# Water running into the garage when it rains? (Kansas City)

> Premier Gutters KC - NDS-certified drainage contractor. (816) 469-9563. Published pricing.

**Short answer:** If the driveway slopes toward the garage, every storm arrives as a sheet aimed under the door. Sandbags and weather stripping fight the symptom. The fix is a channel drain cut across the apron - a grated trench that catches the sheet and pipes it away underground. Most KC driveways: $1,500-$3,500 installed (concrete cut, channel, buried discharge line, clean re-pour).

## Notes
- Check roof water first: a downspout emptying onto the slab uphill is sometimes half the river - burying it is $300-$700, occasionally the whole fix
- What doesn't work: threshold ramps, caulking the seal, re-sloping the whole driveway
- Winter: channel + line run at continuous downhill slope, so nothing stands and nothing freezes solid

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