Slope and Erosion Control
Calculating the Odds a Retaining Wall Actually Needs
A homeowner asked me last year whether he really needed a retaining wall for a four foot grade change on his property, or...
Founding grading contractor, page 8 of 9
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.
Slope and Erosion Control
A homeowner asked me last year whether he really needed a retaining wall for a four foot grade change on his property, or...
Site Grading
Every grading quote I write down is a bet, and I tell clients that directly instead of pretending otherwise.
Grading Equipment
I get asked to settle this argument between spouses, contractors, and neighbors more often than any other equipment question.
Slope and Erosion Control
Somewhere between "put down some straw" and "cover the whole bank in boulders" sits the actual decision most people need to...
Drainage and Runoff
Every basement leak I have ever traced back to its cause, and I have traced a lot of them over two decades of doing this, ends...
Site Grading
Most people hear "cut and fill" for the first time on the day a grading contractor hands them an invoice that is bigger than...