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    Austin Drainage + Landscape Development

    3.9 (48 reviews)
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    Courtyard with limestone pavers, 4-6" steel, 3/8" limestone rock, Colorado River Rock for drainage, and some very gnarly roots.
    Lee B.

    Over the past two years, we've dealt with dozens of contractors: some good, some horrible. Suffice it to say, we know a great contractor when we see one--ADLD is high on that list. We were fortunate to closely work with Kyle, one of the owners. He is exactly what you hope for: someone who listens closely to the client, creatively solves problems, takes ownership of issues when they do arise, and bends over backwards to make things right. We had many reservations about our yard's unique drainage requirements (traditional landscape companies didn't seem to be capable of addressing when an entire yard slopes), and so ADLD became the logical choice given their drainage expertise, and they executed a design we gave them. Our only advice would be to ensure if landscape design, not just drainage, is involved, request an english-speaking crew member as sometimes the finer details can be lost in translation. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend ADLD's services.

    They helped us when our home was flooded by a botched "drainage" job from another company
    A M.

    They went above and beyond the call of duty to help us fix a fraudulent drainage job from an incompetent contractor who took our money & ran. Dale was awesome & the employees were professional! ADLD saved our home from flooding and everything still works.

    October 30th. Water moving away from the house
    Lance L.

    It's October 31st, after +8 inches of heavy rain and our house is dry. I have to say we are extremely happy with the work Austin Drainage did for us. In the past, We had several very close calls and decided we had better get a professional to help. Austin drainage is really the only company in the Austin area that does water remediation as their primary business and they are good at it. We used all their suggestions and are very pleased (swale, drains, gutters). Everything they installed worked exactly as planned. If we had not had this work down, I'm certain we would have had water in our house. When we first called them it was after the Memorial Day flooding and they had a huge backlog of work. We had to wait ~6 weeks for an appointment. Dale kept us informed, started earlier than promised, left a very clean worksite and came in under budget. During the work, one of our sprinkler controls was accidentally cut, he fixed that promptly also. If you are concerned about water drainage damaging your property, I highly recommend these guys.

    Swale cut to allow water to drain away from patio. Water previously pooled on patio due to lawn sloping toward patio.
    Chris S.

    I hired Austin Drainage & Landscape to resolve two drainage issues on my property -- pooling on side of house, and on my back patio. For the side, they installed an underground drain (custom built concrete drain box on side of house, into a 4" PVC pipe, terminating through a hole bored in the curb), and cut a swale in the backyard to divert water from the patio. The good: The actual crew who did the work did a great job. They were polite and very neat (all dirt removed during trenching/digging was placed on plastic sheets on the lawn, and it was a good thing, because we had a major rain storm in the middle of the project, and this prevented a muddy mess on the lawn). They paid attention to detail. The final result looked great. Several neighbors commented how good the yard looked, like it hadn't been touched, despite the tremendous amount of digging that had occurred. The not so good. I almost pulled the plug on these guys due to various missteps on the pre-sales / pre-work side of things: * Initial project manager assigned to my job was, in my opinion, incompetent. His initial plan completely failed to address my #1 drainage problem. Not impressed. * The initial project manager ordered a survey (which normally cost hundreds of dollars, which is credited back to the cost of the project) without my consent. I did not order the survey because at that point in the process I was still weighing bids from different drainage contractors. * Lead time was several weeks to a couple of months, I understand that. However, the actual start date was far off the expected start date that was communicated to me. I understand delays happen, but I would have appreciated some proactive communication from them to me about it. I found out about the delays only through calling the office myself, as I was coordinating the start of an irrigation system install with a separate contractor following completion of ADLD's work. Despite these issues, I wanted to give ADLD a chance, because my experience getting estimates from other drainage contractors wasn't much better, and ADLD has a better reputation. So I called ADLD, patiently explained my issues, and to their credit, they assigned a new project manager who came up with a new plan I was happy with, acknowledged their mistake on ordering the survey, and waived the cost of the survey. So, in summary, I would probably hire these guys again because the quality of their work is top-notch, and because they were genuinely concerned about the issues I raised, and made a good faith effort to resolve them. However, if you hire them, plan to stay on top of things to make sure you're getting exactly what you want. And be prepared to wait if you hire them during the busy season.

    Fine print of the contract mentioning the option to charge you $125/hr for jackhammering on top of your estimate.
    Geoff L.

    My existing gutter set up did not really make sense and was starting to create some valleys in my yard, so I wanted a better drainage system installed. I chose this company because I couldn't really find any others that seemed to focus specifically on drainage on Yelp. They came out and gave an estimate pretty quickly. But then it was difficult to get responses via email or phone when I wanted to make changes to the project or discuss the scope. It turned into long-term phone tag for a couple months. Then Harvey happened and I decided to just accept the original estimate and scope rather than waiting any longer than I already had. They notified me they we starting the project at 5pm the night before which did not make me happy because I had to notify my neighbor about some work involving his property. They came and started the work the next morning. The "project manager" Dale who was not there called me shortly after they began. He notified me that they were concerned about having to jackhammer bedrock, and if they had to do that, it would cost $125/hr on top of the estimate. I was furious because I live in Northwest Hills which obviously has a ton of bedrock to deal with for projects like this (and some was even visible above ground in the area where the work was being done). We talked about there likely being bedrock to deal with when he came out for the estimate and he never mentioned the possibility of any extra charge. I ran outside to see how much work had already been done and they had already dug a trench around my whole yard before mentioning this. They already had a 15% deposit from me, which I now understood was to give me no choice about accepting the upcharge. I had to either agree and allow them to continue - or lose at least 15% and end up with my yard torn up. When I asked repeatedly why this extra fee wasn't mentioned, I was referred to the fine print of the contract I signed (which you can see in the photo attached). Indeed it is mentioned in the fine print on the otherwise blank second page. Very well played, you may have a future with a fine organization like Time Warner. After complaining extensively to the project manager and office manager, I had gotten nowhere. I had to let them finish the project. They said they would try to limit the hours of jackhammering expense. I was told the project manager would check in with me throughout the day, but I never heard from him again. When I went to check on the project towards the end of the day and make sure some poison ivy removal included in the quote had been done, they were gone. I had never heard another word from anyone, I just received a request for the payment balance at the end of the day by phone. I checked out the work and they had not put up gutters or a downspout in one area where they were supposed to, the poison ivy had not been removed, a condensation line had not been connected to the drainage system, and the ground had not been adequately filled in where the previous issues were. All of these things were included in the estimate. I would think if there were a project manager, I would not be billed the balance until the work was done, but no one seemed to know it wasn't done, so they just billed me. I work from home, so I would also expect the chance to review the work when it was done rather than having to schedule a special appointment to do this afterwards. A few days later they came out and reviewed the work that hadn't been completed and finished the project - and of course were harassing me for payment again (without reviewing the work with me) before the end of the day. There charged me every penny for the 3 hours of additional jack-hammering charges, + $375. It was a really bad experience all around.

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    I am entirely satisfied and happy with the work and the guidance and project management that Dale provided.

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    Quick response time and Stan came out the very next day. He really spent time getting to the bottom…read moreof the issue with my sprinkler system and kept me in the loop the whole time. He installed a new smart home sprinkler panel and repaired some broken heads as well as giving tips on draining and shutting off the water supply for a freeze. He does give quotes with no hard sell but I chose not to wait and get everything done that day.

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    I absolutely loved dealing with Eric. He was able to come and check out the irrigation system in my…read morefront yard and back yard (a combination of sprinklers and drip system) that was faulty, give me his assessment and multiple options for resolving the issues, and then he was able to get the work on fixing it all done that same day! And as I was planning to do some landscaping work and lay new sod in the backyard, he gave some advice around how to arrange the irrigation system, and made an easily accessible connection point for a drip system to put into the flower bed, which I ended up taking care of myself later. What I also found very valuable/unique is that I could message Eric asking a question or two about operating the system and send him a video - within 10 minutes he would respond with a helpful answer. All in all, great experience.

    BEWARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DO NOT CALL THEM!!! HORRIBLE CUSTOMER SERVICE AND BAD…read moreWORKMANSHIP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! READ MY EXPERIENCE BELOW!!!!! I have no idea why these guys have such good ratings... here is my horrible experience with this horrible company and business owner Eric. It started about almost 4 months ago. My irrigation system was not working at all when turning the timer so I looked on Yelp and found them. So I decided to give them a call, like some other low rating users here state, no answer, voicemail, or returned calls... Eric did not return my call it was one of his employees a week later, forgot his name. That should of been my first sign to stop and not allow them to work on my lawn... however, I was too busy to call someone else which is why when they called me I decided to just go ahead and have them come. Once they came, they charged me for checking the system, replacing some sprinkler heads and suggested I changed some of the backyard control valves which they believe seemed to be the problem. I paid over $550 dollars for the hours of labor and parts and they left. Well, to my surprise I came home that night saw the sprinklers running as they should and was happy, however, I woke up in the morning and noticed they were running. So I went and checked the timer, turned it to off and saw the sprinklers go off in the backyard. I then left to work. Later that day my wife comes home to a FLOODED BACKYARD!!!! even though I turned the sprinkler system off it did not stay off it came back on who knows when during the day and it was on all day, backyard was completely flooded and water was running all the way down my front driveway from backyard onto the street, my water bill was way over $400 dollars that month not including my regular $200 bill so over $600 dollars!!!!!!! I was so pissed I called Eric, who then took his sweet time to come back. Since he took so long to come back to fix the issue I manually turned off the main water line that is in front of my house to the irrigation system so that this would not happen again... Well he finally came back and finds out that the issue was with the parts (Backyard control valves) that him and his employee replaced. He then tells me that he fired the guy that did that like if that takes care of all my problems and my high water bill. I then tell him that he needs to reimburse me for the water wasted and or refund me some of the original money i paid him. He refused and said he could not do that, the only thing he could do is pay me back with labor but he will not do anything until the City of Austin can prove how much water it really wasted and what the bill was. I mean, you call this customer services?????!!!! I then dealt with City of Austin to only find out that they only pay 50% of the water overage since I reported it to them and it takes 3 to 4 billing cycles!!! so I had to wait, in the mean time it has been raining a lot in Austin so I have had no need to use the sprinkler system since he supposedly "Fixed it"... so to my yet again surprise I go to turn it on 3 weeks ago or after the week that stopped raining and IT DOES NOT WORK YET AGAIN!!!! so he never actually fixed the damn problem!!!! So i called him and nothing again.... no text message replys, no returned calls, left several voicemails, nothing. So finally after 4 months of dealing with City of Austin and finding out the correct amount of the overage, I email him the receipts from City of Austin and no reply to my email. I text him asking to please reply or call and nothing. It has been now almost a week since I reached out to him and I am just going to call another irrigation service to come resolve my issue and probably yet again pay another 5 to 600 dollars since this guy will not call me back. So I ended up paying him $560 dollars for nothing plus another $400 to City of Austin for his employees\companys mistake and now I still have a bad irrigation system... Well, this was my experience with these people, I have seen some other unsatisfied clients on here, I hope any others out there voice their concerns so that no one else is a victim of this horrible business and unprofessional business owner Eric. I wish him the best but what goes around comes around. I might even contact the BBB to see if there is something else I can do to get at least some money back from this thief. Dont say I didnt warn you and go with someone else for your own sake....

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