If you are a builder or contractor lining up a lot, we clear and grade it to pad-ready condition on your timeline, not around one. Site prep covers clearing what is on the lot, grading it to spec, and leaving a surface your crew can build on without surprises once they show up.
What Is Included
Clearing the Build Site
Brush, trees, and debris cleared off the lot so the footprint is open and workable.
Grading to Spec
The pad graded to the elevation and drainage your project calls for.
Working to Your Schedule
We coordinate around your build schedule so the lot is ready when your crew is, not a week after.
Why Builders Work With Us
A delayed lot holds up everyone behind it — the foundation crew, the framers, the schedule you already committed to a client. We work directly with builders and GCs to get a lot from overgrown to pad-ready without becoming the reason a project falls behind. For heavier vegetation on the lot, see land clearing.
How a Site Prep Job Typically Moves
Most site prep jobs follow the same order. We walk the lot with you – or your super – first to confirm the pad location, drainage direction, and anything that needs to come out before equipment moves in. From there we clear what’s in the footprint, rough-grade to get the pad close, then fine-grade to the elevation and drainage your plans call for.
If the lot backs up to heavier timber or brush beyond the building footprint, that’s a separate scope – usually handled as a land clearing job run alongside site prep, so the crew isn’t waiting on two different subs to show up on two different days. We coordinate the sequence with your timeline, not the other way around.
We take on site prep and grading work for builders around Foreman, Hope, and De Queen, along with the rest of the Ashdown-to-Texarkana corridor. If you’ve got a lot lined up in that area and a crew waiting behind it, get in touch early so we can plan around your schedule.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do you work directly with our foundation crew or just the builder?
We coordinate with whoever is managing the schedule – builder, GC, or foundation sub – so the pad is ready when the next crew needs it. Tell us who to loop in when you request a quote.
What if the lot needs clearing before it can be graded?
That’s common, and we handle both. If the lot has brush or trees inside the pad footprint, we clear it as part of the same job. Heavier wooded lots get scoped as a land clearing job first, then graded once it’s open.
Can you match a specific pad elevation or drainage plan from our engineer?
Yes. Send us the specs or plans you’re working from and we grade to that, not just to what looks about right.
Do you grade for driveways and access roads too, or only building pads?
Both fall under site prep. If you need a formal gravel driveway built to the pad once grading is done, that’s a related but separate step – see gravel driveway building.
What does site prep and grading include?
Site prep and grading covers getting a lot from raw ground to a buildable pad: clearing brush and trees out of the building footprint, rough grading, then fine grading to the elevation and drainage the project calls for. We coordinate the work around your build schedule so the pad is ready when your crew is.
Send us the lot address and your target start date through the quote form below, and we’ll tell you what it takes to get the pad ready.
Request a Quote for Your Project
Send us the lot location, the pad you need, and your timeline.
Prefer to talk it through first? Call 870-776-7226.