New drives cut into wooded or overgrown property, and existing ones reshaped when they’ve rutted, washed or grown in.
Cutting access into a wooded or overgrown parcel is often the first thing that has to happen, before the survey, before the build, sometimes before anybody can properly look at what they’ve bought. It’s also the part people forget to budget for.
Rutted, washed, potholed or closing in with growth. Reshaping an existing drive is considerably cheaper than cutting a new one, and doing it before the base is destroyed is cheaper still.
A drive that holds water down the middle destroys itself, and adding rock to a flat drive just buries the problem for one season. The fix is shape, crowning it so water sheds sideways. That’s most of what regrading actually is.
If your approach needs a pipe under it, that’s another contractor and often a permit from the road authority.
Order it delivered: a materials supplier already running trucks to your area will beat us on price every time. We’ll spread it.
A new access onto a county or state road usually needs a permit, and the approach may have to meet a standard.
Drives get cut over boundaries more often than you’d think.
Free, required, and a few working days.
Not your truck: the concrete truck, the well driller, the moving van, the fire truck.
No. We cut, clear and shape. Culvert installation is a separate contractor and the approach may need a permit from whoever owns the road.
No. Have it delivered by a materials supplier, they’re already running trucks near you and they’ll be cheaper. We’ll spread and level it.
Twelve feet of running surface is a sensible minimum, plus clearance either side and overhead. Think about the largest vehicle that will ever need to reach the house, not the one you drive.
Almost always because it’s flat or dished rather than crowned, so water runs down it instead of off it. Adding rock to a flat drive is money buried.
We can shape it to shed water. We can’t build a crossing over a defined channel or regulated wetland, and we’ll flag it if that’s what your route needs.
Call and you get John Williams, not an answering service and not a dispatcher. If it’s after hours or a Sunday, send the form and you’ll have a text back and a callback first thing.
