Drainage and Water Management

A French drain intercepts subsurface and surface water and carries it to a controlled outlet instead of letting it pool against the house.

We set the trench depth and slope to the actual grade of your lot, wrap the aggregate in filter fabric so the system does not silt up, and terminate at daylight wherever the topography allows.

A single downspout can put thousands of gallons a year within a few feet of your foundation. Splash blocks do not move that water far enough.

We run buried solid pipe from each downspout to a discharge point well away from the structure.

A pop-up emitter is the visible end of a buried drain line: it stays flush with the lawn until water pressure lifts the lid, then closes again.

It keeps the outlet from becoming a trip hazard, a mower casualty, or a nesting spot for rodents.

Where water cannot be moved by gravity — a low lot, a basement, a crawl space below the outlet elevation — it has to be pumped.

We set a sealed basin, install a pump sized to the inflow, and route the discharge far enough from the house that it does not recirculate back into the system.

Not every drainage problem needs a trench. Sometimes the fix is a catch basin in a persistent low spot, a swale redirected around the house, or a channel drain at a driveway apron.

We look at where water enters the lot, where it wants to go, and what is stopping it, then use the simplest system that actually solves it.

Waterproofing handles the water that reaches the structure despite good exterior drainage — seepage through a block wall, a wet corner of a basement, a crawl space that takes on water during heavy rain.

Interior systems collect and remove water; exterior systems keep it away from the wall. Which one is appropriate depends on access, wall type, and where the water is entering.

Soil settles against a foundation over time, and mulch beds get rebuilt higher every spring until the yard slopes toward the house instead of away from it.

Re-establishing positive slope in the first several feet around the structure is often the single highest-value drainage correction on the property.