Ernul, NC · Craven County · Fully insured
We read the ground before we move it.
Land clearing, grading, building pads, final grades, sod and patios — for properties across New Bern, Ernul, Vanceboro and Havelock.
The signature problem
It all comes down to where the water goes.
Craven County ground is flat, sandy, and sits close to the water table. A building pad, a final grade, a driveway, a patio — every one of them is really the same question: where does the water go when it rains?
Get that wrong and the pad holds water, the yard stays soft into June, the drive ruts out, and the patio somebody paid good money for starts to settle at one corner.
So every job starts with the same walk: find the low spot, find the fall, and work out where the water is already trying to go before deciding where it's going instead.
One example: a canal bank giving up ground, armored and stabilized. Two days between these photographs.
What we do
From standing timber to somewhere you'd want to sit.
Land & brush clearing
Overgrown lots, fence lines, timber and stumps. Cleared, hauled, and left ready for whatever comes next.
Grading & building pads
House pads, shop and building pads, site prep. Cut and fill to a grade that sheds water instead of holding it.
Final grades & sod
The last pass before anything green goes down — then sod laid tight to a surface that drains.
Patios, walkways & walls
Paver patios and walkways, retaining walls and fire pits, built on base we prepared ourselves.
Drainage & culverts
Swales, ditch lines, culvert crossings, French drains and downspout tie-ins. The work you only notice when it's missing.
Driveways & gravel roads
New gravel drives, private lanes, aprons and repairs — built on a base that holds through a wet spring.
Dump truck hauling
Our own 16-ton tandem Mack. Dirt, gravel, stone, mulch and debris — hauled in or hauled off. Nobody waits on a subcontractor's truck to show up.
Mowing & bush hogging
Regular mowing and trimming, plus bush hogging for fields, lots and fence lines that got away from you.
Mulch, rock & pinestraw
Landscape rock, mulch and pinestraw — hauled in on our own truck, spread, beds edged and cut clean.
How we build
Anybody can set the stone.
A patio doesn't fail at the surface. It fails underneath — at the base, at the compaction, at the pitch that was never cut in the first place. Two years later the corner drops, the joints open, and it isn't the pavers' fault.
We were doing grading and drainage long before we were laying stone, so the part nobody sees gets built like it matters. We set on washed #78 stone rather than bedding sand — sand holds water and washes out of the joints; open stone lets it drain straight through. Same reasoning as everything else on this page.
- TopPavers or stone — set on screeded washed #78 stone, edge-restrained
- BaseCompacted aggregate — placed in lifts, compacted each lift
- SubPrepared subgrade — cut to a grade that carries water off
- BelowDrainage — where the water is going once it gets there
Mid-build. The part that decides whether it's still flat in five years.
Same property · Twenty days later
Then it's just a good place to sit.
Grading · Sod · Walkway
Recent work
Craven County ground.
“Reliable, respectable, and you will not be disappointed.”
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Tell us what the ground is doing.
Standing water, a drive that's washing out, a lot that needs clearing, or a patio you've been putting off. Call and describe it — or text a photo and we'll tell you what we see.