Dirt removal and grading delivery in Mountain Brook, AL

Haul-off jobs in Mountain Brook are pool digs, footing spoil, and lots that were graded toward the house instead of away from it. Clean clay is cheap to get rid of because other jobs want it as fill. Dirt mixed with roots, stumps or concrete costs more. A regrade around Crestline usually runs a half day to a day of skid steer time.

Dirt removal and grading jobs in Mountain Brook

Mountain Brook was laid out across the wooded south slope of Red Mountain and the ravines that drain to Shades Creek and, on the east side, the Cahaba River. Lots are steep and heavily treed with thin, rocky soil on the ridges and red clay with shale in the hollows; Shades Creek and Watkins Brook bottoms in Mountain Brook Village and Crestline are flood-prone. Cherokee Bend and Overton sit on rolling ground toward the Cahaba with better-drained but still clay-heavy soil. Older estates frequently need fill for eroded slopes, failed terraces and drainage swales.

What it is for

• Hauling off the spoil from a pool, basement or footing dig
• Stripping and removing an old lawn or a bad layer of fill
• Spreading and leveling delivered dirt
• Regrading a yard so water runs away from the house

This is not junk removal. Dirt mixed with construction debris, concrete or trash is a different job and a different price; say what is in the pile.

Getting the truck in

Winding, narrow residential streets without curbs, low tree canopy and long private driveways limit truck size; some properties have gated drives and most have little room to stage a pile off the street.