French Drains
We install French drains for soggy yards and for wet ground along the house. The pipe sits in washed gravel and filter fabric, sloped to an outlet.
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Water stands in the backyard for days after a rain, and the ditch in front floods the driveway. Yard drainage gives that water a path off the lot. We install catch basins, channel drains, downspout drain lines and swales. Where the parish or city allows it, we set driveway culverts too.
RockSolid Contracting is a concrete contractor in Lafayette with drainage under the same roof. A channel drain can go in with the driveway pour. When the ground itself stays wet, a French drain may be the better fix. Call or text (337) 520-8615, or send photos of where the water stands.
Tell us about the driveway, slab, drainage problem or teardown and where it is. We look at the job and put the quote in writing.
The USDA soil survey says Frost silt loam, common around Lafayette, mostly slopes less than half a percent. Rain soaks in slowly, and runoff is very slow. In most years, that soil is wet within a foot and a half of the surface from December through April.
NOAA's 30-year normal for Lafayette's airport is about 63 inches of rain a year. The Lafayette Consolidated Government's Drainage Department says roadside ditches are usually sized for a 2 to 10 year storm. A bigger rain fills them, and in August 2016 the flood exceeded what the parish system could carry.
Water leaving a yard heads for the public system of ditches and coulees. A coulee is the drainage channel Acadiana towns are built around. On flat ground, yard water needs a planned path to reach that system.
A catch basin is a box with a grate, set at the low spot where water pools. Pipe carries the water from the basin to an outlet, sloped the whole way. The outlet is often the street side of the lot, where local rules allow.
A channel drain is a long, narrow grate set in concrete. Across a driveway, it catches water running toward the garage. Along a patio, it catches water the slab sends back at the house. If the patio has sunk and tilts back, the better fix may be tearing out the old slab.
Downspout drainage starts where the downspout meets the ground. A buried line carries roof water from the foundation to a pop-up emitter or the street side. LCG's property maintenance code says roof water may not be discharged onto the lot next door.
The state building code, the Louisiana State Uniform Construction Code, is built on the International Residential Code. Its section R401.3 says the ground must fall at least 6 inches in the first 10 feet from the foundation. When we regrade around a house, we work to that fall. On a tight lot, the code calls for drains or a swale, a shallow graded ditch that carries water.
Where a driveway crosses a roadside ditch, a culvert pipe carries the ditch water under it. In the City of Lafayette and the parish areas outside city limits, LCG takes culvert permit requests. Its Public Works department approves the pipe size and grade. Broussard, Carencro, Scott, Youngsville and Duson handle drainage inside their own limits.
LCG's code also says driveway work may not alter or block the flow in a side ditch. The permit is sorted out before culvert installation starts, and the pipe can go in with a new concrete driveway. Other parishes have their own rules, and we point you to the right office.
Call or text for a written quote. We work about an hour around Lafayette, from the Acadiana towns to Baton Rouge.
(337) 520-8615From the first call or text to the finished work, here is how it goes.
Call or text (337) 520-8615 and tell us about the job and where it is. Send photos if you like.
We come out to look at the site and where the water runs. Clear photos can stand in for that first look.
You get the quote in writing, with the work spelled out. Once you say yes, we set a date, and pour days follow the weather.
First comes the tear-out, or the forms and rebar for new concrete. Then the ready-mix truck arrives, and we pour and finish the slab. On drainage jobs, we dig the trench and set the pipe.
We take a final look at the work with you, and the site is cleaned up. We also tell you when the new concrete can take foot traffic and when it can take a car.
Common questions about yard drainage around Lafayette and across Acadiana. If yours is not here, call or text and ask.
We install French drains for soggy yards and for wet ground along the house. The pipe sits in washed gravel and filter fabric, sloped to an outlet.
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New concrete driveways, replacements, extensions and parking pads for homes across Acadiana. The apron and the culvert at the street are part of the job, and the quote comes in writing.
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We break out cracked or sunken driveways, patios, walks and slabs and haul the rubble off. Where a new slab goes in, we grade the base and pour new concrete.
Learn MoreOne call covers the whole job. The teardown and the new pour come from the same company, and so can the drainage.
We pour each slab to the thickness its use calls for, on a compacted base. Driveways and slabs get rebar or wire mesh. Control joints go in so shrinkage cracks land where they belong.
We look at the job first, on site or from the photos you send. Then the quote comes to you in writing, with the work spelled out.
Our work reaches about an hour around Lafayette, from Opelousas down to Abbeville. Baton Rouge, to the east, is in our area too.
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Read more →Tell us about the job and the town it is in, and text us photos if you have them. Call or text (337) 520-8615 or use the form, and we will get back to you.
Tell us about the driveway, slab, drainage problem or teardown and where it is. We look at the job and put the quote in writing.