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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Schertz grew up along I-35 and around Randolph Air Force Base. The older parts of town still show it. Aviation Heights, off Schertz Parkway near FM 3009, has homes that date to 1948. Lots like those come with an old slab under the house and utility lines nobody has touched in decades. On the south side the job is the opposite. Pasture off FM 1518 and Lower Seguin Road is turning into rooftops. Each of those lots needed a pad built before the slab went down.
Global Contractors LLC is an excavation and demolition contractor based at our yard in Pleasanton, south of San Antonio. We have run excavation, demolition and utility jobs for cities, counties, schools and general contractors since 2006. In Schertz that starts with the excavation work: site excavation, cut and fill, building pads, trenching and drainage. We also take houses down, clear lots, run water and sewer lines and haul the spoils off. Call (253) 606-9497 for a free estimate.
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Schertz sits on the Blackland Prairie, the band of dark clay that follows the Balcones Fault line up I-35. Soil guides for Bexar County describe it the same way every time. The clay swells when it takes on water and shrinks when it dries out. Those guides call that habit the main reason slabs move around here.
Wet black clay is heavy and it sticks to everything. It hauls heavy and it will not compact to a pad until the moisture is close to where it belongs. Dry clay comes out in hard chunks instead. We read the weather before we open a cut on this ground, and we plan the haul around it.
Cibolo Creek runs through town and marks the line between Guadalupe County and Bexar County. The bottom ground near the creek behaves nothing like the high side of FM 3009. Local news has covered creek flooding that pushed evacuations in Schertz. A low lot deserves a look at the flood maps before dirt moves.
Yes. The City of Schertz requires a building permit to demolish or move a building or structure. The same permit rule covers building, enlarging, altering and repairing one. The Inspections Division handles permits and inspections at 1400 Schertz Parkway, and contractors register with the city first.
Before a structure comes down, the utilities cut and cap the gas, the electric and the water. Most teardowns also start with an asbestos survey, and a licensed asbestos inspector does that part. If the building has asbestos in it, a licensed abatement contractor pulls it out before we start. We point you at the right office, then handle the house demolition itself.
Schertz also limits when contractors can run machines on a job. The city ordinance sets a weekday window and a shorter one on Saturday. Outdoor construction work on Sunday needs written approval from the city manager. On a teardown inside an older neighborhood, that shapes how the day gets planned.
Schertz sits in three counties. Most of the city is Guadalupe County, with parts reaching into Bexar County and Comal County. For a lot on septic, Guadalupe County Environmental Health issues the on-site sewage facility permit. The county issues an authorization to construct before any work starts on the system.
That same office runs floodplain development permits through its floodplain manager. The county can hold a septic authorization when a floodplain permit is needed and has not been issued. Parts of Schertz inside Bexar County or Comal County go to that county's office instead.
Our part is the digging. Septic systems themselves are set and permitted by a TCEQ-licensed installer. A TCEQ-licensed installer sets and permits the system itself. The same trenchers and excavators run water lines, sewer lines and storm drains. That keeps underground utilities on a Schertz lot with one contractor. Texas 811 gets called before we put a tooth in the ground.
Schertz had 18,694 people at the 2000 census. By 2020 the count was 42,002. Growth like that shows up two ways on the ground. It shows up as subdivisions off FM 1518 and as warehouses along I-35.
The Schertz Economic Development Corporation counts about 8 million square feet of industrial space planned or built in the city. Schertz Station, a 257,000 square foot retail and dining project, opened along the interstate. A site like that begins with clearing and grubbing. Then comes cut and fill to the engineer's plan and pads compacted in lifts.
On the residential side, The Crossvine, Rhine Valley and Saddlebrook Ranch are still adding homes. Older streets in Northcliffe and Greenfield Village bring the other kind of call. A lot gets regraded, a low spot gets fixed, fill comes in. That is dirt work and grading, and we do it on single lots and on acreage. We come up I-37 from the Pleasanton yard, then Loop 1604 east to I-35.
Communities and areas we serve around Schertz: Aviation Heights, Northcliffe, The Crossvine, Rhine Valley, Willow Grove, Woodland Oaks, Greenfield Village, Saddlebrook Ranch, Ashley Place, FM 3009 (Roy Richard Drive), Lower Seguin Road, Cibolo Creek.
Schertz ZIP codes served: 78154, 78108.
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(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 Schertz. 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.