landscaping drainage in Rockville MD

Have you been noticing any of the following in or around your property?

  • Areas of your property that are soft, muddy or soggy underfoot, more often than not.
  • Areas of yellow grass, or shrubs and trees with yellow, shriveled leaves.
  • Signs of erosion after a heavy rain.
  • Or pools of standing water that linger for days after the rain stops.

If you see one or more of those, then it sounds like you’ve got a landscaping drainage issue on your Rockville, MD property.

Although all of the above are problematic, the worst, by far, is standing water, especially if it’s pooling quite close to your home.

In those cases, you can bet that some of that water is seeping into your foundation. Ultimately, it will lead to cracking which will cause you no end of trouble and lead to expensive repair bills, but that’s not the worst of it.

If your home has a basement, as many in the area do, then the soil all around your foundation is supersaturated with water and exerting tremendous amounts of pressure on your basement walls.

In the medium term, that will lead to cracks in your basement walls and leaks. Longer term, if the problem isn’t addressed, it will cause your basement walls to start caving in, and at that point, the repair bills will be staggering.

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Don’t think you’re out of the woods if the water is pooling at a safe distance from your house though.

If you’ve got a septic system, and the water is collecting in or around your drain field, it will cause your home septic system to malfunction and could lead to raw sewage backing up in your house. Not a pretty sight.

Even if that’s not the case though, standing water is a breeding ground for mosquitoes and bacteria that poses health risks to your family.

Fortunately, all of those problems can be avoided by installing a robust landscaping drainage system on your Rockville, MD property.

Note that unless you had your home custom built, you may already have one and not realize it. It’s possible that one of the home’s former owners did a bit of landscaping and had a landscaping drainage system installed on the Rockville, MD property as part of the work he did.

If that’s the case, the reason you’re experiencing trouble now is likely that over time, the system has become clogged or damaged. Those are easy problems to fix. We locate the existing landscaping drainage system on your Rockville, MD problem, isolate the source of the clog or damage, repair that, and voila! Your problem goes away.

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We can’t know that for sure until we send one of our seasoned engineers out to your property to inspect it. Rest assured though, that whatever we find, we’ll give you a full report and a professional recommendation, and if needs be, can draft plans to design and built a landscaping drainage system on your Rockville, MD that will fix the problem once and for all.

Of course, our formal recommendation will include a free, no obligation estimate so you’ll have a clear understanding of exactly what it will take to put the problem behind you once and for all.

This, however, brings us to another, related topic. How much landscaping do you see yourself doing on your property?

If you’re like most people, you’ve probably got at least a few ideas in mind, and that’s the funny thing about landscaping. It’s addicting! Once you start, you may not want to stop. The more ideas you have on your wish list, the more you could benefit from the creation of a master landscaping design document.

First, by having all your landscaping goals in one place, you can compare them to each other to make sure that none of the individual elements clash with each other, aesthetically. That’s important because it keeps you from installing landscaping features that don’t mesh well, only to have to rip them out later and rethink.

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Second, it allows you to spot projects with dependencies, like our drainage system installation example described above. It just makes sense to do that first, before you get busy planting and making other improvements.

Finally, it allows you to spot large projects that would be budget busting, and break them into smaller, more budget-friendly sub-components, which allows you to make steady progress toward your goals.

Once you sit down and start putting your wish list together, you may find that you can’t visualize some of the particulars. It’s a common problem, and we can help too. If you’re struggling with that part of it, spend some time checking out the extensive photos section on our website. Not only will it give you tons of great ideas for your own project, but it’ll also give you an opportunity to see the quality of our work for yourself.

We’ve been proudly serving the region for more than twenty-five years, and we’ve built our reputation by exceeding the expectations of every client we work with. We’d love to add you to our growing family, so when you’re ready to begin, just give us a call. Let’s start turning your dreams into reality!