landscaping drainage in Bethesda MD

Do you have a problem with standing water in your lawn after a heavy rain? If so, it’s a bigger issue than you might realize. Sounds like you could benefit from the addition of a landscaping drainage system on your Bethesda, MD property!

There are a number of possible causes to the problem, and we’ll outline the major ones below. Odds are that one of these will accurately describe your situation:

Possibility #1 – Prior Landscaping, Drainage System Non-Functional

It’s possible that one of the previous owners of your home did a bit of landscaping. If that’s the case, it’s probable that whatever company did the work installed a landscaping drainage system on your Bethesda, MD property, but in the years since the landscaping was done, that system has become damaged or clogged, which is leading to the drainage issue you’re experiencing right now.

If this is the case, the problem is fairly easy to solve. It’s just a matter of locating the landscaping drainage system on your Bethesda, MD property, identifying the source of the blockage or damage, and addressing that.

If you’re not sure whether this describes your situation or not, we can send one of our experienced landscapers to your property to survey and assess the situation, and let you know for sure.

Possibility #2 – Prior Landscaping, No Drainage System Installed

This is similar to the first possibility, but in this instance, for whatever reason, no landscaping drainage was installed on your Bethesda, MD property. It’s unfortunate, but it does sometimes happen.

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In this case, assuming you’re happy with the landscaping work that has already been done, we can design a drainage system and install it retroactively, with minimal impact on the existing landscaping.

Possibility #3 – No Prior Landscaping, No Drainage System Installed

If the previous owners didn’t do any landscaping work, then it’s unlikely they bothered to install a landscaping drainage system on your Bethesda, MD property, which is the reason you’re having trouble now.

In that case, the solution is simple. We can design and install a system for you, without having to worry about running afoul of any existing landscaping, since there isn’t any.

Even better, if you plan on doing additional landscaping work on the property later on, installing a robust drainage system is a great first project to embark on, because it will set the stage for all the landscaping projects you have in mind down the road.

This brings us to another topic, related to the above. The importance of the master landscaping design document. We’ll have more to say about that in just a moment, but before we do, let’s talk a bit more about this drainage problem you’re having.

If you’ve got standing water somewhere on your property, it’s a problem, to be sure, but some flavors of the problem are more severe than others.

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For instance, if you have standing water quite close to your home, that’s incredibly bad, because that water is undoubtedly seeping into and causing damage to your foundation.

If you’ve got a basement, the problem is even worse, because the soil around your house is undoubtedly supersaturated with water. That increases its weight exponentially, which exerts tremendous pressure on the walls of your basement.

Leave that unchecked long enough, and it will cause your basement walls to start to crack and leak, ultimately leading to them caving in, creating a nightmare scenario for you that will cost you tens of thousands of dollars to fix.

Even if the water is pooling at a safe distance from your home though, it’s still a problem for a number of reasons, including the fact that:

  • Sans proper drainage, you’ll be facing steady soil erosion
  • The pooled water reduces the amount of useable space you have to work with in your yard
  • In addition to that, the pooled water will serve as a breeding ground for mosquitoes and a variety of bacteria, which can be a genuine health hazard.

All that to say, whether the water is collecting close to your home or quite far from it, it’s still a problem.

Now, about that master landscaping design document. This is simply a centralized document into which all of your landscaping aims and goals are fed. There are some compelling reasons to consider creating such a document including:

  • It enables you to check the various landscaping elements you have in mind against each other, to ensure that they all hang together, creating a cohesive aesthetic that’s pleasing to the eye.
  • And it allows you to prioritize your landscaping projects in a way that makes sense, for example, starting with a robust drainage system so you don’t have to rip later landscaping out to install it down the road.
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Of course, if you don’t plan on doing much in the way of landscaping on your property, then such a document is not necessary, but if you’re like most people, once you start making changes and improvements, one project inspires another, and before you know it, you’ve got a long and growing list of things you’d like to do.

If and when that happens, the master design document can save you time and money, in addition to keeping your organized and help you break larger projects into smaller, budget-friendly sub-projects that will see you making steady progress toward your goals.

With more than twenty-five years in the business, we can help you put the design document together, and help you achieve all your landscaping goals, whatever they might be. If you can dream it, we can design and build it!