Drainage Solutions in Houston, TX

Standing water is one of the most common calls Jose gets in Houston, and the heavy black clay soil here — the kind everyone just calls gumbo — is almost always the reason. That clay holds rain for days instead of letting it soak through, so low spots, side yards and areas near the foundation stay wet long after the storm has passed. It's an even bigger problem in older subdivisions from the 1970s through the 90s around Gulfton and Sharpstown, where side yards were graded flat and narrow to begin with and never had anywhere for water to go. A French drain, a downspout line moved away from the house, or simple regrading that gives water a real path off the property can turn a yard that floods every time into one that drains normally.

Jose looks at where the water is actually coming from and going before deciding what fixes it — sometimes it's roof runoff with nowhere to discharge, sometimes it's a low corner of the yard with no slope at all, and sometimes it's both. French drains and downspout trenches get dug to carry water where it needs to go instead of leaving it to find its own way across the lawn, and regrading resets the slope of a yard so gravity does the rest going forward. This isn't a patch job — it's built to actually solve the standing water instead of moving it a few feet over. A cotización sin compromiso comes after Jose sees the yard in person.