landscaping drainage in North Potomac MD

You wouldn’t have purchased your home if there weren’t a number of things you loved about it. Unfortunately, some problems aren’t readily apparent until you’ve lived on the property for a while. One of those issues is drainage. It’s a fairly common problem, resulting from the lack of a properly functioning landscaping drainage system on your North Potomac, MD property.

Typically, you’ll know you have a drainage issue if you see any of the following:

  • Tracks worn into the ground marking the flow of water running downhill
  • Soil erosion
  • Areas of yellow grass, unhealthy trees and plants that are getting much more water than they need
  • Areas of your yard that are often soggy and squishy underfoot, even when it hasn’t rained in a while
  • Pools of standing water that linger for days after a hard rain

All of these are bigger issues than you might think, but of course, pools of standing water that linger for days are the worst of the lot, especially in cases where the standing water collects quite near your home.

If that’s the case, then you can bet that some of that water is seeping into, and causing serious damage to your foundation, which will ultimately lead to a repair bill that sets you back thousands of dollars.

It gets worse if you have a basement, because standing water means that the soil around your house has already absorbed as much moisture as it can, which means that the soil pressed against the walls of your basement is significantly heavier than it otherwise would be.

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That, in turn, means that it’s exerting tremendous amounts of pressure on the walls of your basement. Left unchecked, it will eventually cause cracks in your basement walls and leaking, which will get worse over time until the walls start caving in. At that point, your repair bills will be astronomical!

Of course, even if the water is pooling some distance from your home, it’s still a problem because:

  • It reduces the amount of usable space in your yard, which means less room for landscaping, entertaining and outdoor enjoyment
  • It’s a breeding ground for mosquitoes
  • And it’s a breeding ground for a variety of microbes which are hazardous to the health of your family.

A well-designed landscaping drainage system on your North Potomac, MD property will fix all of that.

Note that it’s entirely possible that you already have a landscaping drainage system on your North Potomac, MD property, especially if a previous owner did any landscaping work before you bought the place.

If that’s the case, it may be that over the course of time, that system has become clogged or damaged, resulting in the drainage issues you’re seeing now. That’s a simple fix. We just find the existing system, isolate the problem and fix it. Problem solved.

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Sometimes though, a previous owner may have added landscaping elements without attending to the drainage issues. In those cases, it may be possible for us to design a landscaping drainage system for your North Potomac, MD property that can be installed retroactively, with minimal impact to the existing landscaping.

It may be the case, however, that such a solution is impractical or unworkable. Either way, after we survey and assess your situation, we’ll let you know what we find and map out the options for you so you can decide the optimal approach to take.

Here’s another point to consider: How much landscaping work do you plan on doing?

If you have a long list of improvements you’d like to make to your property, then you would almost certainly benefit from the creation of a master landscape design document. We can help you create it.

In simplest terms, it’s a document that captures all your landscaping goals and ambitions under a single umbrella, but there’s more to it than just that.

Once you’ve got your document fully fleshed out, you’ll be able to break your landscaping goals into smaller, budget-friendly sub-projects that will enable you to make steady progress toward your goals.

In addition to that, you’ll be able to compare each landscaping element you’re interested in adding to all the others so you can ensure that everything you want to add or change hangs together to create a cohesive whole that’s aesthetically pleasing.

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Absent this document, we’ve seen many instances where home owners dropped their last piece of landscaping into place only to discover that it some other element clashed horribly with it, requiring them to have to strip it out and rethink. Not good, and a problem that’s easy to avoid!

Finally, and perhaps most compellingly, the document will allow you to spot dependencies, which is to say, projects that depend on the completion of other projects on the list. For instance, if you know you want to do some planting in an area that’s currently persistently waterlogged, it makes sense to start by designing and installing a robust landscaping drainage system on your North Potomac, MD property.

In other words, it allows you to better prioritize your list and march toward your goals in a systematic, methodical way.

Of course, if you only plan to make a few minor cosmetic landscaping additions, then such a document will be of limited value, but if you’re like most people, once you get started making improvements, you’ll get the fever for it and want to do more.

Whatever your landscaping ambitions are, we’re just a phone call away. Give us a call when you’re ready to get started.