Commercial Drainage
At Diversified Drainage, we specialize in providing expert commercial drainage designs and solutions to protect your property from water damage and structural issues. Whether you're managing a retail space, office building, or industrial facility, we offer a range of services to prevent water accumulation and flooding. Our comprehensive solutions include stormwater management, catch basins, sump pump installations, and more, ensuring long-term protection and efficiency for your commercial property.
Most Common Commercial Drainage Problems
Surface/Storm Water Issues
When heavy rainstorms hit, surface water can quickly overwhelm commercial properties, leading to a variety of drainage issues. Common problems include:
- Flooded Parking Lots and Pathways: Stormwater runoff often collects in low-lying areas, causing flooding in parking lots, walkways, and entrances. Without proper drainage, this water can damage paved surfaces, erode landscaping, and create hazardous conditions for employees and customers.
- Water Pooling Around the Building Foundation: If your property’s drainage system isn’t designed to handle large amounts of stormwater, water may accumulate near the foundation. Over time, this can lead to seepage, compromising structural integrity and increasing the risk of costly repairs.
- Soil Erosion: Excess water from storms can wash away topsoil, eroding the landscape and potentially compromising the stability of retaining walls, hardscapes, and other structures on the property.
- Clogged Gutters and Downspouts: When gutters and downspouts are overwhelmed by debris or heavy rainfall, water can overflow, leading to damage along the roofline, walls, and foundation. This can escalate into significant repair needs if not addressed.
- Overflowing Drains: Overloaded drains can cause water to back up or overflow, leading to pooling in common areas, walkways, or around the building. This can result in flooding, create slip hazards, and increase the risk of water damage to the property.
Effective drainage solutions such as catch basins, stormwater management systems, and re-grading can address these common stormwater-related issues, protecting your property from water damage and ensuring a safe environment for tenants, employees, and customers.
Ground Water Problems
Groundwater, or subsurface water, naturally flows through soil and rock beneath the surface. As the water table rises, it can cause groundwater to reach the surface, posing a risk to the foundation, parking lots, and landscape of commercial properties. Excessive groundwater due to poor drainage can be especially detrimental to the structural integrity of your building and surrounding areas.
Common signs of groundwater issues include:
- Excessively wet or soggy ground around your property
- Pooling water in parking lots or lawn areas
- Uneven or unstable surfaces
- Frost heaving in colder climates
At Diversified Drainage, we specialize in treating groundwater problems at the source. With our experience and state-of-the-art equipment, we offer comprehensive solutions to address the root causes and ensure permanent fixes—no temporary measures.
Frost Heaving
Frost heaving occurs when moisture in the soil freezes and creates “ice lenses” that push the surrounding soil upward. This can create significant damage to paved surfaces, foundations, and structures on your property. Common issues caused by frost heaving include:
- Cracked or broken pavement (parking lots, sidewalks, driveways)
- Slanted or uneven walkways and foundations
- Structural damage to buildings and foundations
- Uneven floors or slabs
- Uprooted landscaping and plants
By addressing frost heaving with the right drainage solutions, Diversified Drainage can help mitigate these issues, ensuring the long-term safety and stability of your commercial property. Call today (763) 443-0575 for your commercial drainage solution!
Commercial Drainage Services
At Diversified Drainage, we provide comprehensive drainage solutions for commercial properties of all sizes, including design and implementation. Whether you're managing an office building, retail space, or industrial facility, our expert team offers tailored drainage systems to protect your property from water damage and ensure long-term structural integrity.
Our services include:
- Stormwater Management: We design and implement custom systems to manage stormwater runoff, preventing flooding and water damage to parking lots, walkways, and building foundations during heavy rain.
- Catch Basin Installation: Our team installs efficient catch basins to collect and redirect surface water, helping to prevent water pooling and flooding around your commercial property.
- Sump Pump Systems: Protect your building's foundation with reliable sump pump systems that remove excess water from basements, crawl spaces, and low-lying areas, preventing structural damage.
- Re-Grading and Site Reconfiguration: We offer professional re-grading services to correct uneven or poorly graded land, ensuring water flows away from your foundation and preventing potential damage.
- French Drains: We install effective French drains that direct excess surface water away from your building’s foundation, parking areas, and landscaped spaces to prevent flooding.
- Infiltration Systems: We design and install infiltration systems to capture stormwater and allow it to naturally soak into the ground, reducing surface runoff and helping to replenish groundwater.
- Erosion Control: Our team implements erosion control measures to prevent soil erosion around retaining walls, slopes, and landscaped areas, protecting the stability of your commercial property.
- Flood Prevention Solutions: We offer a range of flood prevention solutions, including trench drains and drainage channels, to direct water away from your building and protect your property from water-related damage.
In addition to providing reliable implementation of these solutions, Diversified Drainage also offers expert design services to ensure your drainage system is custom-tailored to meet the specific needs of your property. With over 20 years of experience, our team delivers long-lasting solutions that protect the integrity of your commercial property while maintaining functionality. Call today (763) 443-0575 for your commercial drainage solution!
Services reviews
At Diversified Drainage, we take great pride in providing exceptional drainage solutions to our valued customers. Here, you'll find a collection of reviews from our satisfied clients, showcasing their experiences and opinions about our services. We believe in transparency and want to share these testimonials to give you a glimpse into the quality and reliability of our work.
I have worked with many contractors and completed six figure remodels on homes in the past. Working with diversified drainage was a wonderful experience. Mitch and Doug are extremely competent, priced fairly and know how to handle storm and water drainage at residential and commerical properties. We now have state of the art drainage at our property and are very happy with the results. Their solutions are quality, work and they also stand behind their customer satisfaction. I would highly recommend working with them.
In April, Diversified Drainage helped correct the grading around the house we were about to sell. They were not the cheapest bid we got (although they weren't THAT much more than the other bids we got), but they were definitely the most responsive of all the companies we contacted, the most professional, and they did a tremendous job. We were so pleased that when we moved to our new house in a different area of town, we hired them again in July to regrade much of the back yard, and install a drain and drain pipe, thanks to lots of flooding in our basement. (So much for accurate disclosure statements from the previous owners...) Again, they were not the cheapest bid, but they had the best plan of any contractor we contacted, and did tremendous work. They also were able to do the work sooner than anyone else, and came a week before they had originally said they could, which we REALLY appreciated!! Everyone else had a wait time of about 2 months, and we only had to wait 2 weeks! The best part: With all the rain this spring, sod was hard to come by since apparently sod farms in the area were flooded. Diversified Drainage was the only company to suggest removing our sod, doing the regrading and drainage system installation, then laying back down our old sod. Everyone else said we'd have to re-seed the entire area since sod wasn't available, which we weren't keen on since we have 3 kids and 2 dogs who would have a hard time staying out of that area. The end result looks even better than it did before - the slope is away from the house, there isn't standing water in our lawn any more, so the grass is actually doing much better now. Later in July, my in-laws were having some water in their basement so I recommended Diversified Drainage to my in-laws. They came out to their house, looked at the situation, and told my in-laws that they didn't need regrading or drainage installation, they needed new gutters! There was no charge for the visit, and my in-laws were impressed that they actually turned down the work because it wasn't necessary. They were able to fix their problem by calling a gutter company instead. We were already impressed by Diversified Drainage's work, now we were impressed by their integrity as well. They are an outstanding company and I would recommend them very highly to anyone who had drainage issues on their property. They've earned a glowing review from us, 3 times over!
Since moving into my home in 2009 I have had a drainage problem along the side of my home that involved two problems. Problem #1 was that my sump pump pipe would drain into the lawn and create problems with standing water. No matter how long of a sump pump hose I bought, I was constantly moving its position in the lawn in order to vary where the water would drain into my yard. Problem #2 was that I had a couple of low lying areas near my home that collected water during heavy rains and also during spring time snow melt. This water would then flow into my home and the sump pump would need to work overtime in order to drain it all away from the home. I searched for drainage contractors here on Angie's List and found Diversified Drainage. I contacted Mitch and he came to the house and assessed my situation. Mitch suggested digging a trench and laying a pipe underground that would run all the way from my sump pump outlet to a drain near the back of my property. Secondly, he suggested re-landscaping a portion of my yard to eliminate the low lying areas and creating a slope that would drain water away from my home. I agreed to the work and in early May 2014 the project was completed. All of the work was done in one day. In fact, they did it all while I was at work and buy the time I came home, it was a completed project. The only reason Diversified Drainage needed to return was to lay sod for the re-landscaping (sod was not yet available the day the project was done). It has been several weeks since the project was completed and I would have to call it a success. We have had several rain storms since the project was complete and my yard looks better and is drier because I do not have a sump pump hose laying in the yard. Also, the sump pump is running less often because the new landscaping is carrying water away from the house instead of pooling in the low lying areas.
