Retaining Walls
We build poured concrete retaining walls that hold a cut or a fill on commercial sites, pads and ranch land. The excavation, footing, drainage and compacted backfill come with the wall.
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Concrete work at Bankston's Builders goes on ground we prepared ourselves. We pour slabs and pads on the commercial and data center sites where we did the dirt work. Our building pads and site preparation come first, so the slab sits on a pad we built. As a commercial concrete contractor, we keep the pad and the pour with one company.
Inside the commercial spaces we finish out, we polish the concrete floor. Foundations go in as part of the homes and buildings we build. The concrete follows our dirt work around Fort Worth, and our service area reaches West Texas and the Hill Country. Call or text (214) 557-5106, and we look at the job and put the quote in writing.
Tell us about the land or the building project and where it is. We look at the job and put the quote in writing.
A concrete slab is only as steady as the pad under it. On the sites we prepare, we cut and fill the pad to grade, then compact it with heavy equipment. The forms go up after that, on ground we built.
North Texas clay is why that order matters. Houston Black clay, which covers large parts of the Texas Blackland Prairie, is a good example. The federal soil description rates it high in shrink-swell, with cracks up to 4 inches wide in dry spells.
Clay like that swells as it takes on water and shrinks as it dries. On a commercial job, the plans set how the pad and the slab are built for that ground. We build the pad and pour the slab to those plans.
In a retail or commercial space, the concrete slab can be the finished floor. We polish it as part of a commercial tenant finish out, with the rest of the finish out on the same job.
The concrete polishing trade's own glossary describes the work as grinding the floor in steps with abrasive tooling. Each pass refines the cut from the pass before it. A densifier, a silicate liquid, reacts in the surface of the slab and makes it denser.
The trade grades the finished gloss in four levels, from flat to highly polished. The plans for the space pick the level. A floor with more of its stone exposed starts with heavier grinding.
July and August highs in Fort Worth average about 96 degrees, by NOAA's 1991 to 2020 normals. Heat speeds up fresh concrete. The ready-mix industry's guide says it sets faster, so finishing has to move faster too. Hot concrete also needs more water, and that extra water lowers strength.
So summer pours follow the industry's hot weather practice. Pours go in during the cooler part of the day where the schedule allows. On hot, dry days, the ground under the slab and the forms get dampened before the concrete arrives.
Curing starts as soon as finishing is done and keeps the new slab moist. The ready-mix guides call for at least 3 to 7 days, or what the project specs require. Concrete left to dry out can lose as much as half its potential strength, the same guides say.
Call or text for a written quote. We work about 300 miles around Fort Worth across DFW, West Texas and the Hill Country.
(214) 557-5106From the first call or text to the finished work, here is how it goes.
Call or text (214) 557-5106, or send the form. Tell us what the project is, where the land or the building sits and when you need it done.
We go over the tract or the space, the plans and the access for heavy equipment. On dirt work we also look at the ground and where the water runs.
The scope and the price go in writing before any work starts. The quote spells out what gets cleared, cut, built or finished.
Machines and crews come in on the set date. On a dirt job the work runs in order: clearing, the pad or the road, the trenches, then the drainage. On a build, the trades follow the schedule.
The ground is left graded and compacted to the plan, ready for concrete, a building or a rig. On a finish out or a custom home, the work runs through to the finished space.
Common questions about concrete work around Fort Worth and the rest of our Texas service area. If yours is not here, call or text and ask.
We build poured concrete retaining walls that hold a cut or a fill on commercial sites, pads and ranch land. The excavation, footing, drainage and compacted backfill come with the wall.
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We finish out retail and commercial spaces as one job: roofing, HVAC, polished concrete, drywall, insulation, doors, cabinets and countertops. One company manages every trade from the bare shell to the finished space.
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High-end custom homes for select clients, from the pad to the finished house: stonework, custom iron doors, stone arches, fireplaces, custom kitchens, baths and closets. The dirt work and the build stay with one company.
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We clear trees and brush off ranch land and building sites with heavy equipment, roots and all. The ground is left ready for the pad or road that comes next.
Learn MoreExcavators, dozers, compactors and skid steers do the work, run by crews with real expertise on each machine. The jobs are sized to match: multi-acre clearing, commercial pads, long roads and oilfield locations.
The pad, the concrete and the building can all run through the same company. A custom home starts on a pad we cut and compacted. A commercial project can go from raw land to a finished tenant space.
Developers, oil and gas operators, data center builders and ranch owners all bring us ground to move. Each site gets its own scope, whether that is a detention pond, a lease road or a campus pad.
Tell us about the land or the building and where it sits. We look at the job, then put the scope and the price in writing before any work starts.
What does a retaining wall cost in Texas? Market ranges per square foot and per linear foot, and how height, drainage, clay and permits move the price.
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What does a building pad cost in Texas? Market ranges for house and commercial pads, fill dirt by the cubic yard, soil reports and compaction tests.
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What a commercial tenant finish out costs per square foot in Texas: 2026 office and retail ranges, TI allowances, sales tax and Fort Worth permits.
Read more →Tell us about the land, the pad, the road or the building and where it sits. Call or text (214) 557-5106, or send the form and we will get back to you with the next step.
Tell us about the land or the building project and where it is. We look at the job and put the quote in writing.