Drainage Installation
Water leaves the yard on purpose or it leaves on its own
Catch basins, channel drains, downspout extensions, French drains and NDS storm drainage systems, chosen by where the water is actually coming from.
Chapter 01
Five drainage systems, one decision
Catch basin drainage collects standing water at a low point and pipes it away. Channel drains take a line of water across a hard surface, typically a drive or a patio edge. Downspout extensions move roof water far enough from the foundation to stop it coming back. French drains intercept water moving through the ground rather than over it. NDS storm drainage ties the whole thing into a system sized for a real storm rather than a shower.
They solve genuinely different problems, and the reason a drainage job goes wrong is almost always that the wrong one was installed. A French drain will not fix a downspout dumping against a wall, and an extension will not fix a yard that holds water because it has nowhere to go.
Watered lawn running down to a driveway at dusk
Reading where the water actually goes
Before anything is specified we look at grade, because grade decides everything downstream of it. Where does water arrive from, where does it collect, and where is it physically able to leave to.
That last question is the one that gets skipped. A drain has to discharge somewhere legal, lower, and not into a neighbour's problem. Working that out first is what separates a drainage installation from a hole with a pipe in it.
Chapter 03
Drainage and irrigation are the same ground
We are an irrigation company, and that is an advantage here rather than a coincidence. We already work in the wet part of the yard, we already locate buried lines before digging, and we know where the valve boxes are because in many cases we installed them.
Drainage work also changes how a yard waters. Once water leaves properly, zones that were permanently soggy start behaving, which is often the point at which an irrigation schedule needs revisiting.
What backs the install
Drainage installation carries the same one year installation warranty as the rest of our work, and the same lifetime product warranty when the system stays on ongoing maintenance.
Estimates are free and in person, scheduled within two to three weeks, and we will tell you plainly if what you need is a grading fix rather than a drain.
B & C Irrigation — Fully licensed and insured. Call (256) 286-4108.