Dirt Work & Site Prep Texas Hill Country

Dirt work — also called site prep, grading, or earthwork — is the foundation phase of every construction project. It includes stripping topsoil, cutting and filling to design elevations, building pad sites, shaping drainage swales, compacting subgrade, and finishing to the spec required by the next contractor. On a typical Hill Country project we run dozers and excavators in sequence: clear and strip, rough grade, drainage, compaction, finish grade.

The Hill Country adds two layers of complexity most other regions don't have: rocky, shallow soils sitting on limestone (which often requires rock grinding to hit elevation), and clay-heavy zones that need careful drainage planning to avoid foundation problems down the road. We handle both.

Fully insured crews that work to written elevation specs. Skipping or shortcutting dirt work hurts every later trade — foundations need properly compacted base and driveways need to drain correctly.

Home and barn pad sites, commercial pad sites, driveway and access-road grading, equestrian arena leveling, drainage swales and detention basins, fill placement, and rough/finish grading after land clearing. Residential acreage, working ranches, small developments, and commercial sites.

On-site walk with you (and your builder if applicable), review of plans or owner-marked elevations, a quote. The scope of work and quote are agreed before we start. Work proceeds in stages — clear and strip, cut and fill, drainage, compaction, finish grade — with photos at each stage and a final walk-through to confirm the pad is ready for the next trade.