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Feb 27, 2025
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two days have passed since we last taped
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videos and the reason why is we needed
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the concrete to get nice and hard and I
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also did another really important step
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before we finished the job and I want to
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show you what I did look down
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here so this is where the black top
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patch is going to go so that we blend
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new black top you know into the trench
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drain right here well after I took off
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the form arms from the concrete it was a
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pretty deep hole there I had some extra
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concrete I mixed it up and I placed it
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in here and made it very rough on
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purpose I also made sure that the
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distance that has to be filled in is
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about 1 in maybe a little bit more and
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the reason why is because on the written
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instructions of the black top patch it
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tells you that it really only wants you
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to put it in about 1 in at a time so
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that's going to be be perfect and a 1-in
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covering here because I have the solid
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concrete underneath it is going to be
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more than enough black top patch in the
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next video I'm going to show you how to
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put the black top down it's time to put
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in the black top patch it's really kind
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of fun because we're at the end of the
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project and it's really satisfying to me
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to get to this point because it's going
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to be a job well done and you're going
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to have the same success at your home
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let's talk a little bit about the actual
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black top patching material you can buy
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it ready mix
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and here's what it looks like it'll come
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in tubs like this it can used to come in
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bags and it's really a neat material I
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mean it's very
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flowable you can see it actually kind of
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moves on its own I mean you know it's
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and here's what it is so it's small
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pieces of rock that have been coated
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with asphalt cement the same type of
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asphalt cement for the most part that's
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found in regular black top but they have
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to put it in a water Emulsion so that it
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stays you know pliable inside this
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bucket otherwise if it was like
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traditional black top that's probably
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put down at your home that comes from
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the asphalt plant with just asphalt
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cement the reason it flows out of the
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dump truck and they can pave it and put
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it down is because the asphalt cement is
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hot it's usually about
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375° and that makes it very liquid like
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hot maple syrup so what happens with
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this material is after you put it down
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that water that's surrounding the
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asphalt cement starts to evaporate
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leaves just the asphalt cement behind
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and it starts to get hard now one of the
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differences is and you can see that here
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is that this material is made up of very
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kind of small stones they're really
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really pretty small they're only about
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as big as that stone there but some
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regular black tops have bigger stones in
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it like here's a big one here's a big
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one here's a pretty big one and the
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bigger the stone that's in the asphalt
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the stronger the asphalt is so this is
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going to work really well at the edge of
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the drive driveway here I just would
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never pave an entire driveway using
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material that had small chips like this
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let me show you in the next video
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exactly how you put it in now I want to
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show you how to actually put the black
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top patch material in I use you know
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like a wide putty knife it's really a
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drywall uh you know taping blade you can
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see the the asphalt emulsion cement
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right there and I've even got some on my
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fingers already it'll come off with
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mineral spirits if you get this on your
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clothes it's going to be really tough to
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get off so wear old clothes when you do
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this I just usually scoop some
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out like
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this and you just just dump it in
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there and watch how it flows when I put
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it in watch this you can put it in and
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it'll just kind of flow on its own see
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that how it just moves it's really kind
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of a neat
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material and you want to put it in a
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little
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higher than what you want the finished
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uh surface to be
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because you're going to use a a
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compacting tool or you're going to use
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maybe a block of wood or something to
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hammer it down to get it smooth and to
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compact it in in my case I actually have
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a a real tamper here it's really really
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a nice tool but you can kind of see what
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you do here you try to keep it off keep
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it off of the the
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grate and you just kind of continue to
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put it down you really can't hardly make
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a mistake
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and once again read the written
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instructions do what it
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says you know they don't want you to put
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this in any thicker than 1 inch and if
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you have to fill it in deeper than 1
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inch they want you to do it in half inch
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increments you know puts half in in
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compact it put another half inch compact
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it until you finally get to the
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top so let me put a little bit more in
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here and then I'll show you how to
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compact
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it I I've got some of the black top
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patch material in place I've already
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compacted some of it over here and you
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can see this area right here is not
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compacted this is a tamping tool it's
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made out of solid steel and I've got a
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nice black iron pipe to add some extra
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weight to it and this is a really handy
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tool to use for this type of job I have
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to keep the the tamper you know at the
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same angle I want the black top to be
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but you don't have to apply that much
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pressure and you just Tamp it
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to make it nice and
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smooth and that's really there all
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that's all there is to it it's not that
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hard to do now sometimes it'll stick to
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the bottom of it like that so what you
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want to do is scrape that
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off and if you want
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to you know you you put a little bit of
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filler in here to where it was maybe
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uneven and you can oil the bottom of
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this as well this plate if you put a
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little bit of lightweight motor oil on
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it it'll make sure that uh it won't the
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asphalt cement won't stick to the plate
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watch
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this that's going to come out pretty
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nice it's going to look really good
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we'll tape a final video once we're
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completely finished so you can show you
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the finished trench drain okay the
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trench drain's finished and it came out
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really well I'm really really happy with
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it let me give you a tour of it and I
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want to tell you a few extra little tips
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that we did that uh really are you know
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can save you some time and trouble check
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it out look here so you can see it's
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finished here's the concrete you know
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here's the drain itself we patch the
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black top and over here to my right you
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know and to your left the these are some
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rocks I added where the water's going to
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flow down and it's going to hit these
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rocks they're kind of jagged and
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hopefully the water's going to slow down
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a little bit and then it'll come down
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into the trench drain here any of the
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water coming from that direction any of
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the flow here across the driveway is
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just going to come right down this ramp
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and go into the drain and remember this
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part of the concrete it's sloped down so
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the water is not going to flow up here
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and uh come up to here cuz this here is
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higher by 3/4 of an inch than the metal
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grate finally down here at the end you
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can see the pipe leaving the trench
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drain and I left the pipe exposed so
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that you could see it we're going to
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cover it over with some dirt but the
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pipe when the water comes out of the
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pipe it hits those rocks and the purpose
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of those rocks is to slow down the water
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and slow down the force of it so it
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doesn't cause erosion over there
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because now what we've done is we've
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actually concentrated the water in the
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trench drain and it's actually going to
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have more energy than it did as it came
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into the trench drain because it's more
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water faster so it's very important to
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put those rocks out at the end of the
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pipe that exits your trench drain I hope
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you learned something it was a fun
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project I know yours is going to come
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out just as good as mine I'm Tim Carter
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for askthebuilder.com
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