Every service here is a piece of the same job: getting water off your lot to a place it can legitimately go. On Lexington's limestone and clay that starts with grading and downspouts, moves to French drains and catch basins where the surface cannot do it, and ends with a sump only where gravity has run out. The assessment tells you which pieces your lot needs and which it does not.
The Bluegrass grows famous grass and horses on a landscape that is, hydrologically, a little strange: thin soil over clay over dissolving limestone, drained partly by creeks and partly by underground channels. Here is what that means for the puddle in your side yard, with sources.
Read the guide →A French drain collects water that is sitting in or on the soil and gives it a gravity path to somewhere better. In Lexington that means getting through a silt loam cap into the clay below, holding fall across a nearly flat lot, and finding an outlet that is not a sinkhole.
French Drain Installation →Yard drainage is the whole picture: where rain lands, where the lot sends it, and where it gets stuck. Most Lexington yards need a combination of small moves - regrading, redirecting downspouts, a short drain, a swale - rather than one big trench.
Yard Drainage Solutions →The single biggest source of water at a Lexington foundation is the roof. A 2,000 square foot roof sheds well over a thousand gallons in an inch of rain, and four downspouts put all of it within two feet of the basement wall. Moving that water is the first job on almost every lot.
Downspout & Foundation Drainage →A sump pump is what you use when gravity has run out. In Lexington that is the flat lot with a low spot lower than the street, the finished basement with water at the cove joint, or the crawlspace that stays wet all spring on perched clay water.
Sump Pump Systems →Grading is the drainage fix that needs no pipe. Reshape the surface so water falls away from the house and along a shallow swale to an outlet, and a lot of Lexington drainage problems simply stop. It is the first thing we look at and the thing we recommend most.
Grading & Swales →A drain that used to work and stopped, or one that was installed and never worked, is a diagnosis problem before it is a digging problem. We find where the water is stuck - silted stone, crushed pipe, a buried outlet, a run with no fall - and fix that piece rather than starting over.
Drainage Repair →Some water cannot be graded away. A low spot in a driveway, a patio that slopes toward the door, the strip between a garage slab and the yard - those need a point collector. Catch basins and channel drains take surface water in at the exact spot it collects and pipe it away.
Catch Basins & Channel Drains →Send a few photos and a description of when it floods, and we will call you back to set up a free on-site look.
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