Clogged, crushed, or outlet-less drains diagnosed and fixed — so they actually move water again.
Tell us what your yard is doing and we’ll come take a look — no charge, no pressure.
A drain that used to work and doesn’t anymore is one of our most common calls — and in Blackland clay, a lot of them failed for reasons specific to this ground. The good news: most are fixable once you know what actually went wrong.
When we dig up a failed drain here, it’s nearly always one of these:
We start at the outlet and work back, because a buried or missing discharge is the easiest thing to miss and the most common local failure. From there we check slope, look for crushed sections, and figure out whether the line silted up from missing fabric. Sometimes the repair is clearing and re-daylighting the outlet or adding the sump the original lacked; sometimes it’s replacing a crushed run; sometimes the honest answer is rebuilding a section correctly so you’re not back here next year.
Our goal on a repair is the same as on a new install: build it so it keeps working — fabric in the clay, real slope, pipe that won’t crush, and an outlet that stays clear. We’ll tell you plainly whether your drain is worth repairing or whether you’ll save money rebuilding the bad part right.
If we had to name the single most common reason a Waco drain fails, it’s that it was built with nowhere for the water to actually go — installed as if the clay would absorb it. On Blackland ground, a drain with no positive outlet is doomed from the first storm, however neatly it was laid. When we find that, the fix usually isn’t patching; it’s giving the system the outlet or the sump it needed all along, and we’ll show you exactly why the original never stood a chance.
Free on-site drainage assessments across Waco and McLennan County. We’ll tell you what’s actually happening in your Blackland clay and what it takes to fix it.