Light Excavation & Grading
Regrading, contouring, and drainage correction — moving water away from a house before it becomes the expensive kind of problem.
Light Excavation & Grading · East Lansing, MIWhat this actually involves
A surprising share of the calls we get start as a landscape question and turn out to be a water question. Ground pitched back toward the house, a low spot that holds standing water all spring, downspouts dumping at the foundation. Contouring the site for proper flow is often the first thing that has to happen — before the plants, before the patio.
Get the water right first. Everything installed on top of a drainage problem eventually becomes part of the drainage problem.
What is included
- Site contouring so surface water flows away from the structure
- Low-spot correction and swale work on properties that hold water
- Light excavation supporting patio, wall, and planting installations
- Downspout discharge carried clear of the foundation
- Post-construction cleanup and restoration of decimated yards
Every completed project carries a 1-year labor and material warranty. Discounts for military, veterans, senior citizens, and first responders.
The rest of this discipline
Patios, walks, walls, and fire features built on the base and drainage that a Michigan freeze-thaw cycle demands.
Paver Patios & Walkways
Patios, walks, and driveways built on a proper compacted base — the part nobody sees and the only part that decides whether it stays flat.
Retaining Walls
Segmental and natural stone walls built with the drainage and reinforcement the soil load actually requires.
Fire Pits & Outdoor Living
Fire pits, seat walls, pergolas, and the patio that ties them together into a room you will actually use.
Everything else we do
Landscape Design
Measured drawings and a planting plan built around your house, your soil, and how you actually use the yard — not a catalogue layout.
Year-Round Consultations
We sit down with homeowners in every month of the year — including the ones when nothing is growing and the schedule is still wide open.
Landscape Installation
The full build — beds, plantings, grading, sod, mulch, and hardscape — installed by our own crew, one project at a time.
Tree & Shrub Planting
The right species, in the right place, planted at the right depth — the three things that decide whether a tree is alive in ten years.
Light Excavation & Grading in the Greater Lansing area.
Tell us about the property and we will arrange a consultation. We consult year-round — including the months nobody else will book you.