Building a barn, shop, or new home? It starts with a solid pad and a road you can actually drive on in the rain. I cut, level, and compact pads to spec, and lay caliche or base for ranch roads and driveways that won't wash out the first storm.
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A building pad isn't just a flat spot — it's an engineered base that has to hold the slab and the structure for the life of the building. We strip topsoil, cut to grade, and bring in select fill or flex base in 6–8" lifts, compacting each lift with a sheepsfoot or vibratory roller. If your engineer specifies a 95% Standard Proctor density, we test with a nuclear gauge and document it. Skip that and your slab cracks or settles.
Caliche is the cheap, traditional Hill Country road material — locally abundant, packs well when wet, but it potholes and washboards under regular truck traffic. Flex base (Type A or D) is more expensive but holds shape under load and drains better. For a working ranch road that sees daily truck and trailer traffic, I usually spec 6" of flex base over compacted sub-grade. For a low-traffic back road, 6–8" of caliche works.
Roads die from water, not traffic. Every road I build has a 2–3% crown so water sheds to the sides, ditches on both sides where the terrain allows, and culverts under low spots so water crosses under, not over. Without drainage, even a perfect base washes out the first big rain.
Before anything else: clear cedar and brush, grub stumps, strip topsoil to stockpile, and rough-grade the building envelope and driveway corridor. We can shoot grades with a laser or GPS rover for larger sites and give you cut/fill quantities before we move dirt — no surprises.
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