For waterlogged lawns or flooding problems, the drain systems explained on this page or a combination will drain pipes the water away.

Homeowners use these drain system to drain a garden.

Garden Drainage options to fix drain problems triggered by the following;

Underground springs triggering waterlogging in the garden,

Surface area water draining pipes into your garden from higher ground,

Rainwater lies for several hours in swimming pools on the surface area,

The ground or yard is constantly soaked.

Footings for extensions redirecting water.

A neighbour is directing rainwater into your garden.

Flooding from a river.

Some drainage systems will be as simple as aeration of compressed ground. Aeration is just handing over the surface area of the compacted lawn to permit surface area water to drain pipes from the surface into the soil listed below. It’s worth attempting this prior to hiring the professionals. How to aerate

Streaming water from a spring, rainwater streaming from greater ground or resting on saturated ground for more than 3 days will likely require a garden drainage system installation to obstruct the water and directs it away into a soak-away, or sump pit or into the rainwater drainage system.

Drainage system laid under the yard and garden can typically be built utilizing plastic drainage pipe, gravel French drains or a combination of gravel and pipes.
French drain system.
Over the years, when they are installed properly, a gravel drain system (French drain) installed listed below the surface area, last longer and is the most effective drain system laid under turf and is the land drainage approach I use.
French drainage takes about 3 days to install and the location will be usable within a couple of days. The gravel is laid into lined trenches dug in a “herring-bone” pattern to drain pipes the total area.

The French drain gravel drainage system is described in detail here lawn and garden drainage.
After the French drain system has actually been installed the location is covered with grit sand and oxygenated and can be seeded or returfed. More info about this basic drain system and DIY tips can be discovered on my D.I.Y. drainage pages.

Sump and Pump method.
When using plastic pipes or French drainage to drain a wet soaked garden, the water needs to be distributed far from your garden Providing the slopes are all flowing in the right direction this can be a soak away, ditch or the surface water drain system.

Tempting as it might be, surplus water should never ever be channelled to terminate in your neighbours garden. , if the area slopes away from wherever you plan the water to be released.. you will require to set up a Sump and Pump systems, that works by collecting and pumping the water to the discharge point. How to install the sump and pump is described on my drain sumps and pumps page.

For small localised soggy locations and damp patches, these drain tips might assist.

Puddling. When rainwater water pushes the surface of a lawn for more than a number of hours after rain its probably triggered by compacted soil or clay, worsened by dips and bulges in the surface area of the lawn. Compacted soil puddling is relatively easy to sort out by digging holes with a garden fork and even a crowbar over the whole of the affected location and filling the holes with coarse sand or gravel.

Soggy location or spongy yard. If you have a soaked area that is permanently damp it can nearly always be dried out by digging out a soak away 1m square and depending on the severity approximately 1m deep or if the sogginess is topped a broader area, dig a soak away trench through the area about 18 inches as deep and large as you can. Half fill the trench or soak away with clean rubble topped with 20 to 30ml gravel and ended up with about 6 inches of leading soil. You will wind up with rather a great deal of surplus soil, if its clay you will need to eliminate it, if its good fertile soil utilize it to raise your borders.
Leveling dips that catch surface area water. If your yard has excellent drain residential or commercial properties however puddles on rainy days, mark out the dips with bamboo walking canes, wait up until the lawn dries out, dish out the location and fill the dips with Grit sand. Its crucial not to smother the grass, so leave the tips of the turf poking through the sand. This procedure can be repeated over the growing season, until the whole lawn is level and free of hollows and dips.

Raised beds for small soggy areas. Raising the area by adding topsoil can work if the damp soaked location is limited to a little part of the garden. Raised beds are the very best way and can be made from nearly any product offered, my raised garden bed discusses how. Raising the level with soil does not work you would be developing a swamp if the whole garden is saturated. raising the entire garden can work if done properly Before getting talked into producing one big bog read this Raising flooded garden.
Bog gardens for low wet areas.Turning the unusable overload in a low part of your garden into a colourful bog garden planted with Bog plants that really flourish in soggy soil works and is explained on my bog garden page.

Using permeable paving. Permeable paving allows water to drain through and back into the ground instead of diverting it to where it will cause a wet soaked location or just like tarmac driveways that slope away from your house, onto the roadway triggering hazardous ice traps in winter, not very neighborly. Block pavers are a good example of permeable paving.

Linear Drainage channels

Direct drainage channels are the very best rainwater drainage systems to protect garages located at the bottom of a sloping driveway, they capture rainwater and direct it far from the garage to a drainage point.
Direct drains pipes are made from polymer concrete or plastic and fitted with plastic or metal grating over the top. I utilize the Aco channels available from a lot of builders merchants or now from amazon.
Direct drain systems are easy to suit existing driveways and patio paving by eliminating a gully big enough to fit the channels in. Corner systems and other fittings consisting of T-junction units are offered with a lot of makes of direct drain systems.

Perforated plastic pipes for laying underground drain system.

Modern plastic land drain pipes are installed in similar method as gravel drains. The perforated pipes are laid, on a bed of gravel in trenches that slope to a soakaway or drain system and covered in gravel. Soakaways do not operate in heavy clay and must be connected into the rainwater drainage system, not terminating under your neighbours fence.

Some drainage systems will be as simple as aeration of compressed ground. How to set up the sump and pump is described on my drainage sumps and pumps page.

If your lawn has good drain residential or commercial properties but puddles on rainy days, mark out the dips with bamboo walking sticks, wait till the yard dries out, fork over the location and fill the dips with Grit sand. If the wet soaked location is limited to a small part of the garden, raising the area by adding topsoil can work. Soakaways do not work in heavy clay and should be linked into the rainwater drain system, not ending under your neighbours fence.