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French Drain Installation, Drainage Systems, Surface Drain, Channel Drain, Sump pumps, – Oklahoma Drainage and Sprinkler Repair

Hard rain and flooding seem to be more common all the time.  When I started this business in 1993, having over an inch of rainfall in an hour was pretty extreme.  Now having over 4 inch an hour rainfall is not unheard of and is becoming more common.

Protecting our homes and businesses from unwanted water should be a goal for all of us.

Oklahoma Drainage and Sprinkler Repair has seen and dealt with virtually every possible Drainage and Standing water problem that can occur in or around your home.  With over 2000 Drainage Systems installed since 1993, we have amassed a great deal of experience.  This is help full in seeing underlying problems and secondary issues that may be hard to see at first for the ” Untrained Eye.”  This allows us to get things right the first time.  In this business EXPERIENCE TRULY COUNTS!

Hiring your brother-in-law to put in your Drainage System or French Drain is as bad as hiring a Lawn mowing company that does landscaping and drains too?  Water can cause a huge amount of damage.  How important is your money and your home?

French Drain With River Rock

French Drain with River Rock

Oklahoma Drainage Installs Drainage Systems,

Our Drainage Systems utilize French Drains, Surface Drains, Channel Drains, and Sump Pumps.

New French Drain After a flood

New French Drain a Few minutes after a flood

 

 

French Drain Pipe running to curb outlet in Oklahoma City.

French Drainpipe running to curb outlet in Oklahoma City.

Oklahoma Drainage Services all of Central Oklahoma

including Norman, Moore, Edmond, Yukon, Mustang, Oklahoma City, Midwest City, Del City, Blanchard, Newcastle, Purcell and Chickasha.

Finally, we are getting some rain after surviving the hottest summer on record.

As bad as we need the rain, standing water can cause property damage ranging from foundation problems to cracked sidewalks to dead plants and shrubs.  If you have need of a Drainage System, give us a call.

We provide free estimates for all of central Oklahoma.

Some Drainage Systems are complex and incorporate several types of drains.  Most Drainage Systems however are basic and require just one type of Drain.

Oklahoma Drainage installs a variety of drains to solve a variety of problems.

 

French Drains, Surface Drains, and Channel Drains are most commonly used.  If you live in Edmond and need a Channel Drain installed across your driveway, or if you live in Norman and need a French Drain in your backyard, or if you live in Oklahoma City and need a Surface drain installed next to your sidewalk, give us a call.    405-203 9419

A good place for a French Drain

Standing water comes from many sources.  It causes damage to sidewalks, driveways, and foundations not to mention plants, trees, and grass.  Does the side of your house flood because your neighbor doesn’t have gutters, or does your sidewalk turn into a moat after a heavy rain, or worst of all, does water seep into your foundation and duct work after a thunderstorm.

 

These are just a few of the Drainage Problems that we can help with.

Oklahoma Drainage and Sprinkler Repair can design a Drainage System to fit your specific needs.

We install many types of Drains to solve many types of problems.

Utilizing : French Drains, Surface Drains, Channel Drains, Basement Drains, Trench Drains, Basin Drains, and Sump Pumps.  We also provide Expert Sprinkler Repair.

405 203 9419

 

Oklahoma Drainage had a customer in Lawton with water in their floor vents.  Every time the heater would run, it would spit water out of the vents.  Water was seeping through the foundation and into the ducts.  Cold water and warm air can cause mold to develop.  After a good duct cleaning company got all the water out, we went to work.  We installed a 6 inch French Drain three feet from of the foundation across the entire width of the house.  It intercepted all the surface water running down the hill.  More importantly it caught and stopped all the sub surface water traveling underground through the sandy soil.  The floor ducts stayed dry!

Oklahoma Drainage also installs a variety of other types of Drains.  Our Drainage Systems may utilize: French Drains, Surface Drains, Channel Drains, Trench Drains, Basin Drains, and Sump Pumps.  In the past 26 years, we have installed French Drains to keep water away from home and business foundations, Surface Drains to keep water away from sidewalks and driveways,  Trench Drains, and French Drains to keep standing water out of flowerbeds and yards, and Sump Pumps to remove water from basements and outdoor low lying areas.

French Drain with stepping stones

French Drain with steppingstones

 

French Drains can be installed by themselves, or as part of a Drainage System that uses other French Drains, Surface Drains, or other Drain combinations.  Typically, a French Drain is used to protect a broad area that has a lot of standing water.  A French Drain might run alongside a home’s foundation, or beside a driveway, or on any Drainage Project where Sub-Surface water is the primary problem.  If water is running toward your home underground (through sandy soil), A French Drain is the only Solution for draining away water flowing underground.

 

If you live in Oklahoma City and need a French Drain installed in your yard, or along your driveway, or near your foundation, give CMG a call.  If you live in Edmond or Norman and need a Surface Drain installed in the concrete in your sidewalk or driveway, we can help.  If you live in Mustang or Yukon and would like to protect your trees or flower beds from standing water with a French Drain, We specialize in just that!

 

 

For most of us our home or business is our most important investment.  Standing Water can cause damage to what is important to us.  High Water from Storm-Water Runoff deteriorates concrete and cement.  This means that our driveways, sidewalks, and foundations need protection from prolonged exposure to Standing Water.  (Not to mention damage to plants, trees, and grass) WE have have been solving Drainage Problems since 1993.  If you live in Central Oklahoma we can quickly provide a free estimate.

French Drain Installation

Hey, Oklahoma!  We are expanding our service area to include Lawton , Duncan, and Altus.  If you live in Lawton and need French Drain installation, or if you live in Duncan and need a surface drain installed in your driveway, give us a call.

Trench for drain

French Drain Trench running under Sidewalk

Oklahoma Drainage and Sprinkler Repair has been diagnosing and solving Drainage Problems since 1993.  Water has the ability to get into places around your home where you really don’t want it to be.  Some drainage problems are easy to solve.  Typically water enters the problem drainage area one way from one source.  The really tricky drainage problems occur when water enters the problem drainage area from multiple directions and from multiple sources.  Sometimes a secondary water source can’t be seen or identified until the primary water problem source is eliminated.

An example of this occurs when water is running into a problem area in an obvious way over the ground where you can see it.

Simple enough.

A drainage system is installed with a surface drain as the “intake” with drainage pipe running to an exit point.  Initially the water drains away and everything looks great.  The next day water is back and is all around the surface drain, but below the edge and it hasn’t rained at all, so no additional water ran over the surface of the ground to flood the area.  The primary water source was solved, ( The surface water run off ) but the secondary water source was not.  Which was sub-surface water, (ground water) running into the area.  A surface drain can’t drain “ground water.”  A French Drain should have initially been installed instead of a Surface Drain.  A French Drain can drain both Surface Water and Ground Water.

 

french drain river roc

A French Drain Can Handle Standing Water

 

Oklahoma Drainage and Sprinkler Repair Services all of Central Oklahoma including: Norman, Moore, Edmond, Yukon, Mustang, Oklahoma City, Midwest City, Del City, Blanchard, Newcastle, Purcell and Chickasha.

 

 

 

 

Channel drain driveway

Keep water off your driveway with a channel drain

 Standing water comes from many sources.  It causes damage to  sidewalks, driveways, and foundations not to mention plants, trees, and  grass.  Does the side of your house flood because your neighbor doesn’t  have gutters, or does your sidewalk turn into a moat after a heavy rain,  or worst of all, is water seeping into your foundation and duct work  after a thunderstorm?  Theses are just a few of the Drainage  Problems that Oklahoma Drainage and Sprinkler Repair can help with.  We can design a Drainage  System to fit your specific needs.  We install many types  of Drains  to solve many types of problems.    French  Drains, Surface  Drains, Channel  Drains, Basement  Drains, Trench Drains, Basin Drains, and Sump  Pumps are utilized.

 

 

4 Inch Drain Pipe Ready to be covered with dirt in Norman.
4 Inch Drain Pipe Ready to be covered with dirt in Norman.

Oklahoma Drainage –  We install French Drains, Channel Drains, Surface Drains, Sump Pumps and Sod.

If You live in Oklahoma City and water damaging your foundation, We can install a French Drain for you.

If you live in Norman and have water standing on your driveway, We can install a Channel Drain for you.

If you live in Edmond and have water flooding your basement, We can install a Sump Pump for you.

If you live in Moore and have water washing out your flower bed mulch, We can install a Surface Drain for you.

If you live in Yukon and need grass to grow we can install Sod too!

Servicing all of Central and Western Oklahoma since 1993.

 

Hard rain and flooding seem to be more common all the time.  When I started this business in 1993, having over an inch of rainfall in an hour was pretty extreme.  Now having over 4 inch an hour rainfall is not unheard of and is becoming more common.

Protecting our homes and businesses from unwanted water should be a goal for all of us.

Oklahoma Drainage has seen and dealt with virtually every possible Drainage and Standing water problem that can occur in or around your home.  With over 2700 Drainage Systems installed since 1993, we have amassed a great deal of experience.  This is helpful in seeing underlying problems.  We look for Secondary Water Issues not just the Primary ones.   In this business EXPERIENCE TRULY COUNTS!

Hiring your brother- in- law or a Landscape Company to put in your Drainage System is a bad idea.  If a landscape company also installs French Drains, you should run!

Why don’t they specialize???  Does your Lawyer also do physical therapy?

Some Builders also make bad choices concerning drainage on new homes they are building.  New houses should not have problems with water.   Builders usually have a landscape company that installs their drains.  Sometimes it’s a maintenance guy that works for the builder.  It’s Usually the cheapest fix possible.  I’ve testified in more than one class action lawsuit where a whole housing sub-division had unnecessary Drainage Issues.

Water can cause a huge amount of damage.  How important is your money and your home?  Over 30% of the work done by Oklahoma Drainage is fixing other people’s mistakes.   I appreciate the work, but I get frustrated when bad things happen to good people concerning water!

Blane Callen, 405 203 9419

 

Is this your yard?

French Drain Installation has been an area of focus for Oklahoma Drainage   for the past 30 years.  During that time we have installed over 2000 French Drains in Central and Western Oklahoma

A French Drain is one of several types of Drains that can make – up a Drainage System.   French Drains are intended to move large amounts of water away from a Problem Drainage Area.  Water may be standing in that area, flowing across the area on the surface, or flowing across the area below ground or “Sub Surface.”  A French Drain can remove Standing Water, Water Flow at ground level, or water flow below ground level. (Surface Drains can’t do this!)

A French Drain many is used to move water away from or protect foundations.  A French Drain will move both Surface Water and Sub Surface water away from a buildings foundation to an Exit Point where the water can be released without doing damage.

 

 

Cutting The Curb and Installing Curb Fitting for French Drain

Cutting The Curb and Installing Curb Fitting for French Drain

This is a great place for a French Drain

Installing French Drain under sidewalk

Installing French Drain under sidewalk

French Drain Installation this week was a little more difficult than normal.  Many times the route that a Perforated French Drainpipe must travel to its exit point is not very easy from an installation point of view.  French Drains may have to travel through tree roots, (big ones) under sidewalks, through retaining walls, around swing sets or dog kennels or Mom’s Prize Rose Bush.

The 4 inch French Drain we installed this week was in Oklahoma City south of 23rd in an old part of town where all the houses were old 2 or 3 story homes with lots of huge Elm Trees.  The Elm Tree in Question actually was just an old stump that had been topped out but not completely removed.  They left the roots just for us!  The roots were growing into the homes foundation and were right in the way of the path of the French Drain.  Forty feet of solid Elm Roots and 4 chain-saw blades later We were successful in running a new French Drain through a tree stump.  Yuck! “Well you gotta  do what you gotta do!”

 

 

French Drain with colored river rock

French Drain with colored river rock

A little info about French Drainpipe and Tree Roots.  Normally tree roots don’t seek out and penetrate French Drainpipe.  Tree roots seek moisture and residual water that may stay inside Solid Drainpipe.  French Drainpipe is perforated.  Water that does not reach the exit point of the French Drain will seep out of the Pipe into the surrounding dirt.  Solid Drainpipe that is used with Surface Drains can be penetrated and eventually clogged by roots if the pipe does not have good slope or “Fall”.  If the solid pipe does not drain well and has residual water, tree roots will seek it out.

Oklahoma Drainage and Sprinkler Repair provide Expert Service for Sprinkler Heads, Valves, Controllers and all other Sprinkler System difficulties.  We service Norman, Edmond, Oklahoma City, Moore, Yukon, Mustang, and Midwest City.

Sometimes things go wrong with sprinkler systems.

 

 

Today we are installing a French Drain system for a customer in East Norman.  She has water running into her front door through her flower bed.  The bed acts like a pond and over-spills onto her front porch and then through her front door.  To solve the problem, we are installing a French Drain running across her flower bed and under her sidewalk.  Once under the sidewalk the French Drain will connect to Solid Drain Pipe and continue on down the hill to the exit point where we will install a pop-up emitter.  There are two gutter downspouts that will be connected into the French Drain System along the way.

French Drain with colored river rock along foundation

French Drain in flower bed

 

 Do you have water standing in the wrong place after a hard rain?  Does your sidewalk turn into a moat after a storm? Or does your back yard flood from run-off from your neighbor’s roof? If so, give Oklahoma Drainage a call. WE can quickly diagnose your Drainage Problems and provide a solution.  With over 20 years experience, we can handle all your residential or commercial drain issues.

Installing Drain Pipe from French Drain in Back Yard

Installing Drain Pipe from French Drain in Back Yard

 

 

Oklahoma Drainage –  We install French Drains, Channel Drains, Surface Drains, Sump Pumps and Sod.

If You live in Oklahoma City and water damaging your foundation, We can install a French Drain for you.

If you live in Norman and have water standing on your driveway, We can install a Channel Drain for you.

If you live in Edmond and have water flooding your basement, We can install a Sump Pump for you.

If you live in Moore and have water washing out your flower bed mulch, We can install a Surface Drain for you.

If you live in Yukon and need grass to grow we can install Sod too!

 

French Drain Installation has been an area of focus for Oklahoma Drainage   for the past 30 years.  During that time we have installed over 2000 French Drains in Central and Western Oklahoma A French Drain is one of several types of Drains that can make – up a Drainage System.   French Drains are intended to move large amounts of water away from a Problem Drainage Area.  Water may be standing in that area, flowing across the area on the surface, or flowing across the area below ground or “Sub Surface.”  A French Drain can remove Standing Water, Water Flow at ground level, or water flow below ground level. (Surface Drains can’t do this!)

A French Drain many is  used to move water away from or protect foundations.  A French Drain will move both Surface Water and Sub Surface water away from a buildings foundation to an Exit Point where the water can be released without doing damage.

 

Cutting The Curb and Installing Curb Fitting for French Drain

Cutting The Curb and Installing Curb Fitting for French Drain

Oklahoma Drainage  Installs French Drains, Channel Drains, Surface Drains, Sump Pumps and Sod.   Our Drainage Systems utilize French Drains, Surface Drains, Channel Drains, and Sump Pumps. .  With over 30 years of experience, we service all of Central and Western Oklahoma.

 

French Drain Pipe running to curb outlet in Oklahoma City.

French Drainpipe running to curb outlet in Oklahoma City.

 

 

 

Oklahoma Drainage Services all of Central Oklahoma including: Norman, Moore, Edmond, Yukon, Mustang, Oklahoma City, Midwest City, Del City, Blanchard, Newcastle, Purcell and Chickasha.

 

 

WE install Drainage Systems for homes and small businesses.  Our Drainage Systems utilize many types of drains including:  French Drains, Surface Drains, Channel Drains, Trench Drains, Basin Drains, Basement Drains, and Sump Pumps.  We can diagnose your drainage problems and provide a free estimate.  Our  Drainage Systems can be complex containing several types of drains, or very simple and straight forward using just one type of drain.

Channel Drain Installation in sidewalk in Oklahoma City
Channel Drain Installation in sidewalk in Oklahoma City

Water Drainage is very important to homeowners and small businesses.  Standing Water can cause all kinds of problems.  Concrete in driveways, sidewalks, and foundations can be damaged.  Prolonged Drainage Problems allow mold to occur along with deterioration to plants, trees, and property.

Drain Pipe running across a flower bed in Norman

Drain Pipe running across a flower bed in Norman

Drainage Problems can be very simple with the solution being very clear.  Many times that is not the case, However! Drainage Solutions many times are not so simple.  We have 26 years of experience diagnosing Drainage Problems.  On every Drain Quote we take into account the following:

Surface Drain installed on the edge of a sidewalk in Edmond

Surface Drain installed on the edge of a sidewalk in Edmond

Identify Water Damage Areas

Primary Water Source

Secondary Water Sources (if they exist)

Water Volume to be moved

Determining single or multiple exit points

Slope or the amount of “Fall” for the water inside the drainage pipes

Type of soil around Drainage System

French Drain with River Rock

French Drain with River Rock

 

This allows us to determine type of Drain or Combination of Drains to be installed, such as a French Drain, Surface Drain, Channel Drain.  We also must determine the size of Drain Pipe and Exit Point for the Water.

If you live in Mustang and need a 6 inch French Drain along your driveway, or if you live in Norman and need a 12 inch Surface Drain installed in your flower bed, or if you live in Oklahoma City and would like a Channel Drain to run across your sidewalk, give us a call.

We service all of Central Oklahoma including:  Oklahoma City, Norman, Yukon, Moore, Midwest City, Del City, Mustang, Edmond, Purcell and Newcastle.

Estimates are free and we accept credit cards.