Why this page exists
Publishing about site grading without saying how you work is asking for trust you have not earned. This is how we work.
Standards
How Gleason Grade chooses topics, checks claims, names writers, dates articles and handles corrections and commercial links.
Publishing about site grading without saying how you work is asking for trust you have not earned. This is how we work.
We treat dates as facts, not decoration. Refreshing a page to look current without changing its substance is a small lie we would rather not tell, so we do not touch the date unless the content genuinely moved.
We earn from some outbound links. That pays for hosting and research time, and it does not decide the verdict of any page.
We have never taken a criticism down because somebody asked, and the asking tends to tell readers more than the original complaint did.
We keep a running list of questions readers send us, plus questions we had ourselves and could not find a straight answer to. A topic gets written when it appears on that list more than once.
Nothing is published anonymously. A name on a page means somebody can be asked about it later, and that is the only accountability a small site has.
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.
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