If you’ve noticed puddles near your foundation, it may be time to grade (or regrade) that area of your yard, which means to shape the ground so water moves away from the house instead of toward it.

Question: We just moved into our new brick two-story home, and I’ve got a problem with soggy lawn drainage. Only one drain was installed, and it doesn’t seem to be doing a good job. How should the ...

Things with “French” in the title are usually fancy, right? Poodles, perfume, pastries. But a French drain is nothing more than a ditch in sloped ground, inset with a perforated drain pipe under a ...

Q: We just moved into our new brick two-story home, and I’ve got a problem with soggy lawn drainage. As you can see in my photo, the ground on one side of the house is higher than the first floor of ...