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Underground gutter drainage in Ocala carries roof water from your downspouts through buried, glued solid PVC pipe and discharges it about five feet from your foundation. Unlike thin black corrugated pipe that clogs and breaks at every bend, solid PVC is smooth inside, sealed at the joints, and tough enough to drive over. Premium Leaf Guards installs it the way a licensed inspector would want it on his own home.
Your gutters can be perfect and your home can still take on water if the roof water dumps right back against the foundation. We bury the downspouts in solid PVC, give the line real fall, and get the water out and away for good. The owner, a state-licensed home and building inspector, is on every job.
Licensed home & building inspector on every job · Solid PVC, not corrugated · Water moved 5 ft from the foundation · Serving Ocala & Central Florida.
A gutter’s only job is to catch the water. After that, the water has to go somewhere. On a lot of homes, the downspout dumps it three inches from the slab, and a heavy Ocala rain sends it right back where it does the most harm: against the foundation, under the pavers, into the flower bed, or down toward the crawlspace.
Ocala gets about 52 inches of rain a year, and in the wet season from June through September that often falls in fast, hard afternoon storms that drop six to eight inches in a month. That is a lot of water leaving your roof in a hurry. When it has nowhere to go, you see the signs: a soggy strip along the house that never dries, sand washing out from between the pavers, mulch floating across the walkway, a patio that has started to sink, or a damp smell near the foundation.
Here is the honest part. Most homeowners did nothing wrong. Either the home was built without buried drainage, or someone ran cheap black corrugated pipe that has since clogged or snapped underground. You deserve to know which one it is, and you deserve a fix that does not come back.
Standing water against a foundation is patient. Left alone, it softens the soil the slab sits on, finds its way toward the crawlspace, feeds mold and wood rot at the sill, and turns a settling patio into a real repair. The cheap corrugated drain that someone buried years ago is the same story underground: it traps debris in its ribbed walls, it collapses where a tire or a tree root presses on it, and it cracks at every elbow. You do not see any of that until the water shows up at the house again.
The cost of getting drainage right one time is small next to a foundation repair, a crawlspace remediation, or tearing up the yard a second time to replace a pipe that was never built to last.
We connect each downspout to buried, glued solid PVC pipe, run it underground with real fall so gravity does the work, and discharge it about five feet from the foundation to a spot where the water can actually leave, a pop-up emitter in the lawn, a daylight outlet at a grade change, or into a larger drainage point when the lot calls for it. That is the whole idea: catch it, carry it, and put it somewhere it cannot hurt the house.
The pipe is the part that matters most, and it is the part the cheap installers get wrong. Here is how we build it:
Properly installed Schedule 40 PVC is rated to last well over 50 years, and many drainage lines push past 100. We treat it as a buried system you put in once. Everything is done to current codes and modern standards, and the owner, a licensed home and building inspector, is on the job, doing about half the install himself, because the system is only as good as the installer.
The black corrugated pipe is cheaper on day one. That is the only round it wins. It is the pipe we dig out and replace more than any other, because it does exactly what its shape promises: it catches debris, it folds at the elbows, and it splits where the ground moves. Solid PVC costs a little more to put in, and then you stop thinking about it. Pay once, not twice.
Pooling at the house, a patio that is sinking, sand washing out, or a buried drain that already failed. Call or text and describe it.
We walk the lot, find where the water goes, and lay out the right system, where the pipe runs, how it falls, and where it discharges. If the trouble is underground and the cause is not obvious, our $100 diagnostic gets you a real answer, and it is credited to the job if you hire us.
We dig the trench, run glued solid PVC with proper fall, set the discharge about five feet out, backfill, and leave the yard clean. Workmanship is warrantied.
Underground drainage is for the homeowner who is tired of fighting water at the house and wants it handled correctly the first time. Many of our clients are established and retiree homeowners across Central Florida who would rather pay once for a buried system than babysit a cheap pipe. If a downspout extension above ground does the job, we will tell you that too, because the goal is a dry foundation, not the biggest invoice.
Underground drainage is often part of a larger plan. If surface or hillside water is the real culprit, a French drain or a curtain drain may be the better tool, and for heavy cases we add catch basins and dry wells. See how it all fits together on our drainage & water mitigation page, and pair new drainage with seamless gutters when the gutters need help too.
We serve Ocala, The Villages, and the surrounding Central Florida communities. See the full service area.
Picture the next hard summer storm. The rain comes down fast, the gutters fill, and the water disappears into the ground and runs out into the yard, five feet from the house, where it belongs. No soggy strip along the foundation. No mulch on the walkway. No sinking patio. Nothing to think about. The pipe is buried, sealed, and built to outlast the mortgage. That is what underground drainage done right buys you: a dry foundation and one less thing to worry about.
Yes, and it is not close for buried drainage. Solid PVC is smooth inside so debris keeps moving, it is glued watertight so roots cannot invade the joints, and it is rigid enough to drive over. Black corrugated pipe traps debris in its ribs, pulls apart at the couplings, and crushes under weight. Corrugated is cheaper to install and far more expensive to live with.
Properly installed Schedule 40 PVC is commonly rated to last well over 50 years, and many drainage lines reach 75 to 100 years with minimal maintenance. We build it as a one-time, buried system. The most common reason a line fails early is bad installation, which is why the licensed owner is on every job.
Our standard is about five feet from the foundation, to a point where the water can actually leave, usually a pop-up emitter in the lawn or a daylight outlet at a grade change. The exact distance and outlet depend on your lot’s slope and where the low ground is. The goal is simple: get the water far enough out that it never works its way back to the slab.
Solid Schedule 40 PVC is strong enough to run under driveways, walkways, and parking areas when it is installed at the right depth. That is one of its biggest advantages over corrugated pipe, which collapses under that kind of weight. We plan the route and depth for whatever sits on top of it.
A smooth-walled, glued PVC line with real fall is far less likely to clog than ribbed corrugated pipe. Water moves fast enough to carry fine debris through, and there are no ribs or open joints to catch it. Pairing the system with quality gutter guards keeps most debris out of the line in the first place.
Yes. We locate the failed or clogged line, show you what went wrong, and replace it with glued solid PVC routed and pitched correctly. If the cause is not obvious underground, our $100 diagnostic gets you a straight answer, and it is credited to the job if you move forward.
It depends on the number of downspouts, the length of the runs, where the water has to go, and what is on top of the trench. We do not post prices because no two yards are the same, and we will not quote you blind. Call or text (352) 440-3310 for a free estimate, and we will price the whole job all-in.
Buried solid PVC, real fall, and a discharge five feet out, installed by a licensed inspector who is on the job. All-in pricing, no pressure, and if a simpler fix does the job, we will tell you.
