Tag: Drainage

  • How French Drains Work and When Your Property Needs One

    How French Drains Work and When Your Property Needs One

    If water collects in your yard after every rainstorm, your foundation feels perpetually damp, or erosion keeps undoing your landscaping — your property may be telling you something. Drainage problems don’t fix themselves, and in the Bay Area’s heavy rainy seasons and the Eastern Sierra’s spring snowmelt, they tend to get worse fast. One of…

  • 5 Signs Your Property Needs Drainage Work (And What to Do About It)

    5 Signs Your Property Needs Drainage Work (And What to Do About It)

    If you’ve noticed puddles that don’t seem to go away, a soggy lawn that smells musty, or cracks creeping up your foundation walls, these are all signs your property needs drainage work. Poor drainage is one of the most common and most overlooked threats to residential properties across the Bay Area Peninsula. Left untreated, drainage…

  • San Mateo Drainage and Grading

    San Mateo Drainage and Grading

    We wrapped up our grading and drainage project in San Mateo this past week. The final project stats wee pretty wild: 150 LF of perforated drain pipe, 200 LF of solid drain pipe, 20 tons of material offhauled, and 20 tons of new aggregate base spread by hand for a new parking pad. This was…