Building pad & site prep in Conroe — pad-ready ground scheduled to your slab date.
From standing timber to a stakeable pad: clearing, grubbing, driveway cut and rough grade, coordinated with your builder.
From $3500 · Pad footprint fully grubbed — roots out, not buried.
The problem
Your builder gave you a slab date and a spec sheet: cleared footprint plus 20 feet, grubbed of roots, rough-graded, with an all-weather drive the concrete trucks can actually reach.
Miss that spec and the slab crew walks — a buried root ball under a slab is a crack you'll meet in five years, and a soft driveway means a stuck concrete truck and a re-pour charge on your bill.
We clear and mulch the whole parcel, then grub the pad footprint clean — roots hauled out, not turned under — cut the drive with compacted base, and rough-grade to the site plan so your builder's first visit is a sign-off, not a punch list.
What’s included
- Clearing and mulching of the full home-site area
- Pad footprint grubbed — stumps and roots removed, not buried
- Driveway cut with compacted road base for truck access
- Rough grading to the builder's site plan
- Coordination directly with your builder's superintendent
Our process
- 1Send us the site plan — we quote from the plan plus a site walk
- 2Clearing and mulching of the lot, keep-trees flagged and saved
- 3Pad grubbed, drive cut and based, rough grade established
- 4Builder walk-through before final invoice
Transparent pricing
| Pad clearing + grubbing (house footprint + 20 ft) | from $3,500 |
| Driveway cut with compacted base | from $18 / linear ft |
| Full-parcel clear + pad package (1–2 acres) | $6,500–$12,000 |
Frequently asked questions
Do you work to the builder's spec sheet?
Yes — send the site plan and spec before the walk. We grub the footprint to spec, and we're used to the checklists the production builders working the 249 and I-45 corridors hand out.
Why can't you just mulch the pad footprint too?
Mulch and root mass under a slab settle, and settling cracks slabs. The pad footprint gets grubbed — roots physically removed — while the rest of the parcel keeps the erosion-controlling mulch layer. Two different jobs, both done right.