Reduce the risk of flooding to your House.
Find the main causes of flooding in at-risk to your yard and basment. A flooded yard or basement can cause serious damage to your property, and cost you, the homeowner, time, money and inconvenience.
A Yard drainage specialist At A Green Future rexommends inspections of your home's exterior to identify steps that will help you minimize the risk of future flooding.
This includes checking:
Eavestroughs and gutters;
Downspouts;
Elbows and extensions;
Splash pads;
Lot grading;
Concrete surfaces next to your foundation for cracks and spaces.
Basements for visible cracks in the exterior foundation.
Following your home inspection to prevent drianage issues. Here you find recommendations and information on how to resolve any drainage problems specific to your home.
The Flood Prevention is meant to address the problems, improve the sanitary and stormwater systems, and equip homeowners with the information and knowledge to make drainage and lot grading improvements.
What You Can Do to Prevent Flooding:
Home flood protection
HOW TO FLOODPROOF YOUR HOME
If you experience drainage problems, begin by ensuring that the source of flooding is not on your property. Take steps to flood proof your home. First, learn how and why flooding occurs.
Downspouts and Roof Drainage?
Most homes are equipped with downspouts which discharge the water collected by eaves troughs directly into the ground. Excess water runs into the front street where it enters the storm sewer. It is very important that this water does not enter the sanitary sewer.
Most homes are equipped with downspouts which discharge the water collected by eaves troughs directly into the ground. Excess water runs into the front street where it enters the storm sewer. It is very important that this water does not enter the sanitary sewer.
If your downspout drains too close to the side of your house, this water can drain into the sanitary sewer through the weeping tile adjacent to your house foundation. Damage can occur if rainwater drains too close to your house on ground that may not be tightly compacted. The excavation for your basement may have been dug a few feet wider on all sides to allow working room during construction of the basement walls. When this extra space was backfilled, the soil may not have been tamped down as tightly as the original soil, making it more likely to settle and trap surface water.
Surface water soaking down to your foundation can create problems: it can damage your foundation; seep through cracks in your basement wall, causing dampness; or overload the sanitary sewer by draining through weeping tiles, causing a sewer backup.
What You Can Do to Prevent Flooding:
Check out the this article Protect Your Home from Flooding to help guide your actions:
Fill in any settlement next to your house.
Redirect storm water away from your house.
Make sure the ground slopes away from your house on all sides.
Always keep your downspout extension in place.
Check to see that your downspout extension drains a good distance away from your house in an area that will not erode.
Be careful that water does not drain into your neighbour’s property.
If your downspout is connected to the weeping tile adjacent to your home, disconnect it immediately.
Maintaining good drainage on your residential property is an important part of the flood prevention equation – and we're here to help!
Contact us at 403-547-6551
and we will sure set up a free consultation regarding your backyard drainage issues or front yard drainge problems.
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