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The first visit is the product. Walkthrough, sources, elevations, downspouts, collection and discharge planning, a diagram, a proposal. Local notes for Houston: Gulf Coast prairie clay that accepts water slowly and holds it.
Water follows fall. Your eye from the porch is not a level. Local notes for Houston: Gulf Coast prairie clay that accepts water slowly and holds it.
Deck runoff plus splash can overwhelm a single area drain. Linear collection at the low edge is usually the capture. Local notes for Houston: Gulf Coast prairie clay that accepts water slowly and holds it.
Pavers and slabs are roofs laid on the ground. They shed. If they shed toward the house, the door pays. Local notes for Houston: Gulf Coast prairie clay that accepts water slowly and holds it.
Ruts and compacted tire lines become miniature swales that hold water against the crown of the grass. Local notes for Houston: Gulf Coast prairie clay that accepts water slowly and holds it.
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 Houston: Gulf Coast prairie clay that accepts water slowly and holds it.
Uphill discharge is a source, not a personality conflict. Intercept it before it reaches your slab. Local notes for Houston: Gulf Coast prairie clay that accepts water slowly and holds it.
When daylight is illegal or physically gone, lift is the honest discharge. Local notes for Houston: Gulf Coast prairie clay that accepts water slowly and holds it.
Some properties do not need a trench. They need the ground to slope the right way. Local notes for Houston: Gulf Coast prairie clay that accepts water slowly and holds it.
Sheet flow rides hardscape. A linear drain interrupts it. The conveyance still has to leave. Local notes for Houston: Gulf Coast prairie clay that accepts water slowly and holds it.
A basin is a collection point, not the whole system. The grate has to sit at the true low point. Local notes for Houston: Gulf Coast prairie clay that accepts water slowly and holds it.
No fall to the street is not a reason to guess a longer trench. It is a pump conversation. Local notes for Houston: Gulf Coast prairie clay that accepts water slowly and holds it.
Move water. Protect property.
A Drainage Pro Property Water Analysis finds where water comes from, where it collects, and the right way to send it away from the house.