Fairfield County & Central Ohio
Water goes
where we
tell it.
Yard drainage, grading and excavation. If it's standing in your yard, running down your foundation wall, or cutting a channel through your lawn — that's what we get called for first.
Owner-operatedFixed price in writingYard put back, seeded
Sound familiar
You don't have a lawn problem.
You have a water problem.
Seed, sod and mulch are what people try first. They wash out because nothing under them changed. Here's what we get called about.
- Water still standing 24 hours after the rain stops
- Downspouts dumping right at the foundation
- Damp block walls, musty basement, sump pump never resting
- One soggy strip that ruts every time you mow it
- Mulch and topsoil washing across the driveway
- Erosion channels cut through the yard after storms
- Neighbor's water crossing your property line
- Gravel drive potholed and washboarded every spring
Five things we do every week.
This is the work we lead with and the work we're fastest at. All of it is water moving downhill on purpose — same crew, same trucks, every day.
01
Buried downspouts & emitters
Gutters collect thousands of gallons and drop it four inches from your footer. We take it underground and put it out where it can't come back.
4 IN. SOLID SDR-35
12–18 IN. COVER
PITCHED MIN. 1/8 IN. PER FT.
DAYLIGHT OR POP-UP EMITTER
02
French drains & curtain drains
For water already in the ground, or running at you from uphill. A curtain drain intercepts it before it reaches the house; a French drain pulls it out of the wet spot you've got.
4 IN. PERFORATED, SOCK OPTIONAL
#57 WASHED STONE BED
NON-WOVEN FABRIC, WRAPPED ALL SIDES
18–36 IN. DEPTH TO GRADE
03
Catch basins & yard inlets
Low spots that will never drain by grade get a basin and a piped outlet. Sediment drops in the sump instead of packing your line solid.
9 IN.–12 IN. GRATED BASIN
SEDIMENT SUMP BELOW OUTLET
TIED TO SOLID CARRIER MAIN
04
Grading, erosion repair & restoration
Most wet basements are a grade problem, not a foundation problem. We re-cut the fall around the house, fill the channels, and put the yard back so you'd never know we were there.
TARGET 6 IN. FALL IN FIRST 10 FT.
SCREENED TOPSOIL
SEED, STRAW OR EROSION BLANKET
SWALES CUT TO A REAL OUTLET
05
Gravel driveways & culverts
Drives fail because the water under them has nowhere to go. We fix the ditch and culvert first, then rebuild the base so it holds through spring.
GEOTEXTILE UNDER NEW BASE
#304 BASE, COMPACTED IN LIFTS
8 IN.–12 IN. HDPE CULVERT
DITCH LINE RE-CUT TO FLOW
Who shows up
The person who quotes it
is the person who digs it.
A lot of drainage bids get written by someone who never comes back. The job gets handed off, the crew that shows up has never seen your yard, and the first thing anyone reads about the water is a page of notes.
That doesn't happen here. The same person walks your property, writes the scope, and runs the job. If something turns up two feet down that changes the plan, you get a phone call while we're standing in the hole — not a line item on the invoice at the end.
If it doesn't move water, we come back. That's the whole warranty and it fits on one line.
In every job, no upcharge
- Utility locatesOUPS 811, before we dig
- Written scopeDepths, sizes, outlet
- Fixed priceDoesn't move
- Spoil hauled offNothing left in the yard
- RestorationTopsoil, seed, straw
- Water testRun before we leave
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Start to seed
How a job goes
Walk the water
We come out and find where water enters, where it sits, and where it can legally go. If we can see it during a rain, even better — call us while it's happening.
Scope and fixed price
In writing: pipe sizes, depths, slope, where it outlets, and the restoration included. One number. It doesn't move unless you change the scope.
Locates, then dig
OUPS 811 marked before a bucket touches dirt. Trench, bed, wrap, backfill, compact. Most residential jobs run one to three days.
Prove it, then restore
We run water through the system with you standing there. Then topsoil, seed and straw go back down before we pull off the property.
Raining right now?
Perfect. Call now.
Watching water actually move tells us more in ten minutes than a dry-day walk does in an hour. If you're looking at the problem this second, so should we.
Where we work
Fairfield County
and everything around it.
Home base is Fairfield County. We work the ring of counties around it — south and east Columbus, down into Hocking and Perry, west to Pickaway, north into Licking. Flat clay lots on one end of that map and hillside runoff on the other, and we dig in both every week.
Fairfield County
- Lancaster
- Pickerington
- Canal Winchester
- Baltimore
- Carroll
- Amanda
- Bremen
- Sugar Grove
- Thurston
- Millersport
- Lithopolis
- Pleasantville
South & east Franklin
- Groveport
- Obetz
- Reynoldsburg
- Blacklick
- Whitehall
- Brice
Licking County
- Newark
- Heath
- Hebron
- Buckeye Lake
- Pataskala
- Granville
Perry & Hocking
- Somerset
- New Lexington
- Junction City
- Thornville
- Logan
- Rockbridge
- Laurelville
Pickaway County
- Circleville
- Ashville
- Commercial Point
Outside the list? Call anyway — we travel for the right job.
Straight answers
What does drainage work actually cost?
Most residential jobs land between $2,500 and $12,000. Burying a couple of downspout runs to daylight starts around $1,200. A full French drain system on a typical quarter-acre lot usually runs $4,500 to $9,000 depending on depth, length and where we can outlet. You get a fixed number in writing before anything gets dug.
Will you tear up my whole yard?
The trench is narrow — usually about a foot wide. We stage spoil on plywood or in the trailer, backfill and compact, then put screened topsoil, seed and straw back over the whole run. Give it one mowing season and you won't find the line.
Do I need a permit?
Depends on the township and where the water ends up. If we're touching a road ditch, a culvert, or anything in the county right-of-way, a permit is involved and we handle it. We tell you before you sign, not after.
Where does the water go?
Somewhere it's allowed to go — a natural low point on your property, a road ditch, a storm outlet, or a pop-up emitter far enough out to stay gone. We don't pipe water onto a neighbor's lot, and we won't take a job that requires it.
Can you come out during a storm?
Yes, and we'd rather. Watching water actually move tells us more in ten minutes than a dry-day walk does in an hour. If it's pouring and you're standing in it, that's the right time to call.
Do you do patios, walls, fencing or other outdoor work?
Yes. Drainage and grading is what we're known for and what fills the schedule, but we've built plenty of patios, retaining walls, fences and driveways. Every patio and wall lives or dies on the drainage under it, so that part we're not guessing at. Ask — right job at the right number, we'll take it.
Get it looked at
Show us the water.
Fastest way is a phone call. Second fastest is this form with two or three photos of the wet spot — we can usually tell you over the phone whether it's a grading fix or a piping fix.
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