Drainage Contract

Reduce Your Watering Schedule. Extend Your Downspout. Dig a Creek Bed or Swale. Construct a Rain Garden. Install a French Drain and/or Dry Well.

Trench Drains and Lawn Drainage Besides, the water could flow to your house and cause structural damage. A well-designed perimeter trench drain system works very well in such cases by both draining your lawn and preventing excess water from entering the main structure of your home.

The terms rhyme, they both involve trenches, and French drains aren't really French. The defining difference is very simple, however: Trench drains are surface structures while French drains are subsurface ones. Let's look at how they both work to keep water flowing offsite.

The trench should be about 18 inches deep and 9 to 12 inches wide. French drains need to have a slope of at least 1 percent, so the force of gravity will work for you. This means that the drain should slope down a total of at least one inch for every 10 feet of pipe.

The average cost to repair a broken drain pipe is between $400 and $1,500, with most homeowners paying around $600 for a pipe repairing project.

The average cost to install a trench drain is $30 to $150 per linear foot, depending on the grate and channel material (plastic, metal, or concrete). Trench drains are set into driveways, patios, concrete slabs, or between pavers with a flush grate surface that catches water in a channel.

Nearly every book or web site on container gardening recommends placing coarse material at the bottom of containers for drainage. The materials most often recommended for this practice are sand, gravel, pebbles, and pot shards.

New Drain Pipe Cost Per Linear Foot The price of new drain pipes runs $0.50 to $20 per linear foot. Plumbers usually markup materials by 25% to 50%, totaling a material price range of $0.75 to $30 per foot not including labor.