Our foundation drainage installation moves rain away from your basement walls. We choose each fix by following where the water actually goes around your house.
How we move the water
Most yards need more than one fix, because water usually reaches the foundation from more than one direction. The roof, the slope of the yard and the sump pump can all be sending water to the same wall.
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When the ground slopes back toward the house, every heavy rain sends water straight to your foundation walls.
We bring in soil, build the ground back up against the house and shape it to the county's minimum slope or steeper. That sends the water out into the yard instead of down beside the wall.
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A single downspout can carry the rain from a big section of your roof, so where it ends matters more than most people think.
We extend each downspout far enough into the yard, past any low spot, that the water drains away from the house and cannot run back toward the foundation.
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Some yards hold water no matter how the soil is shaped, like a narrow side yard between two houses or a slope that sends a neighbor's runoff your way.
A French drain is a gravel-filled trench with a perforated pipe along the bottom. It catches the water underground and carries it to a part of the yard where it can drain away.
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A sump pump only helps if the water it pumps out stays out.
We run the discharge line out past the point where the water could drain back to the house, so the pump is not moving the same water twice.
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Johnson County's residential foundation guideline requires a drain in every window well.
If the well has no drain, we install one, and if the drain is clogged, we clear it. Rain then soaks down through the gravel instead of rising against the window.
Free estimate
In the message box, tell us where the water collects and which side of the house it is on.
A photo of what concerns you is not required, but it helps us see the problem before we get there.
Worth knowing
A drainage fix only works if the water has somewhere lower to go. These points decide how we send it there.
Johnson County's residential foundation guideline calls for the ground to drop at least 6 inches in the first 10 feet out from the wall.
Sometimes that slope is not enough on its own, like when a neighbor's yard drains toward yours. Then we also extend the downspouts or put in a French drain.
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