Water goes somewhere. Decide where.
If part of your yard is still wet three days after it rains, that’s not a lawn problem. It’s a grading problem, and reseeding every spring won’t fix it.
Why it happens
Water doesn’t soak through it, so it sits on the surface or runs wherever the grading sends it. On most lots that’s toward the house, because that’s where the builder left the high ground when the lot was cut.
Virginia sits on clay
It’s usually some combination of regrading the low spot, giving the water a channel to run in, and carrying the downspouts well clear of the foundation instead of dumping two feet from it.
The fix is rarely one thing
A soggy patch of lawn is an annoyance. Water standing against a basement wall is a repair bill with a comma in it, and it gets worse every season it’s left. If you’ve seen a damp line along the inside of a basement wall, or mulch washing off a bed after every storm, that’s the one to call about first.
Water against a foundation is the expensive one
Thinking about a project?
Send a photo of the spot and roughly what you have in mind. We’ll come out, measure, and give you a written price.