Foundation Defense
Keep roof water away from your foundation.
The Foundation Shield™ pairs heavy-gauge seamless gutters with underground drainage that carries every downpour 15–20+ feet from your slab. It's built for the expansive clay and caliche under Central Texas homes.
The problem
Texas soil moves. Roof water makes it worse.
Swelling and shrinking clay
Houston Black clay can swell when soaked and crack apart when it dries. Roof water dumped at the slab drives that cycle.
Caliche and limestone shelves
On Hill Country lots, water can't soak in. It runs along rock shelves and pools against foundations and retaining walls.
Heave, cracks and sheared pipes
Uneven soil movement can lift or drop sections of a slab, crack walls and stress the plumbing lines running under your home.
The Foundation Shield™
Eave-to-outlet drainage, engineered as one system
- 1
Seamless gutters catch the water at the roofline with no leaking seams.
- 2
Oversized downspouts drop it straight into sealed underground pipe.
- 3
Schedule-40 PVC carries it under your yard, away from the slab.
- 4
Pop-up emitters or rock swales release it safely 15–20+ feet out.
System specs
- Gutters
- 6" seamless 0.032 aluminum (5" available)
- Downspouts
- 3"×4" oversized
- Underground pipe
- Schedule-40 PVC
- Discharge distance
- 15–20+ feet from the slab
- Outlets
- Pop-up emitters or rock swales
Turn the next downpour into stored water.
Free on-site estimate, rebate eligibility check, and a system designed for your roofline.