About
Who runs Gleason Grade, what the blog covers, how articles are researched and checked, and how to reach the people who write them.
What you are looking at is a working blog. Old pieces stay up in the archive rather than quietly disappearing, including the ones that have aged badly.
Most of what is written about site grading is written by people who have never had to live with the results. Gleason Grade is the opposite arrangement, and that is the whole idea behind it.
Each piece sits under exactly one heading. Readers arriving from search mostly land in site grading, drainage and runoff and driveways and access roads, so those sections get looked after first.
There is no house byline here. Each piece is signed, and each signature leads to everything else that person has put their name to.
Roy Duffield, Founding grading contractor. Roy has run an excavator and a dozer for over twenty years, starting with basement digs on his father's crew before taking over the business himself. He writes about grading the way he explains a job to a homeowner standing in the mud next to him.
Marisela Ortiz, Civil engineer and drainage writer. Marisela spent eleven years stamping site plans for a municipal engineering firm before she got tired of watching good drainage designs get value-engineered out of the final build. She writes about the gap between a stamped plan and what actually gets graded.
Colton Reyes, Driveway and equipment writer. Colton learned road base by fixing the private drives a rural county would never touch, one load of gravel at a time. He writes about driveways, access roads, and the machines that build them from the operator's seat, not a spec sheet.
There are questions we routinely decline. Anything that depends on facts only you can see, and anything where being wrong would cost you real money on our say so.
Each article answers one question about site grading and then stops. Padding a page to look thorough is the easiest way to waste a reader's afternoon.
Nobody has editorial input except the people whose names are on the articles. That includes anyone who has ever sent us money.
How claims get checked and how money is disclosed is written down separately, on the editorial policy page.
The site pays for itself through a small number of outbound links. It has never been enough to change what gets written, and the day it is, we will say so here.
Point at the sentence. Write to info@gleasongrade.com or use the contact page. Factual errors are fixed quickly, and when a correction changes the conclusion of a piece we say so at the foot of the page rather than editing quietly.
