Yard Drainage
Do you have water pooling up in your yard? If so, you may want to install an effective drainage system. A properly designed and installed drainage system moves water away from the foundation preventing water damage. Furthermore, a proper system, including gutters with the correct type of extensions will often eliminate water seepage into a basement or crawl space.
What Is a French Drain?
Since it uses gravity to help carry the water away, it’s necessary to install it on a downward slope of at least ¼ inch per foot. Our team of professionals have the equipment and knowledge to ensure that it slopes properly.
If you have questions about yard drainage give us a call.
Hire A Contractor or Do-it-Yourself
A project like this is pretty simple to plan, however, it requires a lot of manual effort. Experience really matters in producing a result that is going to work. Often, the do-it-yourselfer encounters problems along the way, for example; tree roots, driveways, sidewalks, large rocks or underground utilities. Installing this yourself can not only be more time consuming, but cost more than hiring a professional. Quite often, we’ve had customers work for weeks on this only to call us and have the problem fixed in just a day with our experienced crews.
Steps We Take and the Materials We Use
- Materials used include the tile pipe, rock, sand, shovels, rakes, backhoe, trenchers and strong backs.
- Starting from where the water enters and ending where the water flows out, we dig a ditch that is about 10 inches deep x 6 inches wide.
- We lay about 2-4 inches of rock into the trench before placing the pipe lengthwise into the ditch.
- Cover the pipe with another layer of rocks, again about 2 inches.
- Fill in the remaining space with soil and then plant some grass seed or sod, as per the job specs.