Landscape drainage
Effective stormwater management solutions.
Catch basins, sump pumps and downspout conversions to divert water away from your house.
Pinellas gets somewhere north of fifty inches a year, most of it between June and September, much of it in an hour. A lot of yards on the peninsula were graded decades ago for a smaller house and a bigger yard. Then came additions, pools, pavers and fences, and the water stopped going where it used to.
If a spot in the yard is still soft three days after a storm, that's not a lawn issue. Sitting water rots root systems, breeds mosquitoes, undermines slab edges and pushes moisture at the foundation.
What we install
Catch basins and channel drains
Grated inlets at the low points, piped to daylight or to a dispersal field. The standard fix for a yard that ponds in one or two known places.
French drains
Perforated pipe in a gravel trench wrapped in filter fabric, for broad saturated areas rather than a single puddle. Done right, it's invisible once the turf knits back.
Downspout extensions and burial
Roof runoff is the single biggest volume most homes deal with, and on a lot of houses it's discharging four feet from the slab.
Dry wells and dispersal
Where there's nowhere to daylight to, water goes into a buried chamber and percolates out over the following hours.
Regrading and swales
Sometimes the answer isn't pipe at all. Re-establishing fall away from the house solves more than people expect.
How we scope it
We walk the property, ideally within a day or two of rain so the problem is visible rather than described. We look at where water enters, where it collects, what the fall actually is, and where it's legally and physically able to discharge. Then you get a plan and a quote, not a guess.
Book this during the wet season
June through September is the worst time to have the problem and the best time to diagnose it. If you're reading this in February and remember a spot that flooded last summer, tell us where it was — we can still work with that.