Most grading problems show up as water in the wrong place: a puddle by the garage, ice on the walkway, or a soggy patch beside the foundation every spring. Randlett sits at about 4,816 feet, and winters here bring freeze and thaw cycles that are hard on flat or backward sloping ground. Good grading fixes the shape of the land before those problems settle in.
Our grading work in Randlett covers rough grading after excavation, finish grading around new homes and shops, building pads, yard leveling, and reshaping lanes and parking areas. We set grades with a laser, move material with the right machine for the job, and compact fill so it holds its shape. The result is ground that drains, mows, and drives the way you expect it to.
We grade across the Uintah Basin and understand how snowmelt, clay, and wide open slopes move water on rural parcels.
Dozers, skid steers, compaction rollers, and laser levels let us set grades accurately and compact fill so it holds.
If grading alone won't solve your water problem, we will say so and talk through a drain or swale instead.
We keep machines on the work area, protect lawns and fences we don't need to touch, and rake the finish clean.
Randlett doesn’t have its own climate station, so nobody can hand you a neat chart of local weather. What owners out here do know is what winter leaves behind: snow that melts in the afternoon, refreezes at night, and finds every low spot on the property. When the ground around a house or shop is flat or tips the wrong way, that water sits against the walls, soaks in, and freezes again. Over a few seasons it can crack flatwork, heave steps, and turn a yard into a mud pit each spring.
Grading is how you get ahead of that. A steady fall away from every building, plus a clear path for the water once it leaves, takes care of most of it.
Every grading job comes down to moving dirt from where there is too much to where there isn’t enough. On the high side, we cut material away. On the low side, we place it back in thin layers and compact each one, because loose fill settles and leaves dips that hold water. We shoot elevations with a laser before and during the work so the finished surface lands where it should, not where it looks right from the seat of a machine.
When the cut and fill don’t balance, we either bring in material or haul extra away. We let you know which way your site leans during the walkthrough. Keeping as much of your own dirt on site as possible is usually the simplest plan, and the topsoil we strip early gets saved for the finish layer.
A lot of grading out here is for working buildings. A shop, hay barn, or equipment shed needs a pad that is flat across the top, set a little higher than the ground around it, and compacted firm enough to carry heavy loads. If the pad is part of a new build, it often follows the excavation for footings and foundations, and the two pieces of work are planned together.
We also look at what happens around the pad. Water from the roof and the surrounding slope needs somewhere to go, so the edges get shaped to move it off and away from the doors.
Some grading needs are obvious, like a new build with bare dirt all around it. Others creep up over time. These are the clues we hear about most from owners:
Many Randlett parcels share space with irrigation ditches, pasture, and fence lines. Grading near those features takes a little extra thought. Pushing your runoff into a neighbor’s field or a ditch that carries someone else’s water can cause friction, so we look at the whole slope of the property and plan where water will end up before we change anything. Where a simple slope isn’t enough, swales, French drains, or culverts can carry water to a better spot.
Once the rough grade is set, the next step depends on the project. Yards get topsoil spread, raked, and ready for seed, sod, or rock. Lanes and parking areas move on to base and surfacing, and a well built driveway base for your lane starts with the shape we just put in the ground. Building pads go to your concrete or steel crew.
We schedule grading trips to Randlett ahead of time and try to finish each phase in one visit. Call (801) 669-0512 and we will come walk the property with you.
We walk your Randlett property, watch how water moves, and shoot elevations around buildings, lanes, and low spots.
You get a free written quote that lists cut and fill areas, imported or hauled material, and finish work.
We cut, fill in compacted lifts, and check grades with a laser so the slope carries water where it should.
When grading wraps up, we walk the site together and look at how water will leave each building and lane.
