Grading
We grade yards and building sites across North Alabama so water runs away from the house. The dozer and trackhoe cut the rough grade, and a land plane on the skid steer sets the finish grade.
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French drain installation gives water a way out of a yard that stays soggy. We dig a trench with a slight slope and lay perforated pipe in gravel along the bottom. Water sinks through the gravel, gets into the pipe and runs downhill by gravity. Precision Excavation is based in Trinity and puts in French drains across North Alabama.
We also cut and clean out drainage ditches and put in driveway culverts. When the ground itself tips water toward the house, that is a job for grading. Estimates are free: call or text (256) 303-7210.
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A soggy yard is one sign you may need a French drain. Standing or pooling water in the yard or on the driveway is another. So is rain that keeps running toward a house, shop or pad. The drain catches that water and carries it off.
The trackhoe digs the trench on a steady fall. Where the drain needs an outlet, it lets the water out at daylight, away from the house. Daylight means open ground lower than the drain.
USDA soil records trace the red clay found here to limestone. Clay holds a lot of water in its fine pores. Low spots that collect runoff stay wet, and those are the spots a French drain is built for.
A drainage ditch catches water running across the ground and carries it downhill. We cut ditches along drives, property lines and fields with the trackhoe and the dozer. On a driveway, the ditch runs end to end so water stays off the drive.
Old ditch lines fill with silt, brush and cattails until they hold water. We dig them back out and give the bottom a steady fall again. Inside Huntsville city limits, stopped-up and overgrown ditches can be reported through the city's Huntsville Connect app. If the ditch is the city's, report it there first.
A driveway culvert carries ditch water under the entrance. We lay the pipe in the ditch line and cover it with rock. In Morgan County, driveway permits come from the County Highway Department or the County Engineer's office. Check with the county before a new entrance or culvert goes in.
Under the International Residential Code, lots shall be graded to drain surface water away from foundation walls. The grade has to fall at least 6 inches within the first 10 feet. Check with your city or county on which rules apply to your build.
Sometimes the shape of the ground is the whole problem. If the yard tips toward the house, regrading sets it to fall away. Where lot lines, walls or slopes leave no room for that fall, the code calls for drains or swales. They carry the water away from the building.
A French drain also fits ground where water soaks in and stays. On a new build, the drainage and the dirt work can come from one company. We build house pads with the water graded away and set French drains where the lot needs them. The ditches and culvert for a new gravel driveway can be part of the same job.
From the first call or text to the last load hauled off, here is how it goes.
Tell us what you have and where the property is. Photos of the ground help. Call or text (256) 303-7210 and we set a time to come look.
We come out and see the job in person. Trees, slope, wet spots and rock all change the work. The estimate comes after that, and it is free.
We decide which machines the job needs and in what order they work. Access, where the dirt goes and where the debris goes get settled first. Alabama 811 gets called before any digging starts.
Our lowboy brings the machines to the property and the work starts. The dump trucks bring material in and carry spoil, rock and debris out. We work in an order that keeps water running off the ground.
The debris leaves the property and the dirt gets rough graded back out. Water is shaped to run away from the pad, the drive or the house. Then we look the job over with you.
Common questions about french drains across North Alabama. If yours is not here, call or text and ask.
We grade yards and building sites across North Alabama so water runs away from the house. The dozer and trackhoe cut the rough grade, and a land plane on the skid steer sets the finish grade.
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We build new gravel driveways and farm roads, and regrade old ones that have rutted or washed out. Base cut, crown shaped, ditches cut, rock hauled in and graded out.
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We build house pads for new homes, barns, shops and metal buildings on lots across North Alabama. Fill comes in by the load, goes down in packed lifts and gets graded so water runs away from the building.
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Two dump trucks move material by the load across North Alabama. Fill dirt, topsoil, gravel, crusher run and chert come in, spoil and debris go out.
Learn MoreThe excavators, the crawler dozer, the skid steer mulcher and two dump trucks belong to the company. A lowboy trailer hauls them to your property. One call puts all of it on the job.
The same company clears the lot, cuts the pad, shapes the drive and hauls the debris away. You line up one contractor for the dirt side of the work.
North Alabama sits on limestone and chert, often close to the surface. Our trackhoes carry rippers, so rock that stops a tractor or a post hole digger comes out. It gets moved, buried or hauled off.
We are based in Trinity and work about 60 miles out, all inside Alabama. That takes in the Decatur and Huntsville area, the Shoals, Cullman and the farm country between. Estimates are free, so call or text.
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