If runoff creates a problem around your house or in your landscape, you may want to install a French drain. If you have a soggy yard, an eroding slope or a wet basement due to surface runoff ...

If your yard turns into a pond after a storm, these solutions can help you manage the excess water and grow great grass.

Gravity pulls water from the surface into the pipe, which drains the water out from the yard. French drains are optimized to collect water and transfer it. They are surrounded by gravel or stone ...

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Rain makes the flowers bloom, so they say, but sometimes it can also make puddles in your yard that turn everything ... main options for major drainage projects. French drains are perforated ...

Q: I live on a low-lying lot. My crawl space is always wet, even though I have a dehumidifier and a sump pump down there. People have suggested I use French drains; one said exterior ones ...

Q: A well-respected and competent contractor who has done excellent work for us in the past is giving us a bid to install a French drain and surface ... where the rear yard meets the foundation.

We have had a string of dry winters in a row, so a real wet ... drainage is especially important when we garden on clay soils, as so many of us do. Even if there are no standing puddles in your ...

If your image is a swampy, saturated swath of ground in the yard ... a French drain behind the wall. First, a powerful disclaimer: If your house is taking on water or the foundation is wet ...