From rough grade to finish grade, with topsoil, rock and drainage handled to bring your property together.
This is the machine end of landscaping. Not planting beds and pruning, but the earthworks a yard needs before any of the pretty parts make sense: shaping the ground, moving water off it, building the walls that hold a slope, and bringing in the topsoil to finish it.
For a lot of valley properties that is the whole job. A yard that drains, a driveway that holds up, a slope that is not sliding, and ground you can actually seed.
Water is what ruins yards here. Snowmelt against a foundation, a low spot that stays wet into June, runoff cutting a channel down a driveway. Grade and drainage are the parts nobody notices when they are right.
We set the grade to move water where it should go, put in swales, drains and rock where the volume needs handling, and only then bring in topsoil and finish. Doing it the other way round means burying the problem under six inches of good soil.
Rock walls do real work on valley properties, holding back a cut for a driveway, terracing a slope into usable yard, or armouring a bank against runoff. Placed with an excavator and a grapple, boulder walls go up faster than block and look like they belong here.
We supply and place decorative rock, riprap and gravel as part of the same job, so you are not coordinating a separate supplier and a separate machine.
A new build usually ends with a yard full of compacted subsoil, ruts and construction debris. Reclaiming that is its own piece of work: strip the mess, break up the compaction, re-establish grade, then topsoil and seed.
We do a lot of this, often on sites we excavated in the first place, which means we already know what is under the ground we are putting back together.
Water is what ruins yards here, and where the water comes from is different in each town. Grade and drainage get designed around that before any topsoil arrives.
Village lots and bench acreages. Gravel subsoil drains well, which solves half the problem for free, but it also means almost no usable topsoil, so a finished yard here is largely imported soil placed over a grade we have set. The recurring complaint in Telkwa is snowmelt running off the bench and sitting against a foundation, and that is a grading fix rather than a drainage one.
Established town yards needing reclaim, and slopes that need a wall to become usable ground. Clay subsoil holds water, so a low spot in a Smithers yard stays wet into June and no amount of good topsoil over it will change that. Swales, drains and rock here get sized for real meltwater volume coming off the hill, not for average rainfall.
Big rural yards, driveway and parking builds measured in hundreds of feet, and a lot of reclaim behind new rural construction. Space means gravel and topsoil can be stockpiled on site and placed in one pass, which is the cheapest way to do any of it.
Also working Witset, Quick, Hazelton and Round Lake, and the rest of the valley in between. If your property is somewhere not on this list, call and ask, the answer is usually yes.
The machine end of landscaping. Grading, drainage, rock walls, topsoil and gravel, rather than planting beds and pruning. On a lot of valley properties the earthworks are the whole job.
Grade first, drainage second. We set the ground to move water where it should go and add swales, drains and rock where the volume needs handling. Topsoil goes on last, because good soil spread over an unsolved low spot just buries the problem.
Boulder walls placed with an excavator and a grapple go up faster than block, handle our frost and runoff well, and look like they belong here. Where a wall is retaining a real load, have it engineered.
Yes, supply and place, as part of the same job. Topsoil, decorative rock, riprap and gravel, so you are not coordinating a separate supplier and a separate machine around each other.
A lot of what we do. A new build usually finishes with compacted subsoil, ruts and construction debris. That gets stripped, the compaction broken up, the grade re-established, then topsoil and a seed bed.
