Heavy rains can damage property. Scenic Outdoors offers expert drainage solutions like French drains and catch basins to protect your landscape and foundation from water damage.

In many places, including those Scenic Outdoors serves, August frequently brings the year’s most heavy rainfall. Even though summer showers are welcome, prolonged downpours or unexpected, heavy rains can quickly transform a lovely landscape into a soggy mess, causing expensive water damage, soil erosion, and even problems with the foundation of your house or place of business. In order to safeguard your property and preserve the integrity of your outdoor areas during these rainy months, proactive drainage solutions are not merely a luxury—they are a necessary investment.

Complete drainage solutions that are skillfully incorporated into your landscape design are our specialty at Scenic Outdoors. Our objective is to efficiently manage water, safeguarding your investment while improving the aesthetics and usability of your home.

Explore Scenic Outdoors’ comprehensive drainage solutions and secure your property against water damage!

The Unspoken Risks Associated with Poor Drainage

The power of uncontrolled water is often underestimated by property owners. A small puddle could easily turn into a big issue:

• Water accumulating around the foundation of your house can create hydrostatic pressure, which can result in cracks, crawl space or basement leaks, and long-term structural damage.
• Landscape Erosion: If runoff is not controlled, it can erode planting beds, remove valuable topsoil, reveal tree roots, and leave your lawn with unsightly ruts.
• Wet Lawns and Withering Plants: Oversaturated soil deprives plant roots of oxygen, which causes root rot, yellowing grass, and the death of your carefully selected plants.
• Pest Infestation: Standing water gives mosquitoes and other pests the perfect place to breed, endangering human health and making it harder to enjoy the outdoors.
• Property Damage: If external drainage fails, basements, garages, and even ground-level rooms could flood.

Did you know? 

A 1,000-square-foot roof can generate roughly 623 gallons of water from just one inch of rain, demonstrating the enormous volume that must be controlled around your property!

Key Drainage Solutions for Effective Water Management

• French Drains: A highly effective subsurface drainage system. A trench is dug, lined with gravel and a permeable fabric, and a perforated pipe is laid within. This collects excess groundwater and surface runoff, channeling it away from vulnerable areas. Ideal for soggy lawns and preventing basement leaks.
• Catch Basins & Grates: These are strategically placed grates at low points in hardscaped areas (patios, driveways) or lawns that collect large volumes of surface water. The water then flows into an underground pipe system, directing it to a safe discharge point.
• Downspout Extensions & Connectors: Ensuring your gutters and downspouts direct water far away from your foundation is fundamental. We can extend downspouts or connect them to underground drainage systems to carry water safely away.
• Grading & Swales: Proper grading involves shaping the land around your home to ensure it slopes away from the foundation. Swales are shallow, wide, vegetated depressions that gently guide water away from critical areas. These are natural, aesthetic, and highly effective.
• Retaining Walls with Drainage: For sloped properties, retaining walls are essential for preventing erosion. When built correctly, they incorporate drainage systems behind them to relieve hydrostatic pressure and manage water flow.

Integrated Design: Function and Beauty Come Together

The drainage solutions that blend in perfectly with your landscape design are the best. At Scenic Outdoors, we make sure that your property’s aesthetic appeal is improved rather than diminished while it is protected. Catch basins can be placed subtly, French drains can be covered discreetly, and your yard can have visually appealing contours thanks to proper grading. We are aware that good water management should enhance rather than diminish your outdoor living space.

Avoid allowing the intense rains to overwhelm your property. Installing strong drainage solutions now will protect your house and maintain your landscaping.

Contact Scenic Outdoors at (770) 287-4348 for a qualified consultation and to go over the particular drainage requirements for your property.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

How can I determine whether there is a drainage issue with my property? 

Common indicators include standing water in your yard following a rainstorm, water leaks or stains in your crawl space or basement, eroded soil surrounding your planting beds or foundation, wilting or dying plants in low-lying areas, and a rise in mosquito populations following a rainstorm.

Can I do my own drainage solution installation? 

While some extremely basic fixes, like downspout extensions, can be completed by hand, experts are best suited to handle more complicated drainage issues, such as those that call for French drains, regrading, or fixing foundation leaks. For efficiency and to prevent expensive errors, proper water flow assessment, pipe sizing, and precise installation are essential. For dependable results, Scenic Outdoors has the know-how and tools.