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Trenching, cut and fill, pad preparation and grading across Montgomery County. The grade decides where water goes, so we set it around the drainage rather than the other way round.
Residential and commercial | Since 2014 | Free site visit
Address, rough scope, and drawings if you have them.
Earthwork on residential lots and commercial sites, usually as part of a drainage or concrete scope.
Land grading and reshaping to establish falls
Cut, fill and pad preparation for new builds
Utility trenching, bedding, backfill and reinstatement
Demolition, breakout, removal and haul off
Site preparation ahead of concrete
Small elevation differences decide everything on a Gulf Coast lot. A slope you cannot see by eye is enough to send runoff at a foundation instead of away from it.
So we establish the grade around where water needs to end up, then build to it. Doing it the other way round is how you get a beautifully finished site that ponds after the first real storm.
Earthwork is priced on volume, access and what happens to the material, which is why two jobs of the same square footage can differ by a factor of three.
Scope
Typical range
What drives it
The main driver
Cut and fill quantities, and whether the site balances.
Often the surprise
Reused on site is cheap. Hauling off is a per load cost.
Can double a small job
A back yard reached through a side gate is a different job from open ground.
Per load
Whether the site needs material brought in to reach the required levels.
We walk the site before pricing because these four things are not visible from an address or a drawing alone.
AE Excavation LLC has worked excavation, drainage and concrete across Montgomery County since 2014. The person who walks the site is the person running the machines on it.
Fill placed and never compacted. It looks finished, then settles over the first wet season and takes whatever was built on it down with it.
A grade set to look flat rather than to move water. Flat is not the goal. A consistent fall toward somewhere water can leave is the goal, and the difference is invisible until it rains.
Trenches backfilled with the spoil that came out of them, when that spoil is clay that will not compact. The trench line then sinks and becomes the new low point.
Site prep sequenced after the drainage design instead of with it, so the levels the drainage assumed no longer exist by the time anyone checks.
Excavation is moving soil. Grading is establishing the levels and falls the finished site needs. Most jobs involve both, and the grade is what determines where water ends up.
It depends on area, how much material has to move, access for machines and whether material is imported or hauled off. We price after walking the site.
Yes. Pad preparation, cut and fill, trenching and the grading that the drainage design depends on.
Yes, trenching, bedding, backfill and reinstatement, on both residential and commercial sites.
Either. Reusing material on site is considerably cheaper where the levels allow it, so we look at whether the site can balance before assuming haul off.
Usually. Access decides which machine goes in and therefore how long it takes, so it is one of the first things we check on the site visit.
Driveways, slabs and flatwork over prepared, drained subgrade.
Site drainage, detention and earthwork for commercial property.
Standing water, grading and downspout runoff diagnosed and fixed.
Magnolia, The Woodlands, Tomball, Conroe and Spring, plus Porter, Humble, Kingwood, Waller and the rest of Montgomery County.
