Tallahassee Yard Drainage Services in Tallahassee

Every service, with its own page

• French drain installation

  A gravel trench and perforated pipe that pulls water out of the ground and carries it somewhere it is allowed to go.

• French drain repair

  A French drain that used to work and now does nothing has usually failed in one of four ways. Finding which one decides whether it is a cleaning or a dig.

• Standing water in the yard

  A puddle that forms in the same spot every storm is telling you exactly where the problem is. The work is figuring out why it forms there.

• Clay soil drainage

  Red loam on top, clay-rich subsoil underneath. Water gets through the first and stops at the second. Fixing a soggy Red Hills yard starts with knowing that.

• Yard grading

  The cheapest drain is the one you never have to bury. Regrading reshapes the surface so rain runs away from the house and off the lot the way it should have from the start.

• Drainage swales

  A swale is a shallow, gently sloped channel in the lawn. It moves a summer storm's worth of surface water across a yard without a single buried part to clog.

• Catch basins

  When water collects in one spot and stays there, a catch basin gives it a door. The grate collects it at the surface and solid pipe carries it away.

• Downspout drainage

  Every downspout that dumps beside the slab is pouring a roof's worth of rain into the soil your foundation sits on. This is usually the cheapest fix on the list.

• Pop-up emitters

  The green cap in the lawn that lets a buried pipe release water. When it fails, everything upstream of it fails too.

• Dry wells

  A dry well stores storm water underground and lets it soak away slowly. In the right soil it is an elegant outlet. In the wrong soil it is a buried bucket.

• Dry creek beds

  A dry creek bed is a swale lined with river rock. It carries storm water where grass would wash out, and on a dry day it looks like it was always there.

• Channel and trench drains

  Where water runs across a hard surface toward a garage, a door or a patio, a channel drain catches the whole width of the flow in a single line.

• Foundation drainage

  The house is the one thing in the yard that must stay dry. Foundation drainage moves water away from it before it can soak the soil the slab rests on.

• Yard sump pumps

  Most drainage works by gravity. On a flat lot, or a yard lower than the street, gravity has nowhere to send the water. A pump lifts it out.

• Erosion control

  A gully in a Red Hills yard gets deeper every storm. Filling it is not enough. The water that cut it has to be slowed down or sent somewhere else.

• Retaining wall drainage

  Most retaining walls that lean, bulge or crack are failing because of water, not weight. Wet soil behind a wall pushes far harder than dry soil.

• Driveway drainage

  A driveway is a large, hard, sloped surface. Every drop that lands on it arrives somewhere fast, usually the garage, the lawn edge or the street.

• Pool deck drainage

  A pool deck is a flat hard surface next to a hole full of water, often next to a house. When drainage around it fails, it fails in three directions at once.

• Crawl space drainage

  Water under a house evaporates up into the floor framing. The fix almost always starts outside, and only sometimes needs a drain and pump underneath.

• Patio drainage

  A patio added after the house was built often blocks the path the yard's water used to take. The water does not stop coming. It just stops at the patio.