Drainage Solutions in Burleson, TX

A french drain is a trench, a bed of washed gravel, a perforated pipe wrapped to keep the silt out, more gravel, and an outlet that daylight downslope or ties into a solid line. Installed right, it intercepts the water moving through the soil toward your foundation and gives it an easier path away. Installed wrong, in clay, it silts up and dies in a few years, which is why the details matter here: proper depth at the footing line, real gravel instead of backfilled clay, fabric that keeps fines out of the pipe, and cleanouts so the line can be serviced instead of replaced. Our french drain installation in Burleson is dug by the crew that does our pier work, to the same standard: measured falls, no bellies in the pipe, outlets you can find and check. The plate below is the profile we build, and the drainage plan for your yard comes out of the same elevation survey we run for foundation work, so the drain and the house are designed together.

Drainage is protective work: it defends the foundation you have and the repairs we make. Piers stop a house from dropping; drainage stops the moisture swings that try to move the parts that never dropped. When a pier job's readings show one wet side, we say plainly that the warranty protects the piered sections, and the drain protects everything else. It is also the service most likely to be the whole answer: houses with early signs and even moisture problems sometimes need drainage now and piers never. We would rather sell you the drain.

Expect the yard to look worked-on for a few weeks after a drain job: a settled trench line, reseeded or resodded grass over the run, and cleanouts capped flush where you can find them again. Clay trenches settle as they dry, and a good installer tells you that up front instead of letting you discover the shallow line across the lawn in August. We come back and top up a trench that settles beyond flush, because a drain you can trip over is a drain installed in a hurry.