Homesite & Building Pad Clearing in Grayson County, TX
Typical cost: Most pad-and-drive packages $3,500 – $12,000 by scope; quoted per project
Grayson County is in a homesite boom — TI money, metro escapees and family land finally getting built on — and every one of those builds starts with the same handoff: raw land turned into a pad a builder can work. Pad clearing is different work from mulching, and honest contractors say so: where the slab, septic field and drive are going, trees come out roots and all, because a mulched stump under a foundation is a future problem with your address on it.
A homesite package typically runs in zones: the pad footprint and utility corridors grubbed clean and rough-graded, the driveway cut and based from the county road, and the rest of the acreage — the part you will look at from the porch for thirty years — mulched selectively so it is clean but still country. One mobilization, one contractor, and your builder starts on ground that will not surprise the concrete crew.
Timing tip from the trade: clear before you finalize the house placement if you can. Walking a cleared tract almost always moves the house — a view opens up, a grade problem shows itself, a tree worth keeping declares it. Clearing first costs the same and buys you the information.

Pad grubbed, drive cut and based - land your builder can start on.
What is included
- Pad, septic and drive zones grubbed — roots out where structures go
- Rough grading and driveway cut-in from the county road
- Remaining acreage mulched selectively around the homesite
- Coordinated with your builder's site plan and schedule
- One mobilization from first tree to build-ready handoff
Serving Sherman, Denison, Van Alstyne, Howe, Gunter and nearby
This service is available across our full coverage area. See the service area map for the complete list, or call (903) 415-6499 to check a specific address.