Heinen Landscape Turns Rainfall Nightmares into Drainage Solutions
Each property has its own specific drainage needs and solutions, which is why it is essential to work with a team that has seen just about everything.
The Heinen drainage team has solved drainage issues with solutions ranging from hidden French drains to manufactured stone retaining walls and visually appealing dry creek beds for homeowners across the Kansas City metro for over 40 years. Before investing in an expensive basement or foundation repair project, talk with the experts at Heinen to see how addressing yard drainage problems can help alleviate your basement flooding problems!
With recent heavy rain in Kansas City, more and more homeowners are calling Heinen regarding property drainage issues. From pooling water drowning your lawn and plants to leaky basement walls and floors, poor drainage around your property can cause major problems and lead to expensive foundation and landscaping repairs.
Heinen has helped hundreds of homeowners alleviate years of poor drainage problems and avoid even more serious property damage by designing and implementing dependable drainage systems, such as French drains, retaining walls, and dry creek beds, that protect property for a lifetime. If you’ve had property flooding issues caused by recent rain, call Heinen – we have 40+ years of experience in turning water nightmares into drainage solutions.
Signs of Drainage Problems
Do you have any of the following? If you answer yes to any of the questions, speak with the drainage specialists at Heinen Landscape.
Standing or pooling water
If puddles or pools of water remain on your property after the rainstorm has passed, your yard is not properly directing excess water to a safe egress point.
Short or misdirected downspouts
Each inch of rain that falls on 1,000 square feet of a roof produces more than 600 gallons of runoff—enough to fill 10 bathtubs to the brim. Dumping that much water too close to the foundation can send it right into the basement, where it can cause major damage to the structural integrity of the home.
Water stains and seepage in the basement
Depending on where a stain shows up, you can tell if the problem is caused by surface water, which can be easy to deal with, or water traveling underground, a potentially bigger headache.
Cracks in the foundation
Foundations often have small cracks that appear as houses settle over time. Most are harmless, but bigger cracks bear watching. Keep an eagle eye on cracks larger than 1/8-inch wide by marking the ends with an erasable pencil line. Measure the width and jot it down. If you notice the cracks are growing, you’ve got potential problems.
Soggy spots on the lawn
If you have areas around your home that never seem to fully dry out and are always muddy, excess water is causing damage to the turf and soil.
Exposed roots
Exposed roots around the base of larger landscape plantings like shrubs and trees are signs of erosion caused by poor drainage. Left untreated, the shrubs and trees will be at risk for disease or death.
Flaking and deposits on walls
If you see areas of white or gray crust on the basement walls, that’s efflorescence—mineral deposits left behind by evaporating water. Or the wall may be flaking off in big patches, a condition called “spalling.”
Mildew in the attic
Sure, the attic might be a strange place to look for drainage problems, but mildew on the underside of the roof can be a tip-off to serious trouble at the ground level.
Migrating mulch
When soil doesn’t drain properly, rain runs off in sheets, carving gullies in the landscape, dumping silt on pathways, and carrying piles of mulch or wood chips where they don’t belong.
