Flat ground,
where there wasn't any.
Pads cut, filled and compacted to spec — on mountain ground that started at anything but level.
A house pad on a slope is a cut-and-fill problem with a compaction requirement. Get the fill wrong and the structure finds out later.
We cut into the bank rather than building out over fill wherever the site allows it, compact in lifts, and handle the water coming off the ground above before it reaches the pad.
What you get
- Cut and fill to plan elevation
- Compaction in lifts, not dump and level
- Uphill drainage intercepted above the pad
- Cut banks stabilised or walled
- Access built for the trades that follow
How It Runs
What actually happens on site.
- Set the elevationWorking to the plans and to what the grade actually allows.
- Cut and fillCut into the bank in preference to filling out, wherever the site permits.
- Compact in liftsFill placed and compacted in layers, not dumped and levelled.
- Handle the uphill waterDrainage above the pad, before it becomes a foundation problem.
On the ground
Questions
Asked about this job.
Can you build a pad on a steep lot?
Most of what we do is on grade. How much cut versus fill a lot needs is the first thing we work out, because it drives both the cost and how the structure sits.
Free Estimate
Get a price for house pads.
Where it is, how long the drive is, how steep it gets and what it is doing now. We come out, walk it, and give you a real number.
Call McKinley direct (828) 540-6856- Free on-site estimates across WNC and the Upstate
- One crew from clearing through to the last load of stone
- Drainage designed in, not sold to you afterwards