French Drain and Yard Drainage in Milwood, Kalamazoo, MI
Kalamazoo Drainage Pros is a licensed and insured drainage contractor serving the Milwood neighborhood in the southeast corner of Kalamazoo. We install french drains, correct grading, bury downspout lines, and set catch basins for homes across the district.
Milwood is a large neighborhood built over a long stretch, with homes from the 1920s and 1930s sitting near ranch houses that filled in after the war. That range means the drainage varies house to house, but the clay under all of it is the same. Where water sits in the soil we run perforated pipe in washed #57 stone behind geotextile filter fabric, and where it stands on the surface we set a catch basin piped to a lower outlet. A gravel trench with no fabric would seal shut on this southeast-side clay in a few seasons.
A neighborhood built across so many years fails in a few different ways. The older homes carry settled grades and aging buried lines, while the postwar ranches often have downspouts still dumping at the wall and shallow original drainage. On flat clay the water does not run off so much as spread and stand, so a low corner of the yard turns soggy and stays that way. We match the fix to the age of the house and the fall of the lot.
Our work in Milwood covers grading and slope correction, buried downspout lines, catch basins and dry wells, and french drains. Call (269) 555-0177 for a free estimate on your home.