Oklahoma City Channel Drain Installation, Oklahoma City French Drain
Driveway Drain, Channel Drain, Sidewalk Drain Installation, Oklahoma City, Edmond, Norman, Moore
Standing Water on a Driveway or Sidewalk can be a real pain. Stepping out of your car into standing water is no fun. Many times, a channel drain can solve this kind of problem.
Channel Drains are usually set in concrete. Many times standing water requires that a new drain be set in concrete. This requires that the concrete be cut and removed and a drain installed in its place with new concrete around the edges.
Obliviously Skill, Expertise, and Experience is required to make a big cut across a driveway or sidewalk.
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If a channel drain is installed correctly, it is very strong. A car can be driven over it.
Channel drains are of two kinds, Metal or Composite.
Metal Channel drains can be Crome, Cast Iron, or Stainless Steel.
A Composite Channel Drain is made up of very tough plastic combinations.
Composite Channel Drains seem to be the most durable and easiest to service.
Oklahoma City Channel Drain
Channel Drain Installation is a primary focus for Oklahoma Drainage and Sprinkler Repair. We have been installing Channel Drains as part of Drainage Systems since 1993. We also install Surface Drains, French Drains, and Sump Pumps to fit our customer’s needs.
NDS Grey Channel Drain Running Across Driveway
in Edmond
Channel Drain Installation Is a Central Focus for Oklahoma Drainage. We have been Installing Channel Drains set in Concrete since 1993.
Channel Drains can look great and be very functional and durable.
However, A Channel Drain is not an easy thing to install! It takes a great deal of precision, Experience, and Attention to Detail. This is Definitely Not something to allow your Landscape Company to attempt, or your Brother-In-Law!
Just because someone is skilled at pushing a mower around, doesn’t mean you should let them cut across your driveway with a concrete saw.
I get a lot of business fixing and replacing Drains of all types that were installed incorrectly by landscape companies and armatures. Typically, they stick to messing up French Drains, but I have fixed Channel Drains that were an absolute “Train Wreck!” as well.
Oklahoma Drainage 405 203 9419
A Drainage System is made up of three parts. An Intake, a transition, and Exit.
An intake is a Drain or a group of Drains that brings water into the Drainage System. It can be a French Drain, Surface Drains, Channel Drain, or Sump Pump.
A Drainage System can have one intake or several. If more than one, it can be any combination of French Drains, Surface Drains, Etc.
For Example: You might have a Surface Drain set in your sidewalk and a Channel Drain next to your driveway and a French Drain in your yard. They all connect to each other through drainpipe and feed water into the Drainage System.
The Transition
The Transition is the Drainpipe that takes the water to the exit point. It can be a large pipe or small depending on how much water needs to be moved and how fast it needs to drain. More than one Drainage Exit Point. This increases the amount of water that the Drainage System can move.
Back-Flow-Valve Service, Sprinkler Repair
Oklahoma Drainage and Sprinkler Repair Provides Service for Back-Flow-Valves and all types of Lawn Sprinkler Repair and Service. We have provided Expert Service for all of Central and Western Oklahoma Since 1993.
Back-Flow-Valves
There are two types of Back-Flow-Valves.
Above Ground
Above Ground Back-Flow-Valve.
Below Ground Back-Flow-Valve.
Below Ground Back-Flow-Valve
What is a Back-Flow-Valve?
A Back-Flow-Valve is a part of a Lawn Sprinkler System. Water passes through it from the water source which can be a Water Meter or a Well Pump. It forces water to travel in only one direction from the source to the sprinkler system. It can’t travel backward back to the water source which again is a water meter or well pump.
A Back-Flow-Valve provides protection to the water source from back pressure and chemical contamination from lawn fertilizer.
Most Cities require a Back-Flow-Valve as “Code” for Sprinkler Installation.
Emergency Shut off
Back-Flow-Valves usually have an Emergency Shutoff valve on them that can shut off the water to the lawn sprinkler system but keep the water turned on to the home. Most Back-Flow-Valves have two Emergency Shut off Handles. Either one will work. Many times, they are hard to turn, however.
If there is a leak or water is shooting up in the air just turn the valve handle and give us a call.
Norman Sprinkler Checkup is a Central Focus for Oklahoma Drainage. We Performed or first Sprinkler Repair in Norman in 1993. It was in Brookhaven on the West side of Norman.
Recently we had a customer in Oklahoma City who wanted to move his Sprinkler Valves. They were in a bad place in his flower bed. He wanted to plant a tree where the valves were located.
We moved 4 Sprinkler Valves about feet out into the yard. All the Sprinkler Pipes had to be redesigned and installed matching the new location and maintaining full functionality.
What Is a Sprinkler Valve?
Think of a Sprinkler Valve as an “Off or on” Switch. The Sprinkler Controller turns the valves on or off.
It Sends a signal through a wire which is underground to the sprinkler valve somewhere in your yard.
Once turned on, the valve lets water pass through a sprinkler pipe to a specific group of sprinkler heads called a Sprinkler Zone. The controller allows water to reach the sprinkler heads for a certain amount of time running through the sprinkler valve. Once the time is up, it shuts off the sprinkler valve and moves on to the next valve in sequence.
Think of it as walking into every room in your house one at a time. As you enter you turn on the light. As you leave you turn off the light and move to the next room. You are the controller. The light switch represents the sprinkler valve.
Rainbird Sprinkler Valve
The Sprinkler Valve in the picture above was taken out of the ground after the pipe froze and broke on the right side. You can see the crack in the PVC pipe. Of course, I had to clean all the mud off the valve before I took the picture.
What causes a Sprinkler Valve to stop working?
Like anything else, a sprinkler valve can wear out. Sprinkler valves fail in closed position. It won’t run continuously if it breaks.
Sprinkler Valves get stuck while running sometimes. The water supply must be then turned off to stop the Sprinkler from running.
Sprinkler Valves can freeze and break in the winter if the sprinkler system has not been properly drained for winter’s cold.
(winterized)
Tree roots can twist or break sprinkler pipes running into sprinkler valves. Magnolia Trees are really bad about this. Oak trees can cause damage too.
Driving something heavy across your yard can crush sprinkler valves. Usually riding lawnmowers don’t cause damage but any truck or car will if you drive over a valve.
Sprinkler Repair Service Provided by Oklahoma Drainage and Sprinkler Repair
Since 1993 we have Replaced Sprinkler Valves that were sticking or were wore out.
Thousands of Sprinkler Heads have been adjusted.
Countless Sprinkler Controllers have been Reprogramed or Replaced.
We also have fixed a broken Sprinkler Pipe or Two. Seems like a million. Ok, not that many.
I wonder how many? A lot!!!!
Oklahoma Drainage and Sprinkler Repair provides Service for all of Central Oklahoma Including: Oklahoma City, Norman, Edmond, Moore, Yukon and Mustang.
Emergency Sprinkler Repair
Sometimes things go wrong with sprinkler systems.
IF YOU NEED HELP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT OR ON A WEEKEND WITH YOUR SPRINKLER SYSTEM, GIVE US A CALL.
OKLAHOMA DRAINAGE AND SPRINKLER REPAIR. 405 203 9419
IT MAY TAKE A FEW HOURS FOR US TO GET THERE BUT WE WILL COME TO HELP.
One Common problem is that they continue to run and won’t shut off. In most cases this is a problem with a sprinkler valve that has “Stuck” in the on position.
This can be temporarily solved by shutting of the Emergency Shutoff Valve. The problem is that some sprinkler systems don’t have one to turn off or if they do the homeowner doesn’t know where it is.
It may be on the back-flow valve which may be located on the side of the house under a big plastic fake rock.
Many sprinkler systems in Oklahoma have them. (50 % ?) Under the plastic rock is a back-flow valve with two shut off handles. Usually, they have blue or green or tan handles. Turn one of the handles and it should shut off the water to your sprinkler system.
Other times the Emergency Shutoff Valve is in a box in the ground out by the curb near your water meter. The valve box will have a green lid. Sometimes they are difficult to open. Many times, I had to pry them open with a flat head screwdriver.
