DIY - Keep Outdoor Drains Flowing

If you’re anything like me, you hate to tirelessly clear leaves, gravel, needles, icy slush or whatever other debris piles up clogging the drainage water flow. It never fails, the puddle of water pools. If we are in early spring, it freezes. Great, now you have a skating rink! Well, NOT actually great. If the rain keeps coming, it inevitably washes small amounts of sticks, leaves and needles over the drain clogging any last-ditch effort for drainage. Then before you know it, your driveway or nicely landscaped yard becomes a pond.

Before reinventing the wheel, if your drain lies in a landscaped area (in other words, you are not driving over it), try a replacing the Drain Cover / Grate with an Atrium Grate. Atrium Grates are designed to let debris collect on the outside while water washes over the top of the debris. Usually bell shaped and varying in sizes, it would take a heck of a lot more leaves to block this drain cover / grate!

They come in both square and round diameters and made to fit various existing drain solutions.  Installation is usually a quick snap in place or turn of a thread. Presto! No Handyman needed on this one!