Excavation
Site excavation, foundation and pad excavation, cut and fill, trenching and mass excavation for homes, commercial sites and development tracts across the San Antonio area, with excavators, dump trucks and skid steers.
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Wilson County ranch land fills back in fast. A pasture off FM 775 grows up in mesquite and thorny brush until the fence line disappears. The stock tank that held water for the cattle has silted in and gone shallow. An old farmhouse sits on the place with a leaning barn beside it. The ground here is deep loam over a clay subsoil, nearly flat to gently rolling. It is workable dirt for a machine, and most of these jobs start with one.
Global Contractors LLC is an excavation contractor working Floresville and the rest of Wilson County. We are based at our yard in Pleasanton, south of San Antonio. Our excavators, dump trucks and skid steers handle site excavation, building pads, trenching and grading. We also take on land clearing, stock tank work, demolition, dirt work and utilities out here. The company has done government and commercial sitework since 2006. Estimates are free. Call (253) 606-9497 and we will come look at the site.
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Wilson County covers about 800 square miles of nearly flat to gently rolling country. The Handbook of Texas describes the soils as deep and loamy with clayey subsoils. Elevations run roughly 300 to 600 feet. Somewhere between a third and 40 percent of the county is rated prime farmland. That is why peanuts, hay, sorghum and grain have grown here for generations.
The San Antonio River drains the west side of the county and passes Floresville. Cibolo and Ecleto creeks drain the east side. The soil profile matters the minute a bucket goes in the ground. Loam on top moves easily and drains. The clay under it holds water and swells when it is wet.
So we read the dirt before we cut. A pad built over clay gets moisture conditioned and compacted in lifts. A trench in loose loam may need the walls laid back for safety. Ranch roads on this ground usually want caliche or base hauled in and rolled, which is standard dirt work and grading out here.
Brush in this county runs to mesquite, blackjack and post oak, live oak, thorny shrubs and prickly pear. Mesquite and huisache come back from the root once they are cut. Take one off at the ground and it sends up several stems the next season. That is why stumps and root balls get pulled with the excavator instead of cut at grade.
Some tracts get cleared to bare dirt for a building pad, a fence line or a new driveway. Others just need the brush knocked back so cattle and deer can move through. The forestry mulcher grinds standing brush and small trees into mulch on the spot. Nothing is hauled, and the ground is left covered.
Where the wood has to go instead, the excavator loads it and the dump trucks take it off the property. Debris is either hauled off or mulched in place. On a bigger cleanup the roots and stumps come out first, then the ground gets smoothed and shaped for whatever goes on it next.
It depends on which side of the city limit line the property sits on. Inside Floresville, permits and contractor registration go through the city's Buildings and Permits department. The city works from the International Building Code and the International Residential Code. Its fee schedule lists an excavation and demolition contractor category, so the office is used to this kind of work.
Outside the city limits, Wilson County is the office to call. The county's own permit page states that Wilson County requires permits for any development, driveway or septic work. Those run through the county at Courthouse Annex II on Tenth Street in Floresville. The same office handles 911 address requests and posts the county subdivision and development regulations.
Septic is a county matter too. A TCEQ-licensed installer sets and permits the septic system itself. If the tract touches a floodplain, ask the county about its floodplain rules before dirt moves. Texas 811 gets called for line locates before we dig anywhere, and builders on new tracts still need water and sewer lines trenched and backfilled.
Floresville sits where US-181 crosses TX-97, about 30 miles southeast of San Antonio. Growth off the south side of the metro keeps pushing this way. Wilson County counted 49,753 people in the 2020 census, up 15.9 percent over 2010. The city's own site now puts Floresville near 9,000 residents. Retail has followed along the US 181 corridor.
New houses out here go up on acreage more often than on small city lots. Abrego Lake sits off US-181 north of town with home sites of an acre and up. Eagle Creek Estates, Shannon Ridge, Oak Fields and Northcrest Hills read much the same way. A lot like that needs a pad built, a driveway cut and a place for the utilities to run.
An old place on a rebuild tract is a different job. House demolition on farm property usually means the house, a barn or two and a few outbuildings. The slab and footings come out, the debris is hauled off and the lot is left graded. Pleasanton to Floresville is a straight run east on TX-97, so getting the machines and the trucks over here is simple.
Communities and areas we serve around Floresville: Abrego Lake, Eagle Creek Estates, Shannon Ridge, Oak Fields, Northcrest Hills, Bluebonnet Hills, Oak Manor Estates, River Bend, Creekwood Park, South Breeze Estates, US 181 corridor, FM 775.
Floresville ZIP codes served: 78114.
Free estimates throughout Wilson County and the surrounding area.
(253) 606-9497 Site excavation, foundation and pad excavation, cut and fill, trenching and mass excavation for homes, commercial sites and development tracts across the San Antonio area, with excavators, dump trucks and skid steers.
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Mechanical demolition for houses, garages, barns, commercial buildings, slabs and pools. We take the structure down, haul the debris off and grade the lot.
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Residential demolition for houses, mobile homes, garages, barns and sheds. We take it down, load the debris out and leave the lot graded.
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Commercial and industrial demolition for retail buildings, warehouses, metal buildings, restaurants and strip centers. We take the structure down, haul the debris off and leave the site graded.
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Swimming pool demolition in San Antonio, partial fill in or full removal. We take out the shell, the deck and the equipment, then backfill the hole and grade the yard.
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Concrete removal for driveways, slabs, patios, sidewalks, parking lots and old foundations. We break it out with the excavator, haul it off and level the ground back.
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Land clearing services for lots, acreage and ranch land around San Antonio. We clear brush, mesquite, cedar, trees and stumps with excavators, skid steers and a forestry mulcher.
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Forestry mulching grinds cedar, mesquite and brush into mulch right where it stands. The chips stay on the ground as cover, so nothing leaves the property.
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Site preparation for builders, developers and commercial property owners around San Antonio. We clear and grub, cut and fill to the plan, build pads and set the final grade.
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Dirt work across San Antonio and about 50 miles around the city. We level and grade land, bring in fill dirt, build pads and fix low spots that hold water.
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Underground utility installation around San Antonio: water mains, water lines, sanitary sewer lines, storm drains and culverts. We trench, bed the pipe, backfill in lifts and leave the ground at grade.
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Pond construction across San Antonio and the ranch country around it. We dig stock tanks, ranch ponds and detention ponds, build the dam and cut the spillway.
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Dump truck services across San Antonio and about 50 miles around the city. We haul spoils and debris off jobs and deliver fill dirt, caliche, base and gravel by the load.
Learn MoreA few of the questions we hear most around Floresville. If yours is not here, call and ask.
Tell us where the property is and what needs to happen: a lot cleared, a slab out, a pad built. Call (253) 606-9497 or send the form, and we will line up a time to come look.
Tell us about the job. We will get right back to you.