Standing Water and Soggy Yards Are a Grading and Drainage Problem, Not a Lawn Problem
If water pools near your foundation, washes out mulch beds, or leaves low spots in your yard soggy for days after a storm, the fix usually isn't more grass seed—it's correcting how water moves across your property. TLC builds drainage into the grading and mulch work we already do for homeowners and businesses in Morris, Minooka, Channahon, and Coal City, so the solution fits your landscape instead of sitting on top of it.
What We Actually Do About Water on Your Property
Drainage work at TLC isn't a separate crew showing up with a different truck. It's the same team that installs and maintains your irrigation system checking that heads, valves, and grading aren't fighting each other, and the same team installing mulch making sure beds are shaped to shed water away from your foundation instead of toward it. We look at where water actually collects on a site, then adjust grading, mulch bed shape, or irrigation zoning so it drains where it should.
- Regrading low spots and swales so water moves away from structures
- Checking irrigation zones for overwatering or pressure issues contributing to soggy areas
- Shaping and edging mulch beds so they direct runoff instead of trapping it
- Adjusting garden design layouts to work with your property's natural slope
Why This Matters More in Spring and After Heavy Rain
Grundy County clay soil doesn't absorb water quickly, so properties in Morris and Minooka often see the same wet spots return every spring thaw and after summer downpours. Catching it early—before it undermines a patio, drowns a garden bed, or erodes fresh mulch—is a lot less work than repairing the damage afterward. If you've noticed the same puddle showing up in the same corner of your yard for more than one season, that's usually a grading issue we can address directly.
We don't treat drainage as an add-on—it's part of how we grade a lawn, install irrigation, and lay mulch from the start.
Where We Handle Drainage Work
We serve Morris, Minooka, Channahon, and Coal City directly, along with a number of surrounding communities. For the full list of towns we cover, see our page.
To talk through a wet spot on your property or ask what a drainage fix would involve, contact TLC at 420 E Pine Meadow Ct, Morris, IL 60450, or call (815) 942-6513.