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Drainage solutions are necessary when water does not properly drain away from your property. Water retention can do serious damage to the base structure of your home. In severe cases, a heavy rain can cause your house to flood inside.

Drainage problems can cause serious damage to the foundation of your home. There are 3 ways to maintain water around your home to keep your foundation, and your home, in a healthy state: protect your home from water during the rainy season; keep soil moist during the dry season; install the right drainage solutions for your home to keep up with the way water behaves specifically at your home year round to avoid costly repairs.

Weinstein Construction specializes in permanent drainage solutions to protect homes and buildings from water intrusion due to rain water, lawn irrigation, or soil erosion. We offer a wide array of exterior drainage systems to design the best drainage solution unique to your home or property in Los Angeles and surrounding areas.

Drainage problems cause damage underneath the home in the crawl space or basement, doing damage to the concrete footing and basement walls. They are difficult to stop because the source of these problems are sometimes difficult to find.

We’ve inspected hundreds of homes where the homeowner’s efforts have gone spent, and some efforts seemed to us to be pretty good. However, most of these efforts are “patchwork” efforts and may never hold up past one or two rain cycles.

Weinstein Construction custom tailors drainage solutions unique to the drainage problem at your home. It might be necessary to assemble a variety of different types of drainage components to maximize the effectiveness of the overall drainage solution. These drainage solution components may include: pop-up drains, channel drains, round grates, catch basins, atrium grates, pipe drains, French drains, square grates, lawn scape outlets, and other miscellaneous forms of drainage commonly found in many homes.

Weinstein uses the best products on the drainage solution market, products that yield dramatic results for the best price of their kind. For instance, Weinstein uses award-winning and patented products to create outstanding drainage solutions specially engineered and crafted for your crawl space or basement. Since 1977, Weinstein Construction can keep any home dry, all the time, using our exclusively licensed patented products. There is no crawl space or wet basement drainage problem we can’t solve!

When homeowners order these drainage solution products from our firm, they also enjoy the benefits of product and labor warranties and guarantees. Weinstein Construction will let you know of all possible drainage solutions and all covered warranties. If anybody in this business knows that there’s a drainage solution for everybody, it’s Weinstein.

The right drainage solutions are supposed to alter the behavior of water so that it does what it is supposed to do without damaging the home or property. Many times, the right drainage solution is supposed to keep water at bay, permanently, and effectively, putting water where it belongs!

Here are some common ideas for drainage solutions that Weinstein can offer:

• French Drains

• Waterproofing Protection

• Wet Basement Drainage Systems

• Crawl Space Drainage Systems

• Storm Drains and Rain Drain Systems

• Channel Drains

• Environmentally Smart Drainage Solutions

Here’s a look at how drainage solutions might be effective for your property, and how they work, in a little bit more detail:

Surface Drainage Solutions

Surface drainage is the most prevailing and common type of solutions found in most homes with flat properties. Use surface drainage to keep water off of your driveway, other kind of hardscape, or low lying landscape where run-off might be a problem. When surface drainage can get water to the street or to the sewer, then this is the right drainage solution for your home or property.

Grading/Swales Drainage Solutions

For hillside properties, this is generally a very effective approach to creating the perfect drainage solution. Use the natural flow of gravity to reshape and resurface your lawn or landscape so that water has a more natural inclination away from your property or the area the water seems to be doing the most damage. Most of the time, little work to the landscape itself will be needed. It is just a matter of creating new swales to counter soil erosion and heavy downhill runoff. Rock basket retaining walls, or gabions, may also be the right choice for the right yard.

French Drainage Solutions

If you’ve noticed water pooling outside your home, you’ll want to install a french drain. This will not only carry away the water, but it will also help prevent water damage to your home.

Ground water is a common source of water problems, which commonly releases onto many properties. Most homeowners will need a subsurface water collection system, or French Drain. The purpose of a French drain drainage solution is to collect water discharged from the ground and help it travel to a better location.

Usually installed close to your home, a french drain is normally installed at the lowest point on the property. However, french drainage systems can be installed elsewhere in the yard or property if the troublesome water is not located right by your structure. The end of the line for french drainage systems can be anywhere so long as it ends at a point that will not allow the water to flow back towards your home. If gravity allows, it will go to the street.

The system itself does not lie very deep within the ground. However, because these drainage systems use gravity to help carry the water away, it is necessary to install your french drain on a downward slope set exponentially at about ¼ inch per foot. In some cases, this may require us to do a bit of extra digging in order to maintain the downward slope.

French drainage solutions essentially create an underground channel to funnel water runoff from one area to a lower one.

In some recommended cases, french drainage systems may be installed around the perimeter of the home, and eventually flows to the street via solid pipe connections and curb cut installations beneath the sidewalk. Our french drainage systems are highly effective.

For rain gutters and downspouts, the downspouts are never connected to the French drain. The perforations will cause the water to leak and make the ground you are trying to dry up become more wet. You can lay downspout extensions and PVC in the same trench as French drains, but not connected to the same line. And roof debris can also clog the French drains.

Weinstein provides french drain solutions in Los Angeles, Long Beach, Santa Ana, Huntington Beach, Anaheim, Glendale, Oxnard, Van Nuys, Garden Grove, Torrance, Pasadena, Pomona, North Hollywood, Palmdale, Whittier, Fullerton, La Puente, Simi Valley, Costa Mesa, Downey, Ventura, Bell Gardens, Burbank, Norwalk, Lancaster, Inglewood, Orange, Irvine, and surrounding California areas.

Crawl Space/Waterproofing/Mold & Mildew Drainage Solutions

Mold can grow almost anywhere there is water damage, high humidity, or dampness. Mold variations can include mildew, fungi, bacteria, and dust mites which can flourish in damp locations with high humidity. Mold spores can cause allergies, airway infections, asthma, and other breathing and health problems, particularly in children. To prevent mold, damp areas, and derivative health problems while protecting your most valuable investment (your home) foundation waterproofing is a great solution.

Waterproofing a house prevents water from penetrating your foundation causing long term and costly problems.

Waterproofing also prevents crawl space moisture that can cause mold, allergies, and air quality issues. Our company can help seal your house and prevent expensive structural damage to your home’s foundation. Sealing your home will control the air quality within, which will prevent any mold related allergies and air quality problems.

Wet Basement Drainage Solutions

If you’ve noticed your basement wall is leaking water, we have state of the art, innovative solutions to protect your walls from cracking and buckling, ultimately saving the base structure of your home from experiencing structural deterioration, saving you thousands in damage repair.

Our basement drainage systems will permanently and effectively protect your basement.

If you’ve noticed any leaky basement walls,  then it may be time to consider our basement drainage systems. A leaky basement wall may lead to extreme basement flooding, destroying all of the property in your basement, including stored valuables and utility equipment. We can design the perfect drainage systems solution to permanently and effectively prevent leaky basements or flooding.

Some of our other products in our catalog of basement drainage systems include the WaterGuard Basement Drainage Systems and the complimentary Clean Space Basement Drainage Systems Encapsulation System (which can also be used for crawl space protection and sealing.) Learn how our Basement Drainage Systems can help you by contacting us today!

Foundation Waterproofing Drainage Solutions

Water can penetrate the foundation walls, which can cause the foundation footing to crack and cause your home to shift. Water that enters the crawl space can leave the soil wet, causing it to expand and shrink, especially on adobe soil. This leads to foundation settlement and shifting. It also leads to serious health problems for those living in the home. We can install the right crawl space drainage systems solution.

Environmentally Smart Drainage Solutions

Most homes here throughout Los Angeles exist on flat property. These homes, specifically those without property drainage systems, oftentimes see water pooling in the backyard. The backyard is usually set at a point lower than the front yard, so water will find its way there, unable to penetrate the surface of the adobe soil. The bountiful rest finds its way to the street and runs off into the ocean. Good fresh water is wasted every time a lawn is watered or when it rains.

There is a green innovation called, the Flo-Well Storm Water Leaching System. Your own groundwater aqueduct system, Flo-Well is designed to transfer the water from the surface of your soil to the subsoil. Not only is it small, easy to install, clean to use and affordable, but it effectively restricts fresh runoff water from going into the ocean, retaining the water below ground instead.

Flo-Well water retains inside the underground single or multilayer chamber, which allows you to recycle that water for lawn irrigation and saves you money!

When the chamber fills, the remaining water raises our below groundwater table index. Almost every homeowner now has the ability to raise the level of our water table for less dry summers here in Southern California!

If you have ponds or waterfalls at your home, then Flo-Well acts as a reservoir for the recirculation pumps. It’s good for areas that puddle easily and this includes vast golf courses throughout Los Angeles and Southern California.

Flo-Well installations can change the course of water conservation technology throughout Southern California and Weinstein Retrofitting can install one at your home or property in 1-2 days!