You see that grate in your yard? Water flows down it from your sprinklers and the rain. The little rodents hover around it. Leaves from your bushes and trees flow down onto it.

That is a yard drain. It is an essential part of your yard and overall home drainage system. Drains can be used for channeling storm or rain water and prevent flooding and property damage.

Yard drains are essentially the landscape features used to drain and channel water streams from a roof gutter. They take water away from the downspout system in the yard and take it away from the foundation of the house.

Yard drains are also called area drains or landscape drains. They are usually installed in areas of your yards which have unique, expansive landscaping or swimming pools.

Yard drains drain the water and runoff from rain, sprinklers and swimming pools to make sure your entire yard or concrete landscape areas are not riddled with water puddles at every other point.

The yard drain is usually part of an extensive plumbing and draining system in your entire household used to drain everything in your bathrooms, kitchens and washing areas.

Floor drains are usually installed in other external, non-living spaces like garages and even basements in case rain water or water from leaking pipes collect on the floor.

All sorts of drains are useful. However, they can be prone to issues and blockages.

If you need your yard drain maintained, inspected or repaired, you should call for a competent plumbing services. This is because when yard drains are tricky things and a plumbing service might need to perform the following services to fix them.

Removing the Drain Gate

The plumbing service will need to find the catch basin of the yard drain and remove the drain cover. A drain cover is usually a grid in the rim of the catch basin, made of plastic or metal.

They can be located in the middle of lower regions of the yard or the patio and pool decks. They can also be placed near roof gutters where the gutters downspout near the house’s foundation.

Plumbing services will know how to detach and fix the drain gates and catch basins. Catch basins of yard drains often need to be unclogged because of the leaves, soils, dirt, and other natural or artificial debris that may collect in the yard drain.

The grates can be undone with a tool kit and reattached to the rim of the catch basin. The rim will need to be unscrewed in a manner that does not damage the mechanism.

Cleaning Debris

After unscrewing the grates in the catch basin, a plumbing service will need to be cleaned out by hand or using a hand cultivator. The plumber can also clean the debris out using a shop vacuum to suck out all the dirt.

The plumber will be able to take out any trash or foreign object and locate all the drains to make sure the pipes are not damaged or backed up as a result of remaining debris.

Inspect Termination Area

To an untrained eye, the termination area will be difficult to find. A professional plumbing service, will be able to locate and inspect the termination area and assess the damage from the debris.

The termination area is essentially the where the drain pipes empty out in the basin and this may be located near slopes or curbs in your yard or street. The termination area is used to channel water away from the yard.

A termination area can also be located near a dry-well which is a subsurface basin filled with gravel. In this case, the well top will be removed to clean out the termination area.

The termination area will need to be inspected by hand by a professional, using safety material. Some termination areas will have a grate.

This will need to be lifted to clean out and vacuum the debris, leaves and dirt collecting in the termination area.

Flushing Drain Pipes

Plumbers will then need to flush the drain pipes. Professionally handled, they can be flushed through garden hoses and inserts into the drain pipes.

You should not attempt this on your own because the drain pipes could get damaged if the hose is ineffectively pushed in.

The plumber will flush the debris out using multiple pressure points and hoses, based on the assessment of the debris.

Once the plumber is successful with this endeavor, the termination point will be visible. Debris will clear out to make the water clear and clean again.

Assembly of Grates

After the plumber has cleaned the grates and drains, they will need to reassemble and attach the grates of the yard drains. They will attach the grates over the catch basins and over the termination area. This termination area will now be perfectly functional and will drain perfectly.

Contact Us!

The plumbers at Mr Drain Plumbing will be delighted to help you with your leaks and repairs. We provide maintenance, inspection and plumbing services in BAY Area, CA at reasonable prices.

We provide top-notch plumbing services. We have a hundred-percent satisfaction rate and we recommend that you avail our services for leaks and floods.

Fixing a pipe yourself can be a problem and can expose you to safety risks as well as damage the plumbing system and the property’s foundation.

We employ efficient and well-trained professionals to examine, fix and install any slab leaks, water heater leaks or pipe leaks in your home. Our staff can patch up your pipes, inspect your foundations, check your floors and even provide emergency water heater leak services.

If you are in the BAY Area, you should give us a call if you have installation needs or repair maintenance issues for your plumbing system. We are available for services at all times and can be contacted through this number: 510-257-1329.