Dirt does what
we tell it.

Land grading is the work of shaping the ground so water goes where you want it and structures sit on ground that will hold them. Everything else, the machines, the trucks, the survey gear, serves two numbers: the elevation the dirt is at now and the elevation the plan says it should be. Good grading closes the gap between those across a whole property, so that when it rains, water leaves the way it is supposed to instead of pooling, running at a slab, or cutting a rut across the drive. That is why every job starts and ends with elevations: we shoot the grade as it is, decide where dirt comes off and where it goes, move and compact it, then shoot it again to confirm the finished surface matches the plan.

Usually both, in that order, and the walkthrough is what tells us. Grading is the first line of defense: shaping the surface so water leaves on its own with positive fall away from the house. Drainage handles what grade alone cannot, the subsurface water that keeps ground soggy and the roof water dumping faster than a yard can shed it. Leading with grade and adding a french drain or swale only where it is genuinely needed is usually cheaper and more durable than piping around a grade that was never fixed. Most of what people call a drainage problem is really a grade problem, so we read the whole lot before recommending either, and we tell you plainly which parts you do not need.

There is no single number, because grading covers everything from a small yard regrade to a full lot build-out. As rough brackets: a yard leveling or regrade commonly runs a few hundred to a few thousand dollars; drainage work, pads, ponds, gravel drives, and lot prep each carry their own ranges driven by size, access, the soil belt your lot sits on, haul distance, and how much dirt has to move. What swings a number most is access for the equipment and how much cut and fill the grades demand. We price after walking the property, line by line, and we will not put a figure over the phone we cannot stand behind once we are standing on the ground. Each service page lists an honest range for that specific kind of work.

We grade, drain, clear, and build pads across the DFW metroplex, and we publish a dedicated city page for a market only once we can write real local detail for it, the soil belt, the creeks and watersheds, and the county permit reality, rather than swapping a city name into a template. That is why our Service Areas page grows one city at a time. If your city is not listed yet, it usually just means the page is not written, not that we do not work there, so reach out with your address and we will tell you straight whether it is in range. Where we work is really about which of the three North Texas soil belts your ground sits on, and we grade to the belt you are actually on.

After the walkthrough and an agreed scope, most residential jobs schedule within a normal lead time, and we give you a start window and a call if anything shifts. Weather is the honest variable in North Texas dirt work. Blackland clay in particular will not compact and will not hold a clean grade when it is soaked, so after a wet stretch we sometimes give a site a few dry days to firm up rather than smear mud into a pad that fails a season later. Sandier ground works sooner after rain but still has its limits. We watch the forecast with you, sequence the dirt work for windows that will actually hold, and flag a weather slip the day it happens instead of going quiet on you.

Yes. Alongside homeowner grading and drainage we do builder lot prep and commercial site work: clearing, rough grading, cut and fill, building and parking pads, detention ponds, and erosion control run to the civil set and the inspected grades. On those jobs the documentation is half the work, so we coordinate density testing with your geotech firm, keep the records the project files require, and hand pads and subgrade off at the grades the slab and paving crews expect. One crew stays accountable for both the dirt and the paperwork from clearing to final grade. For a real bid on a commercial package, send the grading plan, the geotech report, and the storm design, and we return a number we can stand behind rather than a guess that comes back as a change order.