One company, accountable for the dirt

What we do

GradeWerx grades, drains, clears, and builds pads across the DFW metroplex, for homeowners, builders, and commercial general contractors alike. Yard leveling and drainage correction, gravel driveways, land clearing, ponds and stock tanks, building pads, lot prep, commercial site work, and erosion control are all the same underlying trade: reading where water goes and shaping the ground so it goes where it should. We are a service-area business, which means we come to your property across the metroplex rather than working out of a storefront.

How we are accountable

The dirt-work trade has a reputation: a tractor shows up, does something, and the water still ends up at the slab. We built GradeWerx to be answerable for the result. An operator we know runs your job and a vetted crew does the work, managed by GradeWerx, so one company is accountable from the first walkthrough to the final grade check. We pick up the phone, show up when we say we will, and come back after the first hard rain if something needs a second pass. The follow-through is the difference, and it is the thing a name on the work is supposed to guarantee.

Why North Texas ground takes local knowledge

The metroplex sits across three very different soil belts, and which one your property is on decides how it should be graded. Blackland Prairie clay on the east swells when it rains and shrinks when it dries, so it moves foundations and sheds water off the surface. Cross Timbers sand on the west does not heave; it washes, rilling and gullying after a storm. The Grand Prairie limestone belt through the middle puts rock at or near grade, so you build pads up with imported fill instead of cutting down. Read the belt wrong and a textbook fix makes the problem worse. We grade to the belt you are actually standing on, and our Grading 101 guide walks through how each one behaves.

How a job runs

Every job runs the same order. We walk the site, ideally with the stains and silt lines of the last storm still visible, and look at where water comes from, where it sits, and what is in the way. We shoot the existing grades so the plan starts from numbers, not eyeballing. We plan the cut and fill, deciding where dirt comes off, where it goes, and how the water leaves, before the machine unloads. Then we move dirt and compact it in lifts so the grade holds, and we shoot the final grade again when we are done. The job is finished when the numbers say so, not when the tractor leaves.