Road Building
We build private, ranch, lease and haul roads on a compacted base with a gravel or caliche surface. Ditches and culverts move water off and under the road.
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Land grading shapes the ground to the elevations on a plan. The high spots get cut and the low spots get filled. The finished surface falls the way the water needs to go. Bankston's Builders does land grading for building lots, commercial sites, oilfield locations and ranch tracts across Texas. As the grading contractor, we do the rough grading and the finish grading with heavy equipment our operators know well.
On raw land, land clearing comes first and grading follows it. For a developer, we can level a row of lots and bring each one to its pad height. Grading is one part of our dirt work around Fort Worth. That work runs out to the Permian Basin and the Texas Hill Country. Call or text (214) 557-5106 and tell us about the site.
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 grading contractor moves dirt until the ground matches the plan. The plan gives a target height for the pad, the lot or the road. We cut where the ground sits high and fill where it sits low.
Rough grading comes first. Dozers and excavators make the big cuts and fills and shape the slopes. The site ends up close to its plan grades. Finish grading brings the surface to its final height.
Loose fill settles, so we place it in layers and compact each one before the next goes down. Texas law names grading in its definition of excavation at 16 inches or deeper. Work that deep needs a Texas 811 locate request at least 48 hours ahead, not counting weekends and holidays.
Part of Tarrant County is Grand Prairie, with shallow clay over layers of limestone and marl. The federal soil survey describes Sanger clay, common on the Grand Prairie, as very slowly permeable. In a dry spell it opens cracks up to 3 inches wide. Water that lands on ground like that sits until the grade carries it off.
The Dallas-Fort Worth normal is about 37 inches of rain a year, and May and October are the wettest months. A lot with no fall shows its low spots after the first spring storm. Grading for drainage gives every part of the site a path downhill and off the pad.
The building codes set that fall. Texas law adopts the International Residential Code as the residential building code for cities. That code wants the ground to drop at least 6 inches in the first 10 feet from a foundation. The International Building Code asks for a 5 percent slope for 10 feet around a commercial building. Where a slope alone cannot move the water, ditches and culverts take over as site drainage work.
Leveling a lot means bringing the whole building area to one planned height. On a ranch, the same work levels a tract for a barn or an equipment yard. The leveled ground still needs fall at its edges so rain leaves the site.
Cuts and slopes come with leveling. A cut slope stands on the high side of the lot and a fill slope on the low side. On the Grand Prairie, a deep cut can hit limestone, which changes the plan. Flatter slopes hold grass and wash less in a hard rain.
The building pad on a graded site is site preparation work. The slab on top of it is concrete work. Our work stops at the graded surface. Landscaping and sod belong to another trade.
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 land grading around Fort Worth and the rest of our Texas service area. If yours is not here, call or text and ask.
We build private, ranch, lease and haul roads on a compacted base with a gravel or caliche surface. Ditches and culverts move water off and under the road.
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As part of the site work, we dig trenches for water lines and electrical conduit, then backfill and compact them. A licensed plumber or a licensed electrician makes the hookups.
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We cut ditches and swales and set culverts that carry storm water off pads and roads. We also build stock tanks, ponds, dams and detention basins with heavy equipment.
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.
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.
