Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Burying Your Discharge Line

I’ve needed to vacuum the office/dining room area in my townhouse for probably two weeks. I’ve had time to do it, and I don’t even mind vacuuming - particularly since the animals are terrified of it (cat) or filled with burning hatred for it (dog), so I get some entertainment - but I haven’t.

 Because there’s stuff in the way.

 There’s a coffee table awkwardly jackknifed in the middle of the room because it got moved there and then left presumably until we move. There’s a rolling chair. There’s the cat’s litterbox. All small things, but all obstacles in my path that I’m just too lazy to move.

 Now, luckily, the carpet doesn’t grow; I’m not in danger of my house turning into a jungle, just approaching levels of debris where I won’t let anyone come over. If this situation were occurring outside with a yard instead of carpet, I’d be in trouble.

But that’s what happens when you have an extended discharge line from your sump pump. You look out across your garden, your yard, your ugly white pipe. It’s a good thing you spent so much time and money on landscaping, only to have it marred by something vital to your home’s function but really disruptive to its form.

Having an above ground discharge line presents plenty of problems. It’s ugly, as we mentioned. But it’s also unsafe - your pets, kids, or even you can easily trip over it. And it’s inconvenient; every time you mow the lawn, you have to get close-but-not-too-close to the line, stop, shift the line, carefully mow, move it in the opposite direction, mow what you couldn’t get to the first time, etc, etc. I, for one, don’t want to be that close to a running lawnmower while moving a discharge line. And what are the odds you’re really going to get all of the grass? Or hey, maybe it’ll just die and leave a nice brown line. Great.

You actually don’t have to live like this, though. In the old days it was difficult, even impossible, to bury a discharge line without the constant worry of clogging and letting water back up into the house, but things have changed. Our Lawnscape outlet attaches to the end of the line and allows us to bury the discharge line while still providing an above ground escape for water.

And the process won’t even destroy your lawn! Our installation teams take great care when removing sod from your lawn and then replace it after the line is buried, leaving almost no sign that there was a disruption.

If you have an above ground discharge line you’d like out of sight, or you’re hesitating to get waterproofing work done because of the disruption to your yard, call us today.