Drainage System Services in Georgia: Trusted for Over a Century

Everything Starts With Drainage

Ponding Water in Yard? Downspouts Dumping Water Near Home? Poor Grading? Soil Erosion & Wash-Out?

Poor drainage can lead to serious damage to your home. It’s critical that water is directed away from your foundation. When stormwater is allowed to pool around your structure, it can lead to a wet basement, increased hydrostatic pressure, and even the risk of wall failure over time.

Poor yard drainage is one of the most common, and most overlooked, causes of wet basements, musty crawl spaces and foundation damage. When water isn’t properly directed away from your home by Trotter it can saturate soil, increase pressure on foundation walls, and lead to cracks, basement moisture, and long-term structural issues.

In addition, poor drainage will also lead to cracked or sinking sidewalks, patios, and driveways, landscape washout and mold and mildew growth

This must be fixed. Trotter can help.

Need a Reliable Foundation Drainage Contractor in Georgia? Trust Trotter

At Trotter, we provide proven drainage solutions including french/gravity drains, catch basins, channel drains, swales, dry creek beds, concrete flumes, and full backfill restoration. We’ve been a trusted name in foundation drainage contractors in Georgia for over a century, and we can help you with your home or yard drainage issues.

We know that drainage systems can be complex. Every home and its topography are unique, which means the right solution is often a carefully engineered combination of drainage components that must work together properly to be effective.

With our experience and expertise, you can feel confident your home is protected.

Don’t let poor drainage turn into a costly structural problem. Reach out today.

How to Know You Need Drainage Systems Repair in Georgia

You may not be able to control when it rains or how much, but you can control how that water affects your property.

Without proper drainage, rainwater can collect around your home—leading to structural issues, damage to landscaping, increased pest activity, and a soggy, unusable yard.

Signs you may have poor drainage include:

Ponding water in a yard, due to poor drainage

Ponding Water / Water Draining Toward Your Home

If you’re seeing standing water, basement or crawlspace moisture, or signs of foundation stress, then you have a drainage problem that must be fixed to drain water away from your home.

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Water In Basement or Crawlspace

Once water starts to pool around your home, it’s only a matter of time before you begin seeing it inside your basement or crawlspace — and that’s a serious problem that requires professional foundation drainage solutions.

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Trotter Has Solutions.

Roof water should not be dumped into the backfill area. This water should be directed at least ten feet away from your home’s foundation.

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When drainage at doors is poor and the area can’t readily be re-guarded to provide surface drainage, channel drains can be used to improve drainage.

These drains come in various sizes from two inches to twelve inches and even larger.

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Catch basins are used where surface drainage cannot be readily achieved by grading, such as areas confined by retaining walls or due to plantings.

The area around the catch basin must be contoured to direct the water into the catch basin.

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We install drains from four inches up to forty-eight inches in diameter.

Many times we are able to install the smaller drains and customers can’t tell that we worked in their yard! We do very neat work.

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Swales are the best way to move large amounts of water away from your home.

If you have thick sod, we can usually cut the sod and replace it, and you will never know we were there, other than now the water runs away from your home rather than toward it.

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In areas that are too flat to use a swale, concrete flumes will move lots of water with very little slope.

Many times we will configure the flumes to work as a sidewalk and most people never realize they are part of the storm water drainage system.

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To put it simply, basements are built in a hole. After the basement walls are built, builders push soil in to fill the open space left between the basement walls and the banks of the excavation. This area that is filled in is called the “backfill.”

As time passes, this soil settles and can trap water against your basement walls. First it may lead to wet basements. Then, the basement walls gradually develop long horizontal cracks, and if ignored, eventually the walls collapse. Backfill settlement is the number one cause of wet basements and caved-in basement walls.

Warning: basement walls CAN collapse!

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This problem usually occurs during landscaping/grading and can lead to big problems. Beware of suggestions to apply exterior waterproofing in this situation. Termites can easily attack your house by coming up from the soil behind the waterproofing membrane.

Also, many times the area will continue to be a problem due to seepage from behind the veneer (brick, stucco, stone, etc.) from other areas. In our experience, a much better solution is to lower the grade in the problem area and direct the water away from the foundation.

In some rare cases, due to the neighboring yard’s elevation, the stud wall must be replaced with a masonry wall and then the exterior grade can be safely raised.