Tallahassee Yard Drainage Drainage services in Tallahassee, FL
Tallahassee Yard Drainage covers every part of residential and commercial drainage across Tallahassee and the surrounding 35 miles. This page lists all 20 of them, with what each one is actually for, because the difference between a French drain and a regrade is the difference between fixing your problem and paying to move it.
Start here if water is standing
Diagnosis before hardware. These three explain what is actually happening under the lawn.
- Standing Water and Yard Flooding Three possible causes, and how a test hole and a level tell them apart.
- Clay Soil Drainage Solutions What the Red Hills clay is, and why it defeats advice written for sandy Florida.
- French Drain vs. Sump Pump One question decides it, and it is about your property rather than the hardware.
Moving water underground
The buried systems: collecting water, carrying it and releasing it somewhere safe.
- French Drain Installation The default fix on clay: a sloped trench of stone and pipe that gives water a way out.
- French Drain Repair Why one that used to work has stopped, and whether it is worth rebuilding.
- Catch Basin Installation A grated inlet at the low point, for water arriving faster than a trench can take it.
- Pop-Up Emitter Installation The outlet at the end of a run, and why an undersized one throttles everything.
- Sump Pump Installation For the lots and crawl spaces where there is nowhere lower for water to go.
- Underground Downspout Piping Several downspouts tied into one buried network instead of hose across the lawn.
- Downspout Drainage Extensions Getting roof water away from the foundation. The smallest job, often the biggest effect.
- Storm Drain Tie-Ins Connecting to a ditch or a stormwater pipe, and the permission that comes first.
Moving water on the surface
Reshaping the ground, and giving runoff a route it will follow without taking soil with it.
- Yard Regrading Reshaping the ground so water leaves. The cheapest real fix, when it is the right one.
- Drainage Swale Installation A shaped channel that carries surface water along a route somebody chose.
- Dry Creek Bed Installation A working swale finished in river rock, for where the fix has to be looked at.
- Erosion Control Slowing water down, or armouring the ground. Usually both, on a Red Hills slope.
Protecting what is built
Where standing water stops being a lawn problem and starts being a structural bill.
Particular situations
New builds, commercial sites, and the aftermath of a tropical system.
- New Construction Lot Drainage Compaction, a final grade that only meets the minimum, and builder splash blocks.
- Commercial Property Drainage Parking, ponds and loading areas, worked around the stormwater plan already on file.
- Post-Hurricane Drainage Repair What a tropical system does to drainage built for ordinary rain, and what comes next.
Not sure which one you need?
That is the normal state of affairs, and it is what the site visit is for. Describe where the water sits and how long it stays, and the diagnosis comes before any recommendation.
Site visits by appointment