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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Seguin is growing about as fast as any town in the San Antonio area. The city counted 27 residential subdivisions under construction and more than 17,000 homes in the pipeline. Pasture off State Highway 46 and FM 725 is turning into lots at Arroyo Ranch and Hiddenbrooke. Ground like that gets cleared, cut and filled long before the first slab is poured. Older parts of town have the opposite job: a tired house or a cracked slab that has to go.
Global Contractors LLC is an excavation and demolition contractor based at our yard in Pleasanton, south of San Antonio. The company has done commercial and government sitework since 2006. In Seguin we handle excavation and demolition, plus clearing, grading, utility trenching and stock tanks. Excavators, dump trucks, skid steers and the forestry mulcher come up from the yard. Call (253) 606-9497 for a free estimate.
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Soil surveys describe Guadalupe County ground as dark calcareous clay in the northwest. It shades to fine sandy loam toward the southeast. Seguin sits between the two, with river bottom along the Guadalupe. The USDA even named a soil series after the town. The Seguin series was mapped in Guadalupe County, in the flood plains of the Guadalupe and San Marcos Rivers.
That river soil is a silty clay loam built from limestone and shale washed downstream. It runs 40 to 60 percent calcium carbonate, so it behaves differently than heavy black clay. The prairie clay is the one that moves. It swells when it rains and shrinks in a dry August. That is why a pad here goes in as lifts.
So the dirt work changes with the tract. Select fill gets moisture conditioned and rolled in thin layers over clay. River bottom ground usually needs the drainage worked out before anything sits on it. We look at the dirt before we price the job.
Inside the city limits, the City of Seguin Planning and Codes department handles permits and inspections. The city building code calls for a permit to construct, enlarge, alter, repair, move or demolish a structure. Applications go through the city online development services portal. Ask that office what your address needs before a machine shows up.
Outside the city limits, Guadalupe County Environmental Health on IH 10 West in Seguin is the office to call. It issues on-site sewage facility permits and floodplain development permits. A septic system needs an authorization to construct before work starts. The county acts on that application within 30 days. If a tract sits in the 100 year floodplain, the septic permit waits on the development permit.
The county floodplain manager runs a five step process. A site inspection comes up front, then field inspections during the work. Once the permit is issued, construction has to start within 180 days. A TCEQ-licensed installer sets the septic system and permits it. Same idea on water and sewer lines. We call Texas 811 for locates before the bucket goes in the ground.
The 2020 census counted 29,433 people in Seguin. The city says census estimates put it near 38,800 by July 2024, a jump of about 32 percent. That growth shows up as new streets off Highway 46, Martindale Road and the Highway 123 Bypass. Arroyo Ranch, Hiddenbrooke, Navarro Oaks, Navarro Ranch, Nolte Farms and Cordova Crossing are all part of that wave.
A subdivision tract mostly starts the same way. Fence lines and brush get cleared and grubbed, then the dirt is cut and filled to the engineer plan. Building pads go in as select fill, placed and rolled in lifts. Then come the rough grade, the drainage, the erosion controls and the parking lot subgrade. That is ordinary site preparation, and it is most of what a builder needs before walls go up.
Seguin runs on manufacturing too. The city economic development office says Seguin has more manufacturing jobs per person than any city in Texas. Plants and distribution buildings line Interstate 10, US 90 and the rail. Those commercial sites need the same clearing, cut and fill, pads and storm drainage as a subdivision. From our yard in Pleasanton it is I-37 north to San Antonio, then I-10 east to Seguin.
Seguin has a long main street and neighborhoods older than most in the county. Some of those lots are worth more empty than they are with the house standing. A teardown runs in a set order. The city permit comes first. A licensed asbestos inspector surveys the building where the rules call for it. Then gas, electric and water get capped.
After that the excavator goes to work. Walls come down, the debris is sorted and loaded, and the dump trucks haul it off. The slab and the footings come out with it. What is left is a graded lot you can build on or sell.
Out on acreage the job looks different. Ground near the river and the creeks grows water tolerant hardwoods. The drier pasture carries mesquite, brush and grasses. Brush gets mulched in place or hauled off, and stumps come out with the excavator. Stock tanks that silted in get cleaned out on the same trip.
Communities and areas we serve around Seguin: Historic downtown Seguin, Arroyo Ranch, Hiddenbrooke, Navarro Oaks, Navarro Ranch, Nolte Farms, Cordova Crossing, McQueeney, Lake McQueeney, Lake Placid, Geronimo, Kingsbury.
Seguin ZIP codes served: 78155, 78156.
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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 Seguin. 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.