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Price follows trench length, soil, access, pumps, discharge distance, and restoration — not a menu item called French drain. Local notes for Dallas–Fort Worth: Blackland and expansive clays that swell wet and shrink dry.
Wet when the sprinklers run is often a pressurized line. Wet only after rain is a path problem. Both together is common. Local notes for Dallas–Fort Worth: Blackland and expansive clays that swell wet and shrink dry.
Uphill discharge is a source, not a personality conflict. Intercept it before it reaches your slab. Local notes for Dallas–Fort Worth: Blackland and expansive clays that swell wet and shrink dry.
When daylight is illegal or physically gone, lift is the honest discharge. Local notes for Dallas–Fort Worth: Blackland and expansive clays that swell wet and shrink dry.
A French drain collects subsurface water in a trench. A yard drain collects surface water at a grate. They are not nicknames for the same product. Local notes for Dallas–Fort Worth: Blackland and expansive clays that swell wet and shrink dry.
If soil is moving, concentrated flow already exists. You did not pick it. Local notes for Dallas–Fort Worth: Blackland and expansive clays that swell wet and shrink dry.
A rear yard that disappears after rain is usually a bowl: fill, fences, and neighbor water with no exit. Local notes for Dallas–Fort Worth: Blackland and expansive clays that swell wet and shrink dry.
If the drive pitches to the door, every storm is a test the slab will lose. Local notes for Dallas–Fort Worth: Blackland and expansive clays that swell wet and shrink dry.
Water on the wall is property risk, not a backyard puddle. Stop feeding the structure before you talk about perimeter pipe. Local notes for Dallas–Fort Worth: Blackland and expansive clays that swell wet and shrink dry.
The strip between the house and the fence is narrow, shaded, and often the only route water has. Local notes for Dallas–Fort Worth: Blackland and expansive clays that swell wet and shrink dry.
Move water. Protect property.
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