We take homesites from raw or sloped ground to a compacted, buildable pad — cut and fill to the grading plan, moisture-conditioned and compacted lifts, and coordination with your soils engineer for compaction testing and pad certification. Custom homes, ADUs, garages, barns, and fire rebuilds.
Custom home and garage pads cut, filled, compacted, and fine-graded to plan — coordinated with your civil and soils engineers.
Backyard ADU pads are booming across LA and Ventura counties. We handle access, grading, and trenching for utilities in one mobilization.
Vegetation removal, demo of old flatwork, and defensible-space clearing to get a parcel construction-ready.
Re-grading and pad recertification support for rebuild projects across the region's recent burn areas — we understand the debris-removal handoff and county rebuild process.
Swales, positive drainage away from structures, and rough grading that keeps winter water where it belongs.
Final grades for hardscape, landscape, and flatwork — clean tolerances your concrete and landscape contractors will thank you for.
Graded building pad with compaction equipment — wide shot, Moorpark
ADU pad cut into a sloped backyard — before/after
Water truck and roller compacting engineered fill
Lenders, builders, and building departments increasingly want engineered fill placed in tested lifts with a soils engineer's certification. We grade with the testing schedule in mind — moisture-conditioning fill, compacting in lifts, and calling the tester at the right stages — so certification is a formality, not a fight.
A pad where engineered fill was placed and compacted in tested lifts, verified by a licensed soils engineer who issues a compaction report the building department accepts. We grade to the engineer's spec and schedule the testing stages with them.
It depends on volume, cut/fill depth, and jurisdiction — many Southern California jurisdictions require grading permits above roughly 50 cubic yards of moved earth or beyond certain cut/fill depths, and hillside areas have stricter rules. We flag permit requirements during the free site visit. See our grading permit guide.
Yes — the same compact equipment we use for tight-access pool digs handles backyard ADU pads. One mobilization can cover clearing, pad grading, and utility trenches.
Free site visits and same-week estimates across Ventura & Los Angeles counties. Call, text, or send the job details.
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