Searching drain tile repair near me — that's us. Farm and field tile repair across central Illinois. Broken, crushed, and collapsed farm tile located, dug up, spliced or replaced, and tied back to the main. Blown-out outlets and failed risers rebuilt, plus targeted new lines run to pull a wet spot dry. Mattoon, IL — 60-mile radius. Repair and targeted lines — no pattern tile.
📞 Call (217) 809-0779 Free EstimateDrain tile repair near me — we're a farm tile repair outfit working central Illinois. We locate and repair blown, crushed, collapsed, or root-clogged farm tile and drain tile and tile outlets — dig down, splice or replace the bad run, and get water moving again so fields and yards drain. We also run targeted new drain tile lines to pull a specific wet spot dry. What we don't do is fresh pattern tile across a whole field. Central Illinois, Mattoon — 60-mile radius. Free on-site estimate: (217) 809-0779.
When drain tile fails you get a new wet spot, a backed-up outlet, or a sinkhole over the line. A drain tile repair means locating the break, digging it up, splicing or replacing it, and tying it back to the main — or running a targeted new line if there was never tile there to begin with.
A field that's gone wet in a spot it never used to. Water backing up at the outlet. A sinkhole opening over an old tile line. When tile quits, the ground tells on it — and the fix is to find the failure and put the water back in the pipe.
Repair-first — and we move fast. We're not a pattern-tile install crew chasing the big new-install jobs; we find the failure, fix it, and get your water moving again — and we're not booked out for the season like the install outfits. And you deal with the owner, not a call center: your job is run by Levi Brohez, the man on the machine — call or text direct at (217) 809-0779.
Brohez Trucking LLC does drain tile repair on farm tile, field tile, and drainage tile across central Illinois — residential lots, farm ground, and commercial sites alike. Old clay tile that's collapsed with age. Modern HDPE crushed by deep tillage or heavy equipment. Outlets buried during a fence row push-out. Risers and inlets that have failed. We locate the break, dig down to it, splice or replace the bad run, and tie it back to the main at the right grade.
Repair and targeted lines — not pattern tile. We don't run fresh pattern tile across a whole field; that's a different trade and a different machine. What we do is fix an existing system that's failing, and run a targeted drain tile line to a wet spot with a real outlet — one line, shot to grade, doing one job.
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Most of the farm tile in this part of Illinois is older than the man farming over it. Coles, Cumberland, Douglas, Moultrie, Shelby, and Effingham county ground is full of clay tile laid a century ago on grade nobody wrote down, plus HDPE from the 70s and 80s that's been driven over by equipment three times heavier than anything the installer imagined. It works until it doesn't, and when it quits you don't find out from a map — you find out from a wet spot that costs you the pass.
What we do on farm drainage tile:
Timing matters on ag ground and we work around it — post-harvest and early spring are the honest windows, and we'd rather come look now and schedule the dig than promise you a machine in a wet field. Repairs are also the cheapest drainage dollar you'll spend: fixing 40 feet of blown tile can bring a whole system back, where the alternative quote is a fresh install of the entire field.
We repair broken, crushed, and collapsed drain tile, blown-out outlets, failed risers, and tile that's lost grade — and we run targeted new lines: one drain tile main to a wet spot, shot to grade, tied to a real outlet. What we do not do is fresh pattern tile across acreage. That needs a tile plow and it's a different trade — we'll point you to a tiling outfit, and we're glad to handle the repairs after.
One contractor for the locate, the dig, the pipe, the gravel, and the backfill — and the outlet rebuild if the failure is down there too. When we re-set a run that lost grade, we run laser grade control so the repair drains at consistent fall the way the original was meant to. Call and we'll come look. The estimate is free.
Plenty of outfits around here have been at it a long time. We counter on what age alone doesn't buy: modern iron — a Komatsu PC150LC-6 excavator and a Cat D6N dozer — run with laser grade control so the repair drains at the right fall the first time. Add 18 five-star reviews and a same-week, free on-site estimate, and you've got a crew that finds the break, fixes it right, and leaves it draining.
Your drain tile repair is designed and run by Levi Brohez, owner-operator — the man on the machine is the man you talk to. Direct line: (217) 809-0779.
If you searched drain tile repair near me, drain tile contractor near me, or field tile repair and landed here, that's us — Brohez Trucking LLC, out of Mattoon, IL, working a 60-mile radius.
One thing to be straight about up front, because it decides whether we're the right drain tile contractor for your job: we are a repair outfit. We find the break, dig it up, splice or replace the bad run, tie it back to the main, rebuild blown outlets and failed risers, and run targeted new lines to pull a specific wet spot dry. What we don't do is install fresh pattern tile across a whole field — no tile plow, no full-field systems. If that's what you need, we'll tell you so instead of taking the job.
Most of the outfits advertising as farm drainage tile contractors around here are chasing whole-field installs. The repair work — one blowout, one crushed run under a lane, one outlet washed out of the ditch bank — is the work that actually gets a farmer through the season, and it's the work we're set up for. Komatsu PC150LC-6 for the mains and the deep digs, JCB 8040ZTS mini for tight ground and around buildings.
Coles, Douglas, Moultrie, Shelby, Cumberland, Effingham, Champaign, Macon and Edgar county farm ground, plus town lots and acreages in Mattoon, Charleston, Effingham, Champaign, Urbana, Decatur, Tuscola, Sullivan, Shelbyville, Pana and Terre Haute. Travel is built into the estimate.
Talk to Levi — the man running the machine, not a call center. Call (217) 809-0779.
Most drain tile repairs follow the same shape — find it, fix it, tie it back, leave it draining.
A new wet spot, a surface blowout, a sinkhole over the line, or water backing up at the outlet each point somewhere different. We start from what the ground is telling us. Free estimate.
We trace the run, probe, and dig test holes to put eyes on the break. Locates get called before any digging starts.
We open the trench to the tile at the right depth, careful not to disturb the sound pipe on either side of the failure.
The failed section comes out. New HDPE pipe goes in, coupled to the sound tile on both ends, set at the original grade so it drains like it was meant to.
If the failure is at the outlet — blown-out pipe, eroded rock, crushed riser — we rebuild and protect it so the whole system keeps draining.
Trench backfilled in lifts, surface restored, and graded smooth. Field ground gets disced back ready for the next pass; yard ground gets seeded.
From a single blowout to a collapsed main under a fence line — if the tile's failing, we fix it.
HDPE tile crushed by deep tillage, heavy equipment, or settling — located, dug up, and spliced back to sound pipe at the right grade.
Old clay tile that's failed with age. We cut out the collapsed run and splice in new HDPE tied back to the sound clay on both ends.
A tile blowout is pressure finding the weak spot — the line surcharges, the joint or the outlet lets go, and water tunnels out through the soil until a crater opens over it. Washed-out outlet pipes, eroded outlet rock, and lost main connections all get rebuilt and protected so the system keeps draining instead of blowing out again in the same place.
A crushed tile riser or a surface inlet that has quit taking water — flattened by a tractor tire, packed with trash, or rusted off at the collar. Repaired or replaced, set back at the right elevation for the low spot it drains, and tied back to the line.
A grade break — a section that settled into a flat spot or a reverse grade — silts in and quits draining, and everything upstream of it backs up. We shoot the run, find where the fall is lost, and re-dig and re-set that stretch so water moves downhill the whole way to the outlet.
Outlets and tile buried or broken during a fence row push-out, located and rebuilt as part of land-clearing cleanup.
A hole opening over a tile run usually means a joint has failed and soil is washing in. We find it, fix it, and stop the loss before it gets bigger.
Where two or more mains come together, a junction box takes the joint out of the dirt and puts it somewhere you can reach. Old boxes crack, silt full, or get crushed and become the plug the whole system backs up behind. We dig them out, rebuild or reset them on a stable base, re-tie the lines at the right elevations, and lid them so they can be checked instead of guessed at.
Can't find where the old tile runs? We trace, probe, and locate existing lines so a repair or a new yard drain can tie into the right main.
Most people land here looking for a repair, but a good share of what we actually dig is drain tile installation — a run that was never there, a lateral into a wet corner that has never dried out, or a line so far gone that replacing it beats splicing it again. Field tile installation on the farm side is the same work at field scale: a single line to a wet hole, a lateral tied into a main that still has capacity, or a new outlet where the old one silted shut years ago.
Straight about what we install and what we don't. We put in targeted lines and repairs — single runs, laterals, replacements, outlets and surface inlets. We are not a pattern-tile outfit. If what you need is a whole field systematically tiled on a designed grid, that is a different contractor with different equipment, and we will tell you so rather than take the job and improvise.
What a new line actually involves: find where the water is going and where it can go, set the outlet first because the outlet governs everything above it, dig to a grade that keeps falling the whole way, bed the pipe so it does not belly, and backfill without crushing it. A tile line laid to no grade is a trench full of pipe, not drainage.
Install when the ground has never drained, when a wet spot has no line under it at all, or when a run has failed in enough places that another splice is throwing good money after bad. Repair when the tile worked until recently — that is usually one break, one crushed section, one root mass or one submerged outlet, and finding it beats replacing everything around it. We walk it and tell you which one you are looking at before anybody quotes a number.
Either way it is one free on-site look and one straight number — call (217) 809-0779.
Failed tile isn't only a farm problem. The same crushed lines, blown outlets, and lost grade show up under apartment complexes, contractor yards, church and school grounds, commercial lots, and solar sites — and the repair is the same work with the same machines.
What changes on a commercial site is everything around the hole: traffic to keep moving, surface to put back, and someone who needs to know when it's done. We work off one point of contact, keep the opening as small as the failure allows, and restore the surface we came through. If it's under pavement or in a drive aisle, we say so up front rather than finding out with the bucket in the ground.
We also sub to general contractors on sitework — storm sewer, drainage ditches, and grading — so a commercial drain tile repair can run as its own small job or as part of a larger scope you're already letting. Site grading that goes with it is on our grading page; larger stormwater work is under drainage.
Solar sites are built on ground that was very often tiled first — and driving pile, trenching cable, and running heavy equipment across a field is exactly how a tile line gets crushed. Tile that quits under an array shows up as standing water between rows, soft ground the O&M crews can't travel, and washouts along access roads.
We locate the break, dig it up, splice or replace the run, and tie it back to the main at grade — same as any field repair, worked around the racking and the buried cable rather than through it. Tie-ins to existing field tile and outlets are part of our solar site work, whether the tile was hit during construction or gave out years later.
Commercial or solar tile that's quit draining — call (217) 809-0779. Free on-site estimate.
Real excavation work from across central Illinois — same equipment, same crew, same standards on tile repair as on every job.
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The ground usually tells on it — a new wet spot where the field always drained, water backing up at the outlet, a soft sinkhole over the line, or a surface blowout. If a spot you used to farm or mow now ponds after every rain and never used to, the tile underneath is the first thing to check. We trace the run and dig test holes to confirm the break.
Targeted lines, yes — pattern tile, no. If you've got one wet spot and somewhere for the water to go, we'll run a single drain tile line to it, shot to grade and tied to a real outlet. What we don't do is fresh pattern tile across a whole field; that takes a tile plow and it's a different trade. Repairs to an existing system are squarely our work.
Nothing, mostly — they're two names for the same thing, and which one you hear depends on who's talking. "Field tile" is what farmers around here call it; "drain tile" is the term you'll see everywhere else, and it also covers the shorter runs people put in around a yard or a building. Same perforated pipe, same job: give the water a path out. We repair both and run targeted new lines of either.
We follow the symptoms — a new wet spot, a surface blowout, a sinkhole over the line, or water backing up at the outlet. From there we trace the run, probe, and dig test holes to find the failure.
Old clay tile collapses with age. Modern HDPE gets crushed by deep tillage, heavy equipment, or settling. Outlets get buried during a fence row push-out or eroded away. Roots clog lines. And tile set with a flat spot silts in and quits draining.
Yes. When a section collapses we dig down, cut out the failed run, and splice in new HDPE tied back to the sound clay on both ends — at the right grade so it drains like the original was meant to.
Depends on how deep the tile is, how much we have to dig to reach the failure, and whether the outlet needs rebuilt too. A single shallow blowout is one number; a deep main repair is another. Free estimate — call (217) 809-0779.
Yes — blown-out outlet pipes, eroded outlet rock, crushed risers, and failed surface inlets. A tile is only as good as its outlet, so we rebuild and protect them.
60-mile radius from Mattoon, IL — Decatur, Champaign, Urbana, Effingham, Charleston, Tuscola, Sullivan, Shelbyville, Pana, and Terre Haute.
No — we repair field tile, we don't install fresh tile systems. If you've got a broken, crushed, or collapsed line, a blown-out outlet, or a tile that's lost grade, that's our work. New pattern-tile installs across a field are a different trade and a different machine.
60-mile radius from Mattoon, IL — Decatur, Champaign, Urbana, Effingham, Charleston, Tuscola, Sullivan, Shelbyville, Pana, Terre Haute, and the farm ground in between.
Brohez Trucking. We handle drain tile repair near me across the 60-mile radius from Mattoon, IL — Decatur, Champaign, Urbana, Effingham, Charleston, Tuscola, Sullivan, Shelbyville, Pana, and Terre Haute. Broken, crushed, and collapsed lines located and repaired, outlets and risers rebuilt. Free on-site estimate.
Yes. Apartment complexes, contractor yards, church and school grounds, commercial lots and solar sites all sit on ground that was often tiled first, and the repair is the same work with the same machines. What's different is the site around it — keeping traffic moving, keeping the opening small, and putting the surface back. We also sub to general contractors on sitework, so a commercial drain tile repair can run on its own or fold into a larger scope.
Yes. Solar sites are usually built on tiled ground, and pile driving, cable trenching, and heavy equipment traffic are exactly how a line gets crushed. It shows up as standing water between rows, ground too soft for the O&M crews, or washouts along access roads. We locate the break, dig it up, splice or replace the run, and tie it back to the main at grade — worked around the racking and buried cable, not through it. If you're an EPC or O&M contractor looking for a civil sub, that's its own page: solar farm site work.
Yes — field tile repair near me is available anywhere in our central Illinois service radius. We're a repair outfit: we find the break, dig it up, splice or replace the bad run, and tie it back to the main, plus targeted new lines to pull a wet spot dry. We don't install fresh pattern tile across a whole field.
Yes — a repair-side one. We're a farm drain tile contractor working central Illinois out of Mattoon: broken, crushed and collapsed tile located and repaired, blown outlets and failed risers rebuilt, mains dug up and replaced, and targeted new lines run to pull a wet spot dry. We do not install fresh pattern tile across a whole field — no tile plow, no full-field systems. Free on-site estimate.
Call us and we'll come look at it. Brohez Trucking LLC covers a 60-mile radius from Mattoon, IL — Charleston, Effingham, Champaign, Urbana, Decatur, Tuscola, Sullivan, Shelbyville, Pana, Terre Haute and the farm ground between them. Levi owns the machines and runs them, so the man who quotes your tile job is the man who digs it. The on-site estimate is free.
Brohez Trucking LLC repairs field and drainage tile across a 60-mile radius from Mattoon, IL — into Coles, Cumberland, Douglas, Shelby, Moultrie, Effingham, Edgar, Clark, Champaign, and Macon counties, plus over the line into Vigo County, Indiana. Pick your town below for local details — drain tile repair in Tuscola and drain tile in Decatur each have their own local write-up of what fails on that ground — or call (217) 809-0779 for a free estimate anywhere in the radius.
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