How to clean out french drains?
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Tina Holmes
We have French drains on our back patio that drain to the front yard but they drain slow making the patio flood.
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You can rent a drain snake from Home Depot or Lowes or a local rental place. To clean the drain, there's a decent YouTube video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wYPbA2tarY
You can run a water hose with a strong spray. You can also run a plumbers snake into the other end to pull a rag to get debris out