Gravel Driveways
New gravel driveways and extensions for homes and land around Burlington. We also regrade worn driveways and top them with fresh crush and run.
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Land grading shapes the ground so rain runs where you want it. Around Burlington, that usually means away from the house and off the yard. We regrade yards that hold water and set level pads for new homes and garages. On a wooded lot, land clearing comes first, and the grading follows.
Grading is one part of our work as an excavation contractor based in Burlington. We have the equipment to grade one soggy yard or a full building site. Call or text (336) 516-7170, and we will come look at the ground. You get a free quote in writing before any dirt moves.
Tell us about the septic system, lot, driveway, teardown or home project and where it is. We look at the job and put your free quote in writing.
Burlington gets about 47 inches of rain in a normal year, and summer is the wettest season. Much of the ground around the city is Cullen and Enon soil, with clay below the topsoil. The federal soil survey rates Enon slow to soak up water and high for runoff. In a hard rain, the extra water runs across the top and gathers in low spots.
Near the house, trouble often starts with the backfill, the soil pushed back against the foundation. That soil can settle over time, until the ground tips toward the wall. Then roof water collects by the foundation, and a crawl space can stay damp.
Yard grading fixes the slope itself. We move soil from the high spots to the low ones until the ground falls away from the house. Where the lot is too tight for that, a shallow swale carries the water around the house.
A new home or shop needs a level, firm pad to sit on. Site grading sets that pad and shapes the land around it so water drains away. On a sloped lot, that means cutting the high side and filling the low side. The path for a gravel driveway can be shaped at the same time.
Before you pick the pad site, look the lot up on FRIS, the state's online flood map. Rough grading then sets the general shape of the site. Fill under a pad stays firm when it goes down in thin layers, each packed tight before the next. With the pad set, footing excavation for the foundation can start.
Finish grading comes last, once the building is up. It slopes the ground away from the house, as the state's residential code requires. The yard is then ready for seed or sod. State law asks for cover on bare graded slopes within 21 calendar days after each phase of grading.
On the first visit, we look at where the water comes from and where it can leave the lot. Roof water and the slope of the land next door both play a part. Then we put the quote in writing before any work is scheduled.
Before any grading starts, North Carolina law requires notice to NC 811 at least three full working days ahead. The utilities then mark their buried lines. Private lines, such as the run from the meter to the house, are not marked by NC 811.
Larger jobs fall under one more state rule. Grading that will disturb more than one acre on a tract needs an approved erosion and sedimentation control plan. The plan is filed 30 or more days before the work begins. Inside Burlington, the city runs that program, and in the rest of Alamance County the state does.
Call or text for a written quote. We work about 55 miles around Burlington across the Piedmont.
(336) 516-7170From the first call or text to the finished work, here is how it goes.
Call or text (336) 516-7170 with the address and the job. We set a time to come look.
We come out to see the site and how equipment gets in. On septic work, the county permit shows what goes in and where.
You get a free quote in writing, with the work spelled out. When you say yes, we set a date.
State law calls for an NC811 ticket three full working days before digging. Septic work also waits for the county's Construction Authorization.
We do the work in the quote. On a septic job, the county inspects the system before it is covered with soil.
Common questions about land grading around Burlington and the surrounding Piedmont. If yours is not here, call or text and ask.
New gravel driveways and extensions for homes and land around Burlington. We also regrade worn driveways and top them with fresh crush and run.
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We dig footings to the plan for new homes, additions, garages and porches around Burlington. The trenches are ready for the footing inspection before any concrete goes in.
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We take down houses, garages, barns and sheds around Burlington and haul off what comes down. Call or text for a free quote in writing.
Learn MoreLand clearing, grading, the gravel driveway and the septic system can all go on one quote. You deal with one company for all of it.
A text works as well as a call, and photos of the site help us see the job. Reach us at (336) 516-7170.
Burlington sits at the center of our service area. Septic and excavation work reaches about 55 miles out, Greensboro and Durham included.
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Tell us about the septic system, lot, driveway, teardown or home project and where it is. We look at the job and put your free quote in writing.