Here is a recent project that we completed.  It was a very busy and confined space with underground utilities and a garden area that the homeowner did not want to be disturbed.

We decided to install a perimeter drain along the troubled side of the house and collect all the rainwater that came off the roof and down from the nearby hillside.

We did a lot of hand-digging on this one due to the lack of space for even our smallest backhoe machine.  As soon as we started digging the captured water started to flow away from the house.

You can see by the layers of the ground material that there is a porous layer of stone on top of the hard packed clay-like material below.  This stony layer actually caught a lot of the surface water and directed it toward the house instead of away from it. 

We installed our perimeter drain here with added drains in each window well to catch any extra rainfall load.

Closer to the top of the hill we installed a small surface drain to eliminate any puddles. Then we installed some perforated pipe to collect and direct any subsurface water away from the house and into our drain pipes.

The exit end of our system terminated in a rocky outcropping in front of the property.

Josephs Landscaping installs drains like this one as well as whole house perimeter drains.