Sentences with phrase «drainage away»

They can be small things, like standing water surrounding the house or proper grading drainage away from the structure.

The lot had a steep slope, and to control drainage and erosion, the contractor had built terraces and retaining walls and had contoured the site to direct drainage away from the house.

An evaluation of the grading will also determine proper drainage away from the house.

Not exact matches

It was a modified steam - assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) technology that, instead of burning natural gas to create steam to inject into the oilsands layer and thus «melt» the bitumen (heavy oil) away from the sand (as some experts describe it, burning a clean fuel to create a dirty one), it would burn a bituminous byproduct of the upgrading process in a closed loop.

In addition to being matted when they wake up, with bacterial conjunctivitis, you will have to frequently wipe away the drainage from your child's eyes.

During excavation to demolish the old pool, it was discovered that the drainage design in the original plan did not go deep enough to deflect groundwater away from the pool structure.

Dieting won't make it go away but manual lymph drainage can help and a certain type of lipo.

It supposedly lifts the skin away from the muscle, which is supposed to increase blood flow and lymph drainage.

It didn't go away completely until I figured out the cause, but the lymphatic drainage helped heal the individual breakouts.

Manual lymphatic drainage is a type of gentle massage which is intended to encourage the natural drainage of the lymph which carries waste products away from the tissues back toward the heart thus reducing swelling or edema in the tissues.

Unless your vet has advised against it, I'm going to recommend you give your dog a bath to wash away any drainage that might still be in the fur.

Keeping the fur around the eyes trimmed short and washing away the drainage once or twice a day with a warm, wet cloth or eye rinse will keep staining to a minimum.

The conjunction of the two forms tends to encourage the collection of water and other detritus, and to block the drainage hole which carries rainwater away through the base.

A drainage for rain water and a special drip irrigation system keeps your garden in shape when you're away.

But the companion study, led by the polar scientist Robin Bell of the Lamont - Doherty Observatory suggests that drainage on the Nansen Ice Shelf might help to keep the ice intact, perhaps by draining away the meltwater in the dramatic waterfall the scientists had identified.

Drainage conduit was embedded with the gravel in order to channel rainwater away from the foundation and into his garden, which is rampant this time of year with gooseberries, elderberries and currants.

These include the construction of drainage ditches in the mountainside to carry away any meltwater, new waterproof walls inside the entrance tunnel and moving the transformer station out of the tunnel to eliminate a heat source and make for easier maintenance.

Big pond of drainage water 12 meters away (on two sides of the station).

He's discovered a number of problems that can lurk: oversaturation of soil; tree branches hanging over a home that can damage roofs and allow pests access; broken or misaligned sprinklers that can lead to dry rot or termites; inefficient rain gutters that cause drainage problems; and lawn slopes that drain toward the house rather than away, setting the scene for flooding issues.

Water can enter a home and cause major damage if proper drainage, which takes water away from the home, isn't in place.

Soil should slope away from the home to facilitate drainage.