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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La Vernia sits on the south bank of Cibolo Creek, where US 87 meets FM 775 in northern Wilson County. Mesquite, post oak and thorny brush crowd the fence lines of the pastures around town. Wilson County loam runs deep over clay, and by 1915 the town had a brick works and a pottery plant. A new homesite off FM 775 or FM 1346 starts with brush to clear, then a pad and a driveway.
Global Contractors LLC is an excavation contractor based at our yard in Pleasanton, south of San Antonio. Around La Vernia that means building pads, foundation digs, trenching and grading, plus land clearing and forestry mulching on acreage. Our excavators, dump trucks, skid steers and forestry mulcher also handle demolition, stock tanks, dirt work and utilities. Since 2006 the company has done government and commercial sitework; call (253) 606-9497 for a free estimate.
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Wilson County soils grow grasses, mesquite, blackjack, post oak, live oak, thorny shrubs and cacti. Left alone, a pasture closes in with that brush, often starting at the fence lines. Mesquite is the hardest to keep down. An AgriLife rangeland page notes that leaving any part of the bud zone behind can let a mesquite resprout.
So where a pad or a driveway goes in, the excavator pulls the stumps and root crowns out. The wood and roots then leave the property by dump truck hauling. Where the goal is open pasture, the forestry mulcher grinds brush and small trees where they stand. Nothing is hauled, and the ground is left covered in mulch.
Burning is a separate matter. Agricultural burn permits in Wilson County are requested online and issued by the county Fire Marshal's office. Our clearing ends one of two ways: mulched in place or hauled away.
The Handbook of Texas calls Wilson County nearly flat to gently undulating, with deep loamy soils over clayey subsoils. Cotton became the county's main cash crop in the 1890s. The fertile soil in the north part of the county grew as much as a bale per acre. La Vernia is in that northern part of Wilson County.
Loam on top digs easily and drains. The clay below can hold water and move as it wets and dries. So a building pad here gets select fill placed and compacted in lifts, with the grade shaped to shed water. That is standard site preparation and dirt work on this ground.
Clay is also what lets a stock tank hold water. In 2002, 44 percent of the county's farm and ranch land was pasture. Before we dig a tank, we check how much clay sits under the loam. We dig new tanks, clean out silted ones and shape the dams and spillways as part of pond construction.
Inside the city limits, permit applications are online or at La Vernia City Hall. Bureau Veritas does the city's plan review and field inspections under the 2018 International Building Code. A contractor not yet registered with the city files a Contractor Registration Form with the permit. Impact fees depend on the year the property was platted.
The city's permits page carries asbestos survey and notification information for demolition work. Read it before a house demolition takes down an old farmhouse or barn. Building in a flood zone takes the city's floodplain development permit packet and a FEMA flood map check. Work in a city right-of-way, such as trenching for underground utilities, takes its own permit application.
Outside the limits, call Wilson County's Permitting and Development office in Floresville. It handles driveway and septic inspections, and a TCEQ-licensed installer sets and permits the septic system itself. The county publishes subdivision and development regulations, a floodplain court order and PIPROW rules for the public right-of-way. TCEQ's Edwards Aquifer Protection Program lists Bexar and Comal among its counties, but Wilson County is not on the list.
FM 775 runs north from La Vernia across the Guadalupe County line to New Berlin. From there it continues to I-10 southwest of Seguin, and to the south it reaches US 181. FM 1346 comes in from Loop 1604 at St. Hedwig, passes through Carpenter and ends at FM 775 in town. Loop 321 carries the old route of US 87 through La Vernia.
Sutherland Springs is also on US 87 in northern Wilson County, on the west bank of Cibolo Creek. La Vernia itself is small: 1,077 people at the 2020 census, on about 2.4 square miles. Wilson County grew 11.4 percent from 2020 to 2024. A new shopping area went up on US 87 just west of town in 2010.
By the early 2000s, some county residents commuted to San Antonio for work. La Vernia is about 25 miles east of downtown San Antonio and 24 miles from the airport. From our yard in Pleasanton, SH 97 runs east to Floresville, and La Vernia sits fifteen miles north of there.
Communities and areas we serve around La Vernia: Cibolo Creek, US 87, FM 775, FM 1346, Loop 321, Carpenter, St. Hedwig, Sutherland Springs, New Berlin.
La Vernia ZIP codes served: 78121.
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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Underbrushing clears cedar and brush out from under the trees you want to keep. The canopy stays, and everything cut is ground into mulch on the spot.
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Right-of-way clearing opens utility, pipeline, road and drainage easements through brush, cedar and trees. The mulcher grinds the corridor in place, and the excavators pull stumps where a line or a road goes in.
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Mesquite grubbing pulls each tree out with its root crown, so it is much less likely to sprout back. We grub pasture and fence lines around San Antonio with excavators, skid steers and dump trucks.
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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 La Vernia. 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.