French Drain Installation in Kingwood, TX

What we help with in Kingwood.

Call first if water is moving toward the slab or sitting for days. We route one local crew, not a list of bidders.

French Drain Installation For soggy side yards and water working toward the slab Typical: $2,500–$10,000 · 1–3 days Yard Drainage Solutions Catch basins, regrading, and downspout tie-ins for lawns that pond Typical: $1,500–$6,000 · 1–2 days Drainage Repair Camera-diagnose and fix drains that silted, crushed, or quit Repairs often $800–$3,000

What happens after you call.

We keep the path narrow: one homeowner, one local crew, one clear estimate.

Describe the yard Tell us where water sits after rain and whether it is moving toward the slab.
We route one crew The request goes to one insured, vetted contractor who works the Lake Houston corridor.
They inspect on site The crew checks grading, soil, discharge, and gives you a free estimate before any work starts.

Need help in Kingwood now?

Call first for the fastest response, or send the details and a local drainage crew will follow up.

Call (346) 478-0205

Local drainage details for Kingwood Neighborhood context for research, kept lower so the page stays call-first.

Kingwood's tree canopy is why people move here and why its yards drain slowly: the Livable Forest shades clay soil that's slow to dry, and the greenbelt corridors that thread between the villages collect runoff from thousands of lots. The neighborhood's drainage spine, Bens Branch and Taylor Gully, both feeding the West Fork of the San Jacinto, sets the stakes: when the channels run full, whether water reaches your slab comes down to your own lot's grading and drains.

The history here is specific. Harvey put the West Fork into thousands of homes across the Lake Houston area in 2017 and left the river channel so silted that the Army Corps ran emergency dredging. Elm Grove and Mills Branch flooded twice in 2019: the May 7 storm, then Imelda, when Taylor Gully overflowed carrying runoff from the cleared Woodridge Village tract upstream; Harris County Flood Control has since acquired that land for stormwater detention. In May 2024 the West Fork rose again and put river-adjacent streets under water. Nobody in 77339 or 77345 needs convincing.

Inside the villages, including Elm Grove, Mills Branch, Kings Point, Bear Branch, and Sand Creek, the chronic problems are mostly lot-level, not river-level: flat clay yards, shaded side strips between houses that never dry, downspouts dumping at the slab, and builder grading that settled decades ago. Those are fixable in days with French drains, catch basins, and regrading, for a fraction of what one flooded floor costs.

Drainage work in Kingwood has its own rules: trenching around mature root systems, respecting greenbelt easements, and choosing discharge routes that do not just hand the water to your neighbor. We match you with insured, vetted crews that work this terrain, not a national call list.