Jensen Sprinkler

What is underground drainage?

Underground drainage systems are simply a combination of buried pipes that move the water from your existing  downspout(s) out to daylight in your yard – away from your home.

Draining rainwater underground reduces surface run-off, eliminates unsightly downspout extenders and reduces the chance of excessive rainwater ending up in your basement.

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What does drainage have to do with sprinklers? 

We get called out at least a couple times a season to assess reasons why a homeowner is getting water in his/her basement. Why call your sprinkler guy? Because people with irrigation systems assume that the problem lies in the sprinkler because it has live water lines outside. More often than not that is not the case, but we have garnered a whole lot of knowledge over the years checking into it for people. 

The most common reason people get water in the basement is due to clogged gutters. Truly. During hard rains a clogged gutter will overflow and dump all that water right next to the foundation.  The lesson here? Keep your gutters clean! 

The second thing we see is trapped downspout drains. With the boom in the popularity of concrete curbing and landscape edging, we have seen more people with water issues. Why? Often the above ground downspout disperses rainwater inside a concrete edged plant bed. In big rains the water backs up behind the concrete curbing, down the foundation walls and into your basement. 

There are also grade issues, foundation cracks and myriad of other reasons you may be getting water in your house that our outside of our realm of correction and if it is, we can't point you in the right direction.

If water is causing you headaches give us a call and set up a time to meet with Galen. He can assess your yard to see if your water issue can be corrected with drainage or if you need to make some other structural or landscape changes. 

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