A written estimate, at no cost to you. No obligation at any step.
- You send the address and what you are seeing. The address matters more than the description, because the ground under it decides most of the answer.
- We pass it to a drainage contractor who works in Syracuse. They are the person who will stand on your ground and answer the questions a web page cannot.
- From there it is between you and them. We do not sit in the middle of it, and we do not sell your details.
- Nobody can price this work from a photograph. Any number offered without someone standing on the ground is a placeholder.
- Ask for the estimate in writing.
- You decide. If you would rather not go ahead, that is the end of it.
What this site does not do
We do not perform the work, quote it, or take a payment from you. We are not a party to the agreement you reach with a contractor, and we hold no trade license — the licensing, insurance and warranty that matter belong to the trade doing the digging, and are worth asking them for directly before work starts.
No timing is promised on this page. A window we cannot hold would be worse than none.
When not to buy one
Water on the floor after a heavy rain, near one wall, with a downspout outside it. Fix the downspout first. Water that seeps through a wall in a wet spring and never in summer. Look at the grade first. A drain installed around either of those is money spent on the wrong cause.
Two checks worth making before anyone quotes you.
- Extend the downspouts. A roof outlet should discharge at least 6 feet from the wall, and 10 is better. One downspout can put hundreds of gallons against a footing in a single storm, and an extension costs a small fraction of a drain.
- Fix the slope. The ground in the first 10 feet should fall away from the house, about 6 inches over that distance. Where it falls toward the house instead, water is being delivered to the wall on purpose.
If either is wrong, correct it and watch one more storm before spending anything larger.
Read what a Syracuse drainage job costs before calling anyone, and check the Syracuse Utah French Drain service area to see whether your street is covered.
Back to Syracuse Utah French Drain.
The ground under Syracuse
A system here is sized against a storm you can look up, not a rule of thumb
A ten-year storm here drops 2.08 inches in a day
Published by the National Weather Service for this location, with a stated confidence range. Asking which storm a system was sized for is a question any contractor should be able to answer, and this is where the answer comes from.
NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 1 Version 5, Precipitation Frequency Data Server
Trench depth is decided by the water table, not by preference
The shallowest mapped water table sits 3.1 inches down
A trench dug below the seasonal high water table fills while it is open and stays wet afterwards. Knowing the mapped depth before digging is what stops a system being installed into ground water.
USDA NRCS Soil Survey Geographic Database (SSURGO), via Soil Data Access
Questions people actually ask
What does this cost me?
Nothing. There is no fee at any of the 6 steps, and no payment passes through this site. Whatever you agree is between you and the contractor.
What do you need from me to start?
2 things. The property address, and a sentence about what you are seeing. The address matters more, because the ground under it decides most of the answer.
Do you sell my details?
No, to anyone, at any price. The form collects 4 things — the address, your name, a phone number and an email — and they go to the contractor coming out to look at the job. There is no marketing list behind this site.
What should I ask a contractor on the visit?
Three things. Where the water is being sent, whether the run has the 1 inch of fall every 8 feet it needs, and whether reinstating the surface is in the price. Ask for the estimate in writing before anything is agreed.
What if it turns out to be a different job?
That is worth hearing before the digging, and it happens often — the cheapest fix on a wet basement is a downspout moved 6 feet, and it is not a drainage job at all.
Ground that is saturated has nowhere to put the next storm, and water sitting against a wall keeps working on it.
What happens after you send an address
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The address first, and only then who you are
The first screen asks for the property address and checks that a contractor covers it. Only if one does does it ask for a name, a phone number and an email — there is no point taking your details to tell you nobody serves your street.
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Your details are not for sale
It goes to a drainage contractor working in Syracuse. The details are never sold, and never passed to a second firm.
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No cost, and nothing attached
There is no fee for sending an address and no obligation that follows from it. Deciding the work is the wrong work is a perfectly good outcome.
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Who does the work
An independent drainage contractor, not the publisher of this site. Who runs this site, and where every figure on it comes from, is set out on the about page.