Quality Drainage Systems

Tropical Storm Frances, 1998. Tropical Storm Allison, 2001. Hurricane Ike 2008. Plus, uncounted and unnamed thunderstorms that sweep in without warning and dump five to six inches of rain in a single afternoon.

Houston has a drainage problem and it’s a little scary when you look at a list that contains some of the reasons why. If for no other reason than these naturally occurring and unpredictable weather patterns, you need a quality drainage system. It protects your property, your home and your family.

Exterior Worlds installs quality drainage systems that are all-encompassing. We address all drainage issues on your property including proper grading, the engineering analysis that creates positive drainage away from structures. Our properly-designed drainage systems also take into account your neighbors’ lots so that your drainage doesn’t create problems for them.

We believe that the right number of drains is an important element of a quality drain system. By using enough drains, we are able to keep your landscape as flat as possible. With too few drains, surfaces have to be sharply pitched so that they flow into the few drains that are installed. Look at a Wal-Mart parking lot and you’ll see what we’re talking about.

Our drainage solutions are site-specific. For drainage problems around garden beds, one solution that we have found works well is to raise the beds, which lifts your plants out of the soggy soil. Sometimes we find that the problem is the soil. Houston’s clay soil is famous for being hard to cultivate and that’s before years of construction have compacted it. Our Houston lawn service crew helps that condition with a regular aeration program.

Drainage systems should have little negative visual impact. We integrate downspouts and gutters with the architecture of your house. If we have to use deck drains, we use specially-designed covers, usually made of metal, brass or stone, that blend with the look of your patio or deck design. We fill French drains and channel drains with appropriate decorative gravel or stones. As part of your landscape’s infrastructure, the drain system should work beneath the surface and without you having to make note of it.

Speaking of no negative impact, we are adamant that our quality drainage systems be installed with no harm to trees. Unfortunately, we are called in from time to time to correct the problem of stressed trees after a drainage contactor has damaged the root systems. We think tree preservation begins before you move an inch of dirt. Trees are too valuable to your property and too expensive to replace to treat this issue any other way.

Our crews also work hard to avoid harm to all vegetation in your landscape design. Our goal is for your lawn to be back to normal in two to three weeks after the installation. We think that’s one of the defining qualities of a top-notch job—that the grass shows no disrupting lines where the pipe was laid within a relatively short period of time.

Protect your valuables—life and property—with a quality drainage system from Exterior Worlds. And let it rain!