Landscape Drainage Solutions

Your Solution For Standing Water, Puddles In Your Yard, Mud, Erosion and more. Our Landscaping Drainage Solutions Solve Your Lawn’s Water Issues.

Do puddles plague your yard after it rains? Does your lawn remain soggy for days no matter how much the sun comes out?

Poor drainage not only makes your yard a muddy mess, it can lead to other bigger issues like flooding, erosion, mosquito infestations, yard smells, and damage to your home’s foundation over time. No one wants to worry about these nuisance issues or deal with standing water problems year after year.

Luckily, there is an easy solution – proper drainage installation. Fuller Property Solutions can assess your unique yard’s drainage problems and design a customized system to fit your space and budget. We’ll handle the whole process from start to finish, whether it’s french drains, catch basins, pop up drains or another option that works best.

Contact us today to schedule a consultation. We’ll evaluate your yard’s current drainage, talk through solutions, and provide a quote so you know exactly what to expect cost-wise. There’s no obligation to move forward if you’re just exploring options. See why hundreds of homeowners have chosen us to solve their ongoing water woes. Our superior drainage systems keep yards dry permanently.

 

Landscaping Drains for Optimal Lawn Water Management

As experienced drainage contractors, we install several types of drains to effectively redirect water away from properties and prevent flooding, erosion, and foundation damage. Proper drainage is critical for protecting real estate investments and creating enjoyable living spaces, which is why we handle drainage system planning, equipment selection, and installation for residential and commercial properties. Read on to learn about the main drain types we strategically place to optimize water redirection and absorption based on your property’s unique needs.

Useful Pop Up Drains Divert Water to More Suitable Areas

Pop up drainage emitters are useful for diverting excess water from pooling in undesirable areas to more suitable locations on your property. As the name suggests, these small drains “pop up” above ground level when water flows through them. They then release the water to surrounding zones better equipped to absorb runoff without flooding issues or foundational damage.

Key benefits of professionally installed pop up drainage systems include:

  • Diverting water away from flooded areas: Pop up emitters transport water away from flooded driveways, patios, walkways, and lawns to reduce standing water accumulation.
  • Releasing water to better absorption zones: The emitters redirect runoff to rock beds, drained soil zones, retention ponds, or storm sewers better able to handle excess water flow.
  • Less clogging than old-fashioned drains: These smart drainage systems are less prone to clogging from leaves, sediment, and other debris compared to standard grate drains.
  • Easy clean outs if clogged: While less likely to clog than old drains, debris buildup can occasionally prevent water flow. Fortunately, homeowners can easily clean out pop up emitters to restore proper functioning.

With strategic planning and property analysis, we determine optimal pop up drain locations to transport water from flood-prone areas into designated drainage zones.

French Drains: An Affordable Flooding Solution

French drains offer an affordable and reliable solution for properties with flooding and standing water issues. These ingenious drainage systems consist of trenches filled with gravel, perforated piping, landscape fabric, and soil. During heavy rains or snow melts, water filters through the fabric and gravel, entering the pipes which then redirect runoff away from your home’s foundation or flooded region.

French drains provide multiple property enhancing and protective benefits:

  • Flood and standing water prevention: French drains collect saturated groundwater and surface runoff, transporting it away from the drainage site to prevent flooding and water-related foundation damage.
  • Groundwater level management: The perforated pipes remove excess groundwater to lower water tables underneath your property for enhanced structural stability and mold growth prevention.
  • Affordable drainage solution: French drains cost significantly less to install than more complex drainage systems yet still resolve persistent moisture problems.
  • Curb appeal for selling: Home buyers greatly favor yards with effective drainage over swampy lots which detract from curb appeal. Installed French drains indicate the property won’t easily flood.

With laser-levels and soil analysis, our technicians expertly map drainage requirements to develop an optimized French drain design for managing your property’s water removal needs.

Catch Basins: Customized Drainage Collection Systems

Catch basins provide customized underground storage zones to collect excess stormwater runoff. Also called storm drain inlets, these water-trapping pits connect to drainage pipes that redirect accumulated liquid away from the basin location. Catch basins strategically collect runoff from gutters, driveways, parking lots, walking paths, and other water shedding structures.

Important catch basin benefits include:

  • Preventing water buildup in problem areas: Catch basins placed along gutters, pavements, yards, and slopes collect and transport runoff water through attached drainage pipes to prevent flooding in those locations.
  • Protecting foundations from moisture damage: Water seeping into soil alongside your property’s foundation gets transported away through an interconnected catch basin drainage system. This keeps foundations drier and more structurally sound while preventing mold growth.
  • Open or closed design: Our technicians install open catch basins allowing visibility and debris removal or closed systems concealed underneath manhole lids if appearance matters.
  • Handling heavy precipitation: Properties with grading issues plagued by heavy rains require robust catch basin drainage to capture and redirect resulting heavy runoff flow through attached outflow pipes.

We optimize catch basin utility through exact placement based on natural runoff flow alongside structures needing protection from moisture damage.

Dry Wells Manage Water Drainage in Flooded Areas

Dry wells provide an underground reservoir for collecting and dispersing stormwater runoff from gutters, French drains, driveways, and saturated lawns. Unlike catch basin systems, dry wells absorb rather than pipe away excess liquid. We excavate drainage holes filled with gravel and permeable fabric designed to capture surface water and flooded groundwater before releasing it slowly into surrounding soils.

Advantages of professionally installed dry well drainage systems include:

  • Flood prevention through water dispersion: Dry wells absorb sudden surges of water from flash storms, rapid snow melts, and overly moist lawns to prevent flooding and allow slower absorption by soils.
  • Erosion protection: By collecting erosive rapid water flows and allowing slower ground dispersion, dry wells protect against soil erosion on slopes, trails, and bare land patches.
  • Percolation into soil: Water collects in the dry well’s underground rock-filled hole, slowly draining outward through punctured fabric into soils instead of basement foundations or waterlogged yards.
  • Drainage management: Dry wells placed strategically alongside flooded structures and ponded yard zones serve as an effective drainage management solution by dispersing rather than diverting excess water.

We carefully analyze property terrain contours, soil types, and flood patterns to determine optimal dry well locations for enhancing water drainage and preventing erosion and moisture damage.

Our Comprehensive Drainage System Installation Process

At our professional drainage company, we handle all stages of customized drainage system planning, installation, and maintenance including initial evaluations, equipment needs analysis, strategic layout planning, ditch digging and materials placement, system testing, property restoration, and follow-up inspections. Here is an overview of what to expect as we expertly transform your property’s water management capacity:

Site Analysis And Needs Evaluation

The process starts by thoroughly evaluating your land’s unique drainage requirements and vulnerabilities. This involves water dispersion mapping, runoff flow calculations, soil percolation tests, and slope analysis. We also discuss your moisture problems, flood risks, erosion issues, and foundation concerns while identifying drainage goals. The customized analysis determines optimal system types and component placements.

Technical Design And Equipment Selection

Next, we utilize proprietary software to create a customized drainage system layout maximizing water collection and redirection efficiency. Precise 2D and 3D scaled schematics map locations for catch basins, French drains, manifold lines, dry wells, emitter placement, runoff redirection zones, and pipe routes. We combine drainage science with landscape architecture standards for an optimized moisture management blueprint.

Additionally, our team specifies needed materials including basin containers, gravel, landscape fabric composites, perforated ducting, emitter models, trench dimensions, and pipe grades. Equipment selection suits your property’s exact drainage requirements for superior functioning.

Efficient Installation And Construction

With the strategic plans finalized, our crew mobilizes to your property for efficient system installation using advanced trenching machinery coupled with precision landscaping techniques. We execute the drainage plans with care to disturb as few existing structures as possible while optimizing water transport functionality. The process involves digging precise basin pits and drain trenches, installing pipes and emitters, backfilling with gravel, enclosing lines in fabric, and restoring landscape contours.

Testing And Inspection

Before completing a new drainage system, we thoroughly test functionality by flooding the surrounding zones and confirming proper water collection and redirection. Highly precise laser level measurement confirms optimal runoff flow into basin collectors and away from your property’s flood zones. The crew double checks emitter positioning and makes any final alignment adjustments needed to achieve full drainage optimization.

Site Restoration And Renewal

After new drainage component installation, our technicians thoroughly clean the entire work zone while smoothly restoring landscape features. We remove all excess materials and debris before returning pathways, turf layers, plants, patio blocks, and mulch to their original beauty. The process concludes with further functionality confirmations before gathering equipment and departing your renewed property upgraded with ideal drainage capabilities.

Follow-Up Monitoring And Maintenance

Even after drainage system installation, we remain available to revisit your property and confirm everything still functions properly after landscape settling and freeze/thaw shifts. As needed, we can assess and improve drainage flows by adjusting basin catch points, clearing blocked exterior fabric perforations, or further optimizing pipe alignments. Proactive system monitoring prevents flooding recurrence and foundation weakness.

Additionally, we educate clients on best practices for maintaining drainage system integrity like routinely clearing leaves from drain covers and preventing soil/mulch buildup on fabric. Proper drainage upkeep retains long-term home value while preventing water-related infrastructure deterioration.

Transform Your Property’s Drainage Capacity

As demonstrated above, we skillfully install various drainage systems with water management optimalization as the top priority. If your property suffers from flooding, erosion, soggy soil, or moisture damage, rely on our drainage expertise to redirect and disperse excess water. We handle all aspects from project design to years-later monitoring to prevent recurring issues. With an optimized drainage system from our seasoned contractors protecting your property’s stability and value, you can better enjoy living and entertaining in your enhanced outdoor zones without worrying about flooding risks, constant muck, or waterway erosion. Contact us today to start your drainage planning and installation process!

What makes Fuller Property Solutions Different?

We always put the needs of our customers first. Our services are of the highest caliber and are always carried out to the highest standard. Our team at Fuller Property Solution is dedicated to providing prompt and courteous landscaping near you that is tailored to your specific requirements and preferences while also being delivered with a smile.

Customers first, a positive attitude, treating everyone and everything with respect, and having fun along the way have been the cornerstones of our company since the beginning. To sum up our business values and our ongoing commitment to our clients, we use the acronym “C.A.R.E. – Customers Are Really Everything.”