Lot Clearing in Spartanburg, SC

Clear to the plan, not the property line

We start from the site plan. The house footprint, the working room around it, the drive and the routes for water and power are cleared to soil. Stumps and root mat come out there, because they rot under a slab or a drive. The rest of the lot can often stay wooded, or be thinned and mulched.

Clearing only what is needed keeps shade on the house, privacy from the neighbors and roots holding the soil on the edges. It also means less to haul. Our main land clearing page covers the method step by step.

Keeping trees on a building lot

A tree worth keeping needs more than its trunk left alone. Its roots spread under the ground around it. Machines driving there, or fill piled over the roots, can kill it slowly. So we mark the trees that stay, and keep traffic and fill off the ground beneath them where the plan allows.

Some trees are too close to the house to keep, however good they look. We will tell you which ones, so you decide before the machine arrives rather than after.

Subdivision lots

A subdivision lot often comes with rules. Covenants or an architectural review board may limit which trees can come down and when. Check them before clearing, and get any approval in writing. The surveyor's stakes and pins need to survive the job, so we work around them.

Spartanburg County runs a land disturbance permit whose application covers clearing and lot work on residential lots. Inside a city, ask that city too. Rules change, so confirm before work starts. Silt fence and a stone entrance keep the clay on the lot and off the street.

After the lot is cleared

Clearing leads straight into the pad. See house pad construction in Spartanburg for that step. If you are setting a budget, read what drives land clearing cost in Spartanburg County. For everything else we do in the county, see the Spartanburg service area page.