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Yard Drainage & French Drains in Chattanooga, TN

Soggy yard, wet crawlspace, water at the foundation? We design and build drainage systems that move the water where it belongs — permanently.

  • Free on-site assessments — we walk the water with you
  • Fixed written quotes; no allowances, no surprises
  • Fabric-wrapped stone and verified slope on every drain
  • Discharge designed first — the water always has somewhere to go
  • Most installs done in 1–3 days, lawn restored
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1–3 days

typical install, lawn restored when we leave

Fixed

written quotes designed from the discharge backward

$2–8K

typical French drain range; downspout systems from $800

Local

Chattanooga-based, built for ridge-and-valley clay

Drainage Services in Chattanooga

One specialty: getting water off your property before it costs you a foundation, a wall, or a yard.

French Drain Installation

Fabric-wrapped, properly sloped systems that intercept subsurface water and keep it moving for decades.

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Yard Drainage Systems

Regrading, swales, catch basins, and dry creek beds — the whole routing toolkit, designed as one system.

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Downspout & Gutter Drainage

Buried extensions that carry roof water far from the foundation — the cheapest structural protection there is.

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Standing Water & Erosion

Ponding, gullies, and washouts fixed at the source — velocity control, armored channels, and real outlets.

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Why Chattanooga Properties Fight Water

Chattanooga sits in ridge-and-valley country: Signal Mountain, Lookout Mountain, and Missionary Ridge shed enormous volumes of stormwater onto the neighborhoods below, across clay soils that absorb almost none of it. Every lot in Hamilton County is somewhere in that water's path — receiving it from uphill, holding it in the flats, or passing it along to a foundation that was never meant to be a dam. Add the region's storm pattern — soaking winter fronts and violent summer downpours — and drainage stops being a landscaping nicety and becomes the difference between a dry crawlspace and a five-figure repair.

The symptoms are familiar to half the homeowners in this valley: the yard that squishes into May, the musty crawlspace smell every spring, mulch washing into the street, gullies deepening on the slope, puddles hugging the house while the lawn's center stays dry. They're all the same disease — water arriving faster than it leaves — presenting in different rooms.

The cure is routing, engineered as one system. Grade the surface so water starts moving. Intercept sheet flow in swales before it accelerates. Capture what concentrates in basins and French drains. And above all, design the discharge first: every foot of pipe in the ground is worthless if the water has nowhere to go at the end of it. That discharge-first design is the difference between drainage that works in a February gully-washer and the buried-hose installs that fail in two seasons.

Assessments are free, quotes are fixed and written, and if the honest fix is a cheap regrade instead of an expensive system, that's what we'll tell you. Water is predictable — that's the good news. It always does the same thing. So do we.

Frequently Asked Questions

Straight answers to what Chattanooga homeowners ask most.

How much does a French drain cost in Chattanooga?

Most residential systems run $2,000–$8,000 depending on length, depth, and discharge distance. Buried downspout systems start around $800. Assessments and fixed written quotes are free.

Why is my yard always wet?

You're likely receiving hillside runoff over clay that won't absorb it. The fix is routing — grading, swales, capture, and a working discharge — designed as one system, not bought as one gadget.

Will a French drain fix my wet crawlspace?

Often yes, when the moisture is surface and subsurface water reaching the foundation — an exterior drain plus corrected downspouts intercepts it. If your moisture has a different source, the free assessment will say so before you spend anything.

How disruptive is the work?

Mildly, briefly. Most projects run 1–3 days; sod gets cut and returned, beds go back, and the visible result is a small pop-up emitter or a stone channel that looks intentional.

Do you handle erosion and washouts too?

Yes — interception swales, armored channels, rip-rap at outlets, and slope restoration are half our work. See standing water & erosion.

Can you just tell me what's wrong for free?

That's literally the assessment: we walk the water across your property, ideally while it's raining, and give you the honest read — even when the answer is a $400 fix.

Stop Fighting the Water Every Spring

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