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Lawn Drainage Charlotte, NC
Some problems can arise immediately, but sometimes the results of improper drainage in Charlotte may not become apparent until years later. Standing water around your foundation can cause serious problems to your home, and water accumulating in your yard can cause significant landscape malnutrition resulting in loss of plants, trees, and grass.
Furthermore, walking, sitting, driving, and playing on the land around your home is enough reason to have proper drainage around your home or business.
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Charlotte Yard and Landscape Drainage Issues
For years our staff has worked closely with many builders, developers, and homeowners resulting in an enormous amount of knowledge and experience in assisting our customers with soggy lawns, erosion issues and undesirable pooling of water, all of which require expert drainage services. Along with our highly trained, qualified staff, we work with state-of-the-art equipment to make sure our solutions are based on accurate measurements.
With the increase in technology, the needs of your property become clear when laser transit levels are used to determine elevation changes of slopes, swales, and other important surfaces. Assessing these elevations allow us to recommend potential water flow solutions that allow your lawn and landscape to drain properly.
Solutions to Drainage Problems
Although improper draining is problematic, the experts at Hyatt Landscaping have a range of solutions for your drainage system, including:
- Proper grading – If surface drainage is possible, grading is often the least expensive and most effective solution for diverting water from an area with poor drainage. Grading requires the least amount of maintenance and limits the potential for excess water pooling in an area during a heavy rain.
- Catch basins – Catch basins are simply a reservoir for collecting surface drainage or runoff. Anytime your source of water is above ground, a catch basin collects surface water pooling in an area, piping it away underground. Basins are used primarily when grading is either not possible or when it would create an undesired/unusable space.
- French drains – Often misused and certainly overused, installing French drains in the landscape are primarily needed to collect water that’s underground, seeping to the surface. Installing a French drain involves digging a trench and placing a perforated pipe to collect and divert excess water. Soggy or marshy yards may indicate the need for a French drain, while yards sloping toward the house can benefit from regrading.
French drains can also be very effective when placed along a foundation or basement waterproofing to allow an escape for excessive moisture under and around the home. French drains consist of perforated pipe and a gravel filled trench to capture the water, which can then be piped away. Very seldom are French drains used to capture surface water, however, if the installation process is done correctly, “open-top” French drains with river rock can sometimes be utilized.
- Sump pumps – Typically seen in basements and crawl spaces in NC, sump pumps are sometimes the only way to remove unwanted water from a location. In basements and crawl spaces, when water drains to a low point, there has to be an even lower point outside if you’re going to be able to pipe the water away. If there’s not, you have to pump it “uphill” to get rid of it.
Occasionally, we run into similar situations within the landscape where there’s nowhere on your property for the water to go. For these situations, installation of a sump pump is the only option.
Choose Hyatt Landscaping to solve your draining needs and protect your home and landscape from unnecessary water damage. Call or contact us online!
Causes of Improper Yard Drains in Charlotte, NC
When it comes to improper draining around your home, there could be several reasons it’s occurring. Such possibilities include:
- Improper grading –One of the most common mistakes NC contractors make is not providing enough change in elevation to allow for surface drainage. Proper grading goes hand-in-hand with drainage solutions. Just because someone says you need a “French drain” doesn’t mean you couldn’t resolve the issue with proper yard grading.
- Settling –Sinkholes and settling create areas that don’t drain off. Settling itself can be a result of poor subsurface compaction, soil type, or buried debris/roots decomposing. This is extremely dangerous if it happens close to your home’s foundation. Sometimes filling in a sinkhole without determining the problem will put you right back where you started.
- Constant water source –An area that has a constant source of water will continue to be an issue even if surface drainage is adequate. Underground springs in NC are more common than most people realize, and when the water table is high, they can be very persistent in your yard, crawl space, and more.
Your air conditioner’s condensation line is another common source of water, especially during the warmer months due to its continuous activity. If your residential property or business has an area where the ground doesn’t dry up after a rain event, you could have a constant source of water causing the problem.
- Inadequate drain system –Some yard drain systems prove to be inadequate over time for many reasons. Sometimes they get stopped up, clogged, crushed, or buried. Improper installation French drains are notorious for excess silt and debris entering the pipe and rocks causing failure.
Other times the size, location or even type of system that was originally installed was not sufficient to handle the need. Our goal is to ensure you feel confident in the system we propose based on our experience and track record designing these drainage services.
- Fixed elevations – When working around structures, driveways, sidewalks, and roads at your residential property or business, there are always limitations for where water can drain.
No matter what the cause of your improper draining is, we can help! Contact Hyatt Landscaping today!
Contact our Team for Drainage Services in Charlotte
As a family-owned landscaping firm serving the Charlotte area for over four decades, we take pride in offering our clients the best. Quality services, dependable workmanship, and reliable solutions that respect our client’s budget—these are a few of the key values that we offer with every service we perform. Whether you need drainage services or you’re looking for a Licensed Landscape Contractor to help you understand what services you need, we’re always happy to help.
Contact Hyatt Landscaping to schedule your initial consultation, we can’t wait to discuss your drainage needs!
Frequently Asked Questions About Proper Drainage
Professional installation of drainage systems can help ensure the project is completed quickly and correctly. Landscape design is a key part of who we are, so we know how to keep your new drainage solution from being an eyesore.
We may choose different options depending on the aesthetics, and if necessary, work up a landscape design that will obscure anything you find unpleasant to the eye. Many times there is damage to your lawn, so new lawn seeding or sod installation could be important.
It’s going to depend on what’s wrong with the existing drains on your property, whether they would be adequate for your goals even if they were in peak condition, and other factors. Did someone install a French drain where a catch basin was needed for your property?
Where repairs are possible and adequate, we’ll certainly choose to repair, but it’s important to understand that if the drainage is or was inappropriate to resolve the problem, there’s only so much that can be done without new installations. Again, expect damage to your grass, so new lawn seeding should be included in any drain system that crosses turf.
Consulting with a professional contractor can provide an accurate estimate for drainage installation costs. Drainage services can vary significantly depending on a number of different factors.
Keep in mind that different drainage projects may involve very significant differences in the labor involved, the materials and machinery used, how quickly it can be completed, whether specialty drainage is necessary, etc. We’ll be sure to communicate costs in advance, but we’ll need to figure out what your drainage project will entail before we can do so.
The installation process for drainage systems can be time-consuming and may require clearing existing arrangements like patios or pathways. We try to minimize the damage to your yard, lawn and property based on what is strictly necessary for your new service.
However, it’s important to know that your lawn will like need time to recover. If necessary, we can reseed your lawn and adjust landscaping for faster, more thorough recovery of your yard.
While it’s not impossible, we take every precaution possible to avoid hitting any utility lines, including communicating with utility companies to confirm the location of lines. As long as accurate records have been kept, everything will be fine and we’ll be in and out without any headaches.
Regardless, our goal is to respect your property and do everything we can to protect your yard during the process.
