About Nashville's Drainage and Excavation

Nashville's Drainage and Excavation is a drainage and excavation contractor serving Nashville and 64 more towns across 12 counties of Middle Tennessee — and we stake our name on how the work goes.

Drainage is sold as a French drain, and a French drain with nowhere to discharge is a buried trench full of water. Our crews trace the water — the gutters, the grade, the neighbor’s lot — design the system to a discharge that works, and set the grades with instruments rather than by eye.

What we do

Trace the water first. Where it comes from and where it should go, ideally seen in a rain, before anything is designed.
Design the discharge. Daylight, a dry well, a storm connection — every system ends somewhere that takes the water.
Set grades with a level. Pipe fall and surface grade measured, not guessed; a flat drain is a trench that holds water.

What we will not do

Bury a drain with no outlet. It fills and it fails; the outlet is the design.
Send your water to the neighbor. It is a lawsuit in the making and the design avoids it.
Grade without protecting the foundation. Soil is kept below the siding and pitched away from the house, every time.

What we actually work on

Yard drainage and excavation in Nashville.

The drainage and excavation problems Middle Tennessee homeowners bring us most often:

Standing water days after rain
Water running toward the house
Soggy patch that never dries out
Crawl space or basement taking water
Soil washing off a slope
Downspouts dumping at the foundation

Who does the work

Every drainage crew we run carries liability insurance on file with us, calls in utility locates before digging, and holds the Tennessee contractor’s license the job value requires.

Beyond the paperwork, the test is how somebody handles the part of a drainage and excavation job that does not go to plan — the honest call when the estimate has to change, and whether you hear about it before the work or after. The drainage contractors who stay with us are the ones who have passed that test on jobs we know about.

Why we do not publish reviews yet

No reviews on this site yet: a company this new has none to show, and a drainage job is judged in the next hard rain.

Where we work

Drainage crews serving Nashville also cover Franklin, Brentwood, Murfreesboro, Hendersonville — 65 towns across 12 counties. Each of the main cities has its own page — what its houses mean for drainage and excavation, who issues the permits, which neighborhoods are inside the run.

If you want to understand the work before you speak to anyone, our drainage and excavation guide covers what drives the price, what your options are and what a badly done job looks like — written so you can judge any drainage contractor in the region, including us.

Who we are

Everything published by Nashville's Drainage and Excavation is answerable to Michael Blair, who owns and runs the business. The pages are built from manufacturer documentation, excavators’ own practice and Tennessee code, and revised when those change; posts carry his name and the date they went up. The people running our equipment are licensed and insured, bound by the commitments set out above, and Nashville's Drainage and Excavation puts its name behind the work.

Check any drainage contractor before they dig: verify.tn.gov is where you confirm the Tennessee contractor’s license, the insurance certificate is yours to see before the excavator shows up, and each city page names the local permit office.

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