November 18, 2011

Your Property's Defense Against Excess Water: Drain Grate Installation

By Linda Robbins


To make sure your property is protected against flood, you need to have proper drainage. A drain grate can prevent water pooling on or around your property, which means it avoids thousands of dollars in repair. It is best installed around your land, the pool, the garage, and where the land is lowered.

Especially during the wet season, water can seep in the foundation of buildings. The threats that can potentially cause cracks and movements on the foundation of the building are standing water and flooded underground areas, including cellars. Excess water in the garden areas is likewise dangerous. It can either collect in your lawn or cause saturation in soil. It can not only kill your plants, but can also produce erosion in elevated fields as well.

A simple solution to avoid all this is to install a drain grate around your land. Installing just one drain hole isn't enough, though. It is not enough protection against rain water, particularly during heavy rain pour. A drain grate, more specifically channel drain grates, is set up around the property so that the water has fewer chances of reaching the building.

Nowadays, particularly in commercial properties, a drain grate also works as an architectural design and not simply defense against flood. Channel drain grates have unlimited collection of colors that can either be a camouflage or a standout, depending on the design.

There are those who want their drain grates installed in inconspicuous color to blend into the walkway or driveway. The standard vertical line patterns are ordinarily used to make it become unobtrusive.

But there are also those, and they are becoming quite in style nowadays, that are in customized patterns and colors to make them stand out. These drain grates are normally found around the fountain area and swimming pool or wherever visible to people. They are considered decorative and functional at the same time.

Defending your property from water and flooding can save your building's foundation, which means it can also save you from expensive cost of restoration later on. A simple and often very ornamental way to do so is to install a drain grate around your property.



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