French Drain and Yard Drainage in Oakwood, Kalamazoo, MI
Kalamazoo Drainage Pros is a licensed and insured drainage contractor serving the Oakwood neighborhood on the south side of Kalamazoo. We bury downspout lines, correct grading, clear standing water, and install french drains for the homes across the area.
Oakwood is a postwar neighborhood of smaller homes, many built in the years right after the war and added to since. Their original drainage was simple, so downspouts at the foundation and a settled grade are the two things we find most. We move that roof water off in solid PVC buried to a pop-up emitter and rebuild the fall along the wall, and where the soil holds water we run perforated pipe in washed #57 stone wrapped in filter fabric. A bare gravel trench on this clay clogs where a fabric-wrapped drain keeps running.
A neighborhood of modest postwar houses tends to share modest drainage. The lots are smaller and the homes sit close to grade, so a downspout dumping at the wall or a strip that has settled the wrong way soaks a basement or a crawl space fast. The fixes here are usually the straightforward ones, done before anyone reaches for something bigger. We start at the roof water and the grade, because on these homes that solves most of it.
Our work in Oakwood covers buried downspout lines, grading and slope correction, yard and surface drainage, and french drains. Call (269) 555-0177 for a free estimate on your home.