Plants_Fertiliser_CV&var=&hash=item61e468953e

I want to lay something that will last a long time, bet at the same time is correct for a french drain.

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Sorry not got a clue. Hopefully someone will be able to advise you.
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What is a French drain?
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The best fabric to use is landscaping fabric, or what is known in construction as "terrain"
As long as it is reasonable sturdy, and permeable. It's ok.
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Mo wrote:What is a French drain?

They're often decorative ...pipes with gravel covering them to drain away excess water if you have a particularly wet patch of ground. They have put a lot of them in the new subdivisions around here as dry river beds but when it gets very wet they've done a good job of avoiding flooding.
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This isn't my specialist area, but the fabric is there to stop the drain from clogging with silt - the flipside being that the fabric itself can clog, so it's not the thickness so much as the graininess of the fabric that would affect its performance. I think - not certain - that yours would be OK.
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