Standing water, soggy spots, and water pooling against your foundation are the price of North Texas Blackland clay. We design and install french drains and yard drainage that move water away for good. Veteran-owned, fully insured.
A french drain is a gravel-filled trench with a perforated pipe that collects water and carries it away from where it pools — to a safe outlet like the street, a dry well, or a lower part of the lot.
It’s the most reliable way to deal with water that sits in a yard instead of draining. Done right, it’s buried, invisible, and quietly protects your lawn, beds, and — most importantly — your foundation for years. Done wrong (no fabric, wrong slope, no real outlet), it clogs and fails within a season. The difference is in the design and the install, which is exactly what we get right.
Our Blackland Prairie clay is the culprit. It’s dense and slow-draining, so when it rains, water can’t soak in — it runs across the surface and collects in low spots. Add the flat grading on a lot of newer Collin County builds and you get the classic North Texas problems:
The workhorse — a gravel-and-pipe trench that intercepts subsurface and surface water and routes it to a safe outlet. Ideal for soggy yards and side-yard runoff.
Catch basins and grates that swallow water from low spots, patios, and downspout zones before it pools.
Linear drains across driveways, walkways, and patio edges to stop sheet water cold.
Extending downspouts underground and re-grading so roof and yard water leaves the foundation, not collects at it.
We read your grade, downspouts, and low spots to trace the real water path — then design the fix and quote it in writing.
A drain is only as good as where it ends. We plan a real outlet (street, daylight, or dry well) so water actually leaves.
We dig to the right depth and set a continuous slope — the detail cheap installs skip.
Filter fabric, washed gravel, and perforated pipe assembled so the drain keeps flowing instead of silting up.
We backfill, re-grade, and restore the surface — sod or gravel — so the yard looks finished, not torn up.
We run water through it before we leave so you can see it work.
French drains are priced by the linear foot, and the number depends on the run length, the drain type, and how hard the digging is (rock, roots, utilities, slope). We assess your yard and quote it in writing — no guessing.
We install french drains and yard drainage across Collin County (McKinney, Allen, Prosper, Celina, Anna, Melissa) and our full-service Grayson County home base (Denison, Sherman, Van Alstyne, Pottsboro). Heavy clay is everywhere up here — we know how to move water off it.
We’ll walk your yard, find where the water actually goes, and put a drainage fix in writing — usually same day.
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French drains are priced per linear foot — the total depends on the run length, drain type, and digging difficulty. Use our french drain cost calculator for a ballpark, then get a free on-site assessment for an exact number.
If water stands in your yard for more than a day after rain, you have soggy spots that never dry, or water pools against your foundation, you likely need drainage. We’ll assess it free and tell you honestly whether a french drain, surface drains, or a regrade is the right fix.
It’s one of the best ways to. On Blackland clay, water pooling against a slab causes the soil to swell and shrink, which moves foundations. Routing that water away with proper drainage is far cheaper than foundation repair.
A properly installed french drain — with filter fabric, washed gravel, correct slope, and a real outlet — lasts many years. The ones that fail early are the cheap installs that skip the fabric or slope and silt up.
Yes. We backfill, re-grade, and restore the surface with sod or gravel so your yard looks finished, not like a construction site. We can sod the whole area at the same time.
Often, yes — it’s the smart order. We fix the water first, then lay fresh sod onto a yard that will actually stay healthy.
