If you are living in the greater Pittsburgh area and your basement regularly floods, or your yard is squishy and puddled after the rain is gone, you likely have poor soil drainage. This is causing damage to your home and property, and if it isn’t a headache now, it will be in the future. One often utilized solution by drainage experts, is the installation of a French drain.
A French drain in it’s simplest form is a perforated pipe laid in a trench and covered with gravel. French drains can be installed to redirect surface water from affected areas like your basement, lawn, or from behind a retaining wall to someplace else more manageable and further away from the areas you need to keep dry.
Internal french drains are an option for niche cases, but exterior French drains, when possible, are the best solution to manage excess water because they keep the water outside your house, rather than attempt to control it inside the home. As we all know, water has a mind of it’s own. Your best bet is to keep it as far from your house as possible, rather than invite it in, just to have to push it back out.
Exterior foundation French drains should be installed immediately around your house’s foundation. They can also often be installed behind retaining walls.
Since water flows down hill, if the grade of your yard does not slope away from the house, grading may be necessary. A sump pump may also be needed to pump water from the French drain to a storm sewer, catch basin, or another area where the water does not cause damage.
Are you struggling with groundwater encroachments, creating soggy lawns or jeopardizing your basement’s dryness? Our team specializes in the professional installation of exterior French drains that effectively channel water away from problematic zones. Using precise laser transit technology, we grade the area optimally for improved water flow towards intended areas.
Whether you’re looking to seamlessly integrate the drain into your landscape with soil and grass coverage or prefer a functional exposed stone design to efficiently collect surface runoff, we adapt to meet your preferences without compromising on functionality.
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