Watch the Bloomfield Hills catch basin and dry well job.
Job at a glance
- Location: Bloomfield Hills, MI
- Service: yard and exterior drainage
- Problem: water pooling next to the foundation
- What we did: set a catch basin where the water collected and piped it underground across the yard to a dry well
- Video: 37 seconds
The problem: water pooling by the foundation
Water sitting next to a house soaks straight down along the foundation wall. In Southeast Michigan clay, it has nowhere to go, so it builds pressure against the basement and finds every crack. Fixing the drainage outside is often the cheapest way to keep a basement dry.
How we fixed it
- Set a catch basin at the low spot where water was collecting.
- Dug a trench across the yard with our mini excavator.
- Ran solid pipe underground from the catch basin to a dry well, away from the house.
- The dry well holds the water and lets it soak into the ground slowly, far from the foundation.
- Backfilled the trench so the yard can be restored.
When a catch basin or dry well makes sense
- Puddles that sit next to the house for hours or days after rain
- Downspouts dumping right at the foundation
- A low spot in the yard that never dries out
- Damp basement walls on the side where the water collects
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