Your yard’s landscape is a massive part of your house’s aesthetics. But, landscaping is not only planting flowers and weeds. Making your backyard functional is crucial for a good design. You don’t want your yard to flood every time it rains. To avoid this, you have to install proper drainage. If you don’t have a drain system, the water to go to, you will have a large pool of water that can ruin your plants and floor your basement.
One of the biggest causes of basement flooding is the position of the house itself. If your home is located on a slope of some sort, it will most definitely flood. When heavy snowfall collects in your garden, it stays for a while and then melts. The water from the melted snow then absorbs through the soil and floods your basement.
This happens during heavy rainfall as well. This is why it is essential to guide the excess water to go somewhere away…