How to Ensure That Your Vancouver Drain Tile System Works Efficiently

When winter rolls around in Vancouver, expect the rains to do the worst to your home. Homeowners should ensure that their houses are protected from the ravages of the weather, especially from the damage rainwater can inflict. Rainwater can easily seep into the foundations of a home or leak into the basement, causing extensive damage. To keep this water from accumulating where it could compromise the home's foundations and other structural elements, you need an effective Vancouver drain tile system.

A drain tile system is designed to collect and redirect water seepage away from a house—sometimes with the aid of a sump pump—to direct water into a yard, natural drainage area, or a public drainage system. Drain tiles consist of perforated pipes, usually made of PVC, with small openings on one side. To prevent the pipes from filling with debris carried by rainwater, some contractors fit the pipes with a filter system using nylon or other materials.

This type of drainage system can be installed along the interior perimeter of your foundation or the exterior of your house. Exterior drain tile systems are considered more effective than interior drain tile systems in preventing water intrusion into basements. Both methods require digging a trench, and setting the pipes in a gravel bed around the foundation.

If you have an existing drain tile system but constantly experience flooding in your basement or your yard when it rains, your system is likely clogged with debris. If this problem isn't attended to immediately, it can lead to water backing up into your home. The problem can be easily resolved if addressed at an early stage, by hiring drainage and sewer maintenance services of reputable companies like Milani Plumbing, Heating, and Drainage.

Vancouver drain cleaning professionals use high pressure drain cleaning methods to rid drain tiles of debris. Sometimes known as water jet cleaning, this process uses pressurized water through a sewer snake, a flexible cable that can be threaded through roots, soil, and debris. This cable is inserted into a collection point and is then moved through the end of the line to loosen the debris in the drain tiles.

If using a sewer snake doesn't work, drain cleaning specialists may need to cumbersomely dig out the drain tiles to clear them of accumulated debris. They dig a channel tracing the tiles' location, extract them, and then clean out the blockage.