Brick Pavers, Drainage & Landscaping in Farmington, MI

It is a gravel trench with a perforated pipe in it, buried along the line where water collects. Surface and ground water drop into the gravel, enter the pipe and get carried somewhere useful. You need one when water keeps arriving at the same low spot and has nowhere to go on its own.

Somewhere deliberate, which is the part that gets skipped on bad jobs. Ideally it daylights at a lower point on the property. Where there is no fall to work with, it goes into a dry well sized to the roof or paved area feeding it. What it must not do is empty onto a neighboring property.

Either. Plenty of our drainage work is a standalone job with no hardscape attached. If the only thing wrong with your yard is that it holds water, that is the job, and it costs a great deal less than a patio.

Yes, and it is worth doing before anything else. Ground that falls toward a foundation sends water at the wall every time it rains. Regrading re-establishes fall away from the house, sometimes on its own and sometimes combined with a drain line where there is not enough room to grade alone.

No. They are two separate cities that happen to share several zip codes. Farmington is the smaller of the two and Farmington Hills surrounds it. We work in both, so the distinction does not change anything on our end.