Yard Drainage

Homeowners increasingly want to keep grass, shrubs, trees, and flowers on their entire property healthy, attractive and ready for use. Heavy use or yard work during saturated conditions compacts the soil and consequently threatens the plant life.

Multi-Flow is also often used to keep water from flowing under or even into houses, basements, and outbuildings. Multi-Flow drainage systems are ideal for drainage in residential settings. It is used beneficially in yards and gardens, along driveways and sidewalks, near foundations and retaining walls and under basements.

Residential drainage is all too often ignored during the development of new housing additions. Once the landscaping is in place with established turf, Multi-Flow becomes an even more attractive solution to drainage problems due to its unobtrusive installation method.

Whether it is new construction or addressing an existing problem, Multi-Flow is a wise choice because Multi-Flow is:

1) easy to use
2) efficient
3) long lasting
4) affordable

Easy to use - Multi-Flow is a product that homeowners, contractors, and landscape architects love to work with because of its shape, the adaptability of the overall system, and the flexibility of the pipe.

Efficient - Drainage systems must be able to collect water and transport water. Multi-Flow excels in both regards:
Collect water - Water can enter a Multi-Flow drain more quickly because Multi-Flow has greater surface area than traditional round pipe. The more drainage product that there is in contact with surrounding saturated soil, the more quickly drainage can take place.

Long lasting - Multi-Flow enjoys longevity because of:

• Strength - Multi-Flow is designed to withstand heavy loads. Able to withstand loads well in excess of 6,000 psf, Multi-Flow is not going to collapse due to heavy surface loads in shallow installations or due to earth weight in deep installations.
• Improved filtration methods - The Multi-Flow system includes a heavy effective geotextile filter. This high quality fabric acts as an excellent secondary filter, keeping Multi-Flows flow channels clean and open. Clean coarse sand acts as a very effective primary filter. Due to its shape, Multi-Flow is easily encased in sand, assuring a long life. When placed in a 4 inch wide trench Multi-Flow is readily protected in this way. This would be difficult if not impossible using French drain methodology.

Affordable - A completed Multi-Flow system typically costs about half as much as a comparable French drain system. The longer life of the Multi-Flow system brings the per year cost down much further!