Yard drainage, rainwater diversion and lawn irrigation
Yard drainage comes up when puddles sit for weeks after rain and water seeps into the basement; sprinklers, when the lawn and flower beds burn out in summer. Describe your yard and soil in an order, and contractors will send responses. Or compare their prices, work photos and client reviews.
Drainage and irrigation contractors
How much drainage and a lawn sprinkler system cost
What affects the price
Trench length and depth
Drainage is most often priced per linear meter. Depth depends on the job: a lawn needs a shallower trench, while foundation drainage usually goes at footing level or below.
Where the water goes
It is simplest when water flows by gravity into a ditch or a lower part of the yard. If there is nowhere to discharge it, you will need a collection well and a drainage pump.
Soil and groundwater
A trench takes longer to dig in dense clay than in sand, and when groundwater sits high, water often has to be pumped out of the trench while the work is going on.
Irrigation zones
A lawn, flower beds and a greenhouse are watered differently: by sprinklers or drip line, and each such zone needs its own valve and a separate pipe.
A finished lawn and paths
Irrigation and drainage pipes are easier to lay before the lawn is sown and the paths are paved than to cut through finished turf later and restore it.
Prices come from specialists' profiles on Nexperity and update automatically. You agree the final price with the specialist directly.
How to find a drainage and irrigation contractor
Two ways — pick the one that suits you
Pick a specialist yourself
- 1Open specialists' profiles and their work
- 2Send a request that describes the task
- 3Once accepted — contact the specialist directly
Post an order
- 1Describe the task, payment and the timing you want
- 2Receive responses from specialists
- 3Pick the best specialist and agree directly
- Free for clients
- Orders can be posted anonymously
- Your contacts open only after acceptance
- No commission on the deal
How to choose a drainage and irrigation contractor
- 1
Where the water comes from
Ask how the contractor will tell where the water comes from — the roof and higher ground or the soil: that decides whether you need deep drainage or surface channels.
- 2
Slope and inspection wells
Ask what slope the drain pipe will be laid at and whether there will be inspection wells at the turns: through them the pipe is flushed when it silts up.
- 3
Trenches in the photos
Look in the portfolio for photos of trenches before backfilling: in clay soil the pipe and gravel are usually wrapped in geotextile, otherwise the drain silts up faster.
- 4
The sprinkler layout
Ask for a layout: where the sprinklers will stand, how their circles will overlap so no dry patches are left, and whether the house wall and paths will get wet.
- 5
Winterizing
Ask whether the contractor drains the system or blows it out with a compressor in the fall and restarts it in spring — and whether that is in the installation cost.
What to put in the order
What you need: yard or foundation drainage, rainwater diversion, a sprinkler system or drip irrigation
Where and when water collects: puddles after rain, a flooded basement or a damp foundation wall
The yard's area in sotkas or square meters, its slope and soil, if you know them: clay, sand or black soil
Where the water can be drained to: a ditch, a storm sewer or a lower part of the yard
For irrigation: what to water and where the water comes from — the mains, a well or a tank
Whether there is already a lawn, paths and plantings, whether machinery can get in, and when you would like to start
Questions about Nexperity
How Nexperity works — separately for clients and for specialists
For clients
Nothing. Searching for specialists, sending requests, posting orders and receiving responses are free.
No. You agree the price and the payment method with the specialist and pay them directly. Nexperity does not take payments and is not a party to your deal.
A request goes to one specialist — from their profile. An order is posted for everyone: specialists send you responses, and you choose which one to accept.
How the specialist will do the task, a price — fixed, a range, hourly or “on request” — and, optionally, an estimated timeline.
30 days from publication: all that time it is visible in the feed and specialists can send responses. The exact end date and time are shown on the order in your account. From that moment the order is closed and a response can no longer be accepted. You can cancel it earlier, and if no specialist turned up, post a new one.
Yes: you can hide your name and photo in an order. The anonymity lasts until acceptance — the specialist whose response you accept sees your name and photo. The task description is public: anyone visiting the site can read it.
Only after acceptance — when you accept their response or they accept your request. And only the contacts you chose to show.
After acceptance you see the contacts the specialist chose to show, and they see the ones you chose. You can also message on Nexperity when the chat is on: on an order you decide that, on a direct request the specialist does.
Once the work is done, mark the order or the collaboration completed in your account — then you can say whether you recommend the specialist. A review can only be left for a collaboration that happened through Nexperity: one per specialist, which you can change or delete at any time.
For specialists
Nothing for now: this is the free period, and no subscription is needed yet. Nexperity takes no commission on deals — you settle with the client directly.
Sign up, fill in your specialist profile and add your services — each with a category, a description and a price. Once the profile is complete, it appears in search and on the category pages.
Two ways: clients send you requests from your profile, which you can accept or decline; and you see public orders in your categories in your account and can respond to them.
You describe how you will do the task and give a price and, optionally, a timeline. The client compares responses and accepts one.
Contacts set to “Public” are visible to everyone on your profile. A client sees contacts set to “After connection” once you accept their request or they accept your response. “Hidden” ones are not revealed in new connections: a contact already revealed to a client stays visible to them.
Each service has a fixed price, a range, an hourly rate or “on request”. Prices show on your profile and in search results, and you agree the final price with the client.
Through search and the category pages of your services. The order depends on your clients' reviews — how many of them recommend you — and in search also on how well your services match the query.
A photo, a description, your region and way of working — online or in person — your contacts and a portfolio: photos of your work, each with a short caption if you like.
A client leaves a review after completed work, and only for a collaboration through Nexperity: they say whether they recommend you and may add a few words. Each client counts once, however many times you work together.
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