From raw ground to build-ready under one crew: clearing, rough grading, cut and fill, utility trenching, the pad, and the drive sequenced so the lot is ready the day the builder is, with nobody pointing at the next guy when the schedule tightens.
Credibility comes from how it's done, not from promises. Here's the order of operations on every lot prep & site excavation job.
We start from your survey, site plan, or builder package and confirm elevations, setbacks, and the finished condition each area has to reach. The excavation follows the drawings, not a guess made from the tailgate, so the numbers we hand back match the numbers on the sheet.
Vegetation, stumps, and debris come off first, then topsoil is stripped and stockpiled where the plan wants it returned. Organic material never ends up buried under structural fill, because roots and grass are exactly what makes a lot settle unevenly a year after the build.
Cut and fill brings the lot to rough grade: building areas raised to plan, drainage paths shaped, and surplus balanced on site or hauled when the site cannot absorb it. Rough grading is the pass every trade after it either rides on or fights, so we get it flat, firm, and draining before anyone else shows up.
Utility trenches are cut to depth with locates called in first, then backfilled and compacted in the trench so water, electric, and septic runs do not settle into a trench-shaped dip across the lot. The utility contractor sets the lines; we own the ditch and the backfill around them.
Final grade puts every area at plan elevation with water falling away from where the structure goes, checked before we pull the equipment off. The lot hands off clean to the next contractor: no soft spots, no ponding, no comeback the week after we leave.
Most dirt-work outfits go quiet once the tractor leaves. We pick up the phone, show up when we say, and come back after the first hard rain if something needs a second pass. The follow-through is the difference.
An operator we know runs your job and a vetted crew does the work, managed by GradeWerx, one company accountable from the first walkthrough to the final grade check.
COI on file before the first machine unloads. The documentation that lets builders and commercial clients release payment and gives homeowners peace of mind.
Prepared subgrade, compaction in lifts, positive drainage away from every structure, and a laser-checked final grade. We earn trust through the process, not promises. On lot prep & site excavation, that starts with read the plan before we move dirt.
Clearing, stripping, rough grade, trenching, the pad, and final grade run as a single sequence under one company, with one crew accountable for the elevations start to finish. The alternative, three separate subs each blaming the last one for the grade, is where lot budgets quietly bleed out. We keep it under one roof so there is one number and one crew to answer for it.
There is no single figure, because lot prep is really several jobs stacked into one mobilization: clearing, rough grading, a building pad, and usually a drive. We build the price from the pieces your lot actually needs, and each carries its own honest range. Clearing tends to run roughly $1,500 to $5,000 or more an acre by density, a pad commonly lands between $2,500 and $15,000 or more depending on fill and compaction, and a gravel approach adds its own length-based cost. What swings the total is equipment access, how far spoils or import fill have to travel, whether we are cutting rock on the limestone belt or conditioning clay on the Blackland side, and wet-season scheduling. We set the number on the walkthrough, line by line, and we will not put a price on a lot we have not stood on.
Whatever sits between raw ground and a construction start: clearing, demolition and haul-off coordination, topsoil strip, rough grading and cut and fill, utility trenching, the building pad, and final grade. Not every lot needs every piece, so we scope the actual pieces on site and price each one where you can see it, rather than folding it all into one vague total.
Rough grading moves the big volumes to get the site near plan elevation and shaped to drain. Finish grading is the tighter pass that dials exact final elevations and surfaces once the structure and utilities are in. Most lots need both, at different points in the build, and we tell you which one a given visit is buying.
Yes, that is the usual case. We build to the plan set and the builder's pad and grade spec, and we coordinate directly with the builder or the superintendent so the dirt work lands on their schedule instead of holding it up. When their engineer sets a number, we build to that number.
We excavate and backfill trenches for water, electric, and septic runs, with locates called before the bucket goes in the ground. The plumber or utility contractor sets and connects the lines themselves; our job is that the trench is cut to depth and the backfill is compacted so nothing settles into a soft channel later.
A straightforward residential lot is usually measured in days, while heavy clearing, deep fill, or rock at grade stretches that out. Weather is the honest variable in North Texas dirt work, since a wet week can idle a site that was ready to run, and we flag schedule shifts as they happen rather than leaving you to wonder where the crew went.
We bring lot prep & site excavation to Burleson, Celina, Midlothian, Royse City, Weatherford, and more of the DFW metroplex. All service areas →
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