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A French Drain moves water from low spots in the yard. The system consist of both perforated pipe surrounded by gravel (or EZ Flow Drain Pipe) and Catch basins. The perforated pipe surrounded by gravel, removes SUBSURFACE WATER and the Catch Basins help remove IMMEDIATE WATER RUNOFF from the ground.
perforated pipe surrounded by gravel – French Drain
Once the water has been collected by the system, it needs a place to go. Gravity drains work great, providing you have downhill run away from the area. However, most homes here in Florida need a Sump Pump. We send all the water collected by the French Drain System to the Sump Basin and the Sump Pump, lifts the water up and sends it out to the street or storm drain.
This system with properly installed Pump, can keep up with the most severe rains. Hurricanes and Northeasters!
Sump Basins Holds The Pump and the Pump lifts the water up and send it out to the street
During the dry season, the water table recedes and leaves pathways for water to travel when it rains hard. The Best Time to install a French drain is January through March, Before the rains begin!
Here at Apple Drains, Drainage Contractors, we have been installing French Drain for over 30 years. We install a great Zoeller M98 Sump Pump to remove water fast! This pump can lift 80 to 120 gallons per minute. That’s lie 3 trash cans full of water every minute!
Zoeller M59, 1/2 hp Sump Pump
During the past (2) Hurricanes, both Matthew and Irma, ALL of our installs kept up with the rain! Not may others can make that statement!
Please use our SERVICE SIGN UP SHEET to schedule an estimate today. We do charge for our time. Estimates are not free. There is a 35.00 charge for us to come out and access, inspect and design a system custom for your specific needs. We Do however, apply that 35.00 to the purchase of any new system we install, so you don’t really loose the cost.
Out of area estimates the fee is 277.50. This is a time and travel cost and YES, we do apply that to any new system we install!
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Flood Warning – Coastal Florida and surrounding Areas
From Apple Drains Team:
Orlando FL
Special Notice
Crawl Space and Sump Pumps.
Coastal Florida
Yard Flooding? We Can Help!
Wet Crawl Space? We Can Help!
Heavy rains are causing many crawl space problems. Flooding and high water is a major concern.
Our team is working as fast as possible to help with all the flooded crawl space.
Please use our Service Sign Up Sheet for faster service.
If you have an emergency where crawl space is full of water, please let us know and we will give you priority on our schedule.
Your estimate will go into our schedule and we will try to get someone out there this week. Please bare with us as we are extremely busy due to recent rains and are working as fast as we can to get all the estimates done.
You don’t need to be home but its always helpful. If you are not home, we will still leave an estimate with proposed drawing of drainage and associated costs on the door or in the mail box. We also post out estimates online and will send you a link when completed. Its a PDF file that you can click and open with all the details of your estimate.
Best Regards,
Apple Drains
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Backyard Flood? We can help! French Drain installed with catch basins.
A good French drain is perforated pipe surrounded by gravel. This system is used to collect water from low spots in the yard, under the house, in the crawl space, along the exterior footer of the house, under driveways, and under basement floors.
perforated pipe surrounded by gravel – French Drain
The Gravel and Perforated pipe collect subsurface water. French Drain works best in low spots through the yard or along the footer and foundation of the house.
A good French drain will be at least 20″ inches deep. a base of gravel under the pipe and on top. The holes of the pipe point down into the base of gravel underneath. Watch a video of “How a French drain works“.
French drain is perforated pipe surrounded by gravel at least 20 inch deep for best collection. Apple Drains, Drainage Contractors
Adding catch Basins will make the system work even better. Catch basins collect immediate surface water runoff! In other words, as it rains and water begins to flood, the catch basin will collect the water straight away.
Catch basins collect immediate surface water runoff. French Drain Help
Once the French Drain is installed it will need a place to discharge. The water needs to flow downhill and away from the area, usually to the street or storm drain. A Pop Up Emitter can be used at the end of the line or a curb hole can be drilled for even better discharge.
The discharge pipe from the French drain is solid pipe. Once the water has been collected, we need to keep it and let it flow away from the wet spot.
Solid Pipe Discharge from French Drain, leads to discharge at Curb, Apple Drains
Sometimes a Sump Pump is needed to left the water up from areas that are too low for gravity flow to the street or storm. Sump Pits and Pumps Work Great! In fact, They work even better than gravity!!
Sump Pump Attached to French Drain
A good sump pump will lift and pump 40 to 60 gallons of water per minute! That’s 2 trash cans full of water every minute being removed when it rains. The pump needs to be at least 1/3 horsepower and sits in proper sump basin at least 24 inch deep.
French Drain with Catch basin attached to Sump Pump
The discharge pipe from the pump should be 1 1/2 inch to 2 inch PVC.
So how much does a good system cost?
You can expect to pay from 1700 to 4200 for a good system, It really depends on much pipe and gravel need to be installed.
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At 6 PM EST, Hurricane Matthew is about 10 hours from landfall around Daytona Beach.
Apple Drains has emergency crew for those that need help in Flagler, St Johns, Putnam, Clay and Duvall Counties.
Please if you need help, call or use the sign up sheet for assistance.
While all the Government Emergency officials keep saying “if you are in an evacuation area, they will not help”, Apple Drains is ready to try our best to help those in need.
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Hey! Chuck here with Apple Drains.
Here in North Florida, working on jobs in Orlando this past week and of course Hurricane Matthew decides to come forward.
Everyone has story and I am sure Facebook and Twitter are overwhelmed with posts.
I pray everyone will survive this hurricane and no harm or damage comes all the people in the path of this deadly hurricane.
As for me, Our property and office is just 35 miles from the coast directly across from Matanzas Inlet (St Augustine area fro those of you that don’t know the Florida’s East Coast.) Here the winds are expected to be 80 mph with higher gusts. That’s a lot of wind. Rainfall may exceed 8 inches. So damage will occur! There is no way around it.
I have taken precautionary measures and secured as much as I can. Have plenty of water, fuel and food.. Jobs have been placed on hold until Saturday after the storm passes.
View of Hurricane Matthew
9:45 AM 10-6-16
9:45 AM Thursday Oct 6th, 2016
I will try to post a video during the landfall, and try to show what its like l=inland just 35 miles from the coast.
Again,
Best Of luck to everyone!
Chuck,
Apple Drains
Drainage Contractors
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