Clearing, grading, drainage and access handled as one job on one schedule, so a raw parcel comes out the other side ready to build on. One crew, one number, one point of contact.
Every service on this site is a stage of the same process. Site development is buying the process instead of the stages.
Taking raw land to buildable isn’t one job, it’s four, and they have to happen in a particular order. Clear it. Shape it. Sort the water. Get access in. Do them out of sequence and you pay to redo work. A pad built before the drainage is worked out, a drive cut in before the machines have finished tracking over it.
The real saving is trip. Getting truck, trailer and machines to a property and back costs the same whether they do one job or four. Four separate visits pay that four times.
The other thing you get is a single point of contact. When the grading affects where the drive can go, that’s one conversation rather than three contractors each explaining why it’s somebody else’s problem.
Combining only saves money when the jobs belong together.
Five steps, and the first two happen before a machine leaves the yard.
Worth knowing before you call:
Five Central Florida counties out of Titusville. Multi-stage work is where the ground differences between them matter most, so the county pages are worth a read.
Growth and root mass out, ground taken to bare soil.
See land clearing →Stage twoLevels set and water given somewhere to go.
See grading →Stage threeFill up, compacted, at the elevation your plan calls for.
See building pads →Stage fourAccess cut in, culvert set, base compacted.
See driveways →Clear, shape, water, access. Clearing first because nothing can be measured or built around standing growth. Grading next because it sets the levels everything else references. Drainage before anything permanent covers it. The drive last, so it’s not being chewed up by machines still working behind it.
Yes, and plenty of people do. Usually clearing now and the rest when the plan or the budget firms up. Just know that each separate visit carries its own trip, so staged work costs more in total than the same scope done in one block.
Yes, and it makes everyone’s life easier. Your builder or engineer sets elevations, footprint and the date they need the site by; we work to those. What we’ll not do is guess at a number somebody else is responsible for.
Further than for a single service. A multi-stage job needs a continuous block of time rather than a day here and there, and those blocks fill first. Particularly February through May when everybody wants work finished before the rains.
Surveys, staking, engineering and drawings, and anything that falls to a separately licensed trade. Septic, utility connections, structural work. We do the earthwork. We’ll tell you early which specialists you need lined up, because their schedules usually drive yours.
Yes, broken out by stage so you can see what each part costs. That way dropping the driveway or deferring the pad is a simple decision rather than a renegotiation of the whole job.
Most quotes come back the same day. No deposit, and the price we agree on is the price you pay.