Land Clearing
We clear brush and small trees from lots and small acreage around Katy, Texas. Where it fits, the brush is mulched in place.
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Sugar Land is a city of master-planned neighborhoods, and most of its homes went up in the 1980s and 1990s. Census figures put the median home at a 1994 build. Much of the city sits on heavy clay, so water stands in yards after a hard rain. Wood privacy fences lean, and storms knock sections down.
Sugar Land is part of our service area, about 20 road miles southeast of Katy by the Grand Parkway. Florida's Contracting and Land Services, a Texas land clearing company, puts in French drains here and repairs privacy fences. We also tear down old houses and handle land clearing on the acreage at the edges of town. Call or text (979) 824-2296, and we look at the job and put the quote in writing.
Tell us about the land, the fence or the drainage problem and where it is. We look at the job and put the quote in writing.
Federal soil maps put Brazoria clay under more than a third of Sugar Land. It is clay the Brazos River laid down, and water moves through it very slowly. Two more clays, Lake Charles and Pledger, cover close to a fifth of the city. The ground is nearly flat, and Sugar Land averages about 50 inches of rain a year.
Nine levee improvement districts cover most of the city. They keep up the levees along the rivers and drain the land behind them. The city's 2024 bond adds public drainage work, such as inlet replacements in Sugar Lakes. A back yard that holds water is a different job, and the fix happens on your lot.
Water also sits in the narrow side yard between two houses, where mowers pack the ground hard. We cut a French drain through the wet area and backfill it with crushed granite for drainage. The city's permit guide lists area drains as plumbing permit work, so ask its permits office about a yard drain. State water law bars sending that water onto the lot next door in a way that damages it.
Close to 9 in 10 Sugar Land homes are detached single-family houses, Census estimates show. In ZIP 77478 the median home dates to 1988. In 77479 it is 1998, and in 77498 it is 1997. Clay that swells and shrinks with the weather can push fence posts out of line.
The city's fence rule turns on the size of the change. Replacing a fence like for like, at the same dimensions, needs no permit. A new fence, or one that changes size, needs a city fence permit. The city asks the property owner to apply online, and your HOA may have deed restrictions too.
Our privacy fence repair covers damaged sections, leaning runs, rotten bottom boards and storm damage. That includes the shared fence between two back yards. When a fence is past patching, we build a new wood privacy fence with a rot board. The written quote says what gets repaired and what gets replaced.
City Council calls redevelopment its top priority. Census estimates show only about 1 in 10 homes here was built in 2010 or later. The city's extraterritorial jurisdiction adds about 13 square miles past its limits. South of the Brazos River, the city is building water and wastewater plants for the homes and businesses planned there.
For a tree in your yard, the city has no removal ordinance, though some HOA deed restrictions cover trees. Clearing or grading an acre or more in the city needs a land disturbance permit and a stormwater plan. A Sugar Land address does not always mean city limits, the city warns. Outside the limits, Fort Bend County Engineering issues development permits.
Our land clearing is sized for lots and tracts of 10 acres or less. The soil survey lists pecan, elm, hackberry, oak and ash as native trees on Brazoria clay. A forestry mulching head on the skid steer grinds brush and small trees where they stand. Where material has to leave, we load the trucks and the trucking is arranged.
Sugar Land was a sugar company town before it was a suburb. The Hill grew up in the early 1900s as housing for Imperial Sugar workers. The city's guide for The Hill says aging homes there have been replaced with larger new ones. Sugar Creek followed in 1968 as the area's first master-planned community, and First Colony began in 1977.
The city lists residential demolition outside The Hill as an express permit, issued online with no plan review. In The Hill, a demolition also has to follow the district's tree rules. Where the lot has one, a protected hardwood in the front half has to stay. Protected means 8 inches or more across, measured 4.5 feet up.
Our house demolition covers houses and barns up to about 5,300 square feet, plus sheds and old concrete. We load out the debris, and the trucking is arranged. If you want the ground cut and leveled after, we do that too.
Communities and areas we serve around Sugar Land: First Colony, Sugar Creek, Sugar Lakes, Venetian Estates, Covington Woods, The Hill, Telfair, New Territory, Greatwood, River Park, Sweetwater, Commonwealth.
Sugar Land ZIP codes served: 77478, 77479, 77498.
Sugar Land is part of our service area. We look at the job and put the quote in writing.
(979) 824-2296 We clear brush and small trees from lots and small acreage around Katy, Texas. Where it fits, the brush is mulched in place.
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The mulching head on our skid steer turns brush and small trees into chips where they stand. We use it to open trails and clean up overgrown land around Katy, Texas.
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We clear brush and trees off farm and ranch fence lines. A skid steer with a mulching head leaves an open lane for fence repair or a new fence.
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We build and rebuild ranch fencing on farms and ranches around Katy, Texas. Pipe posts and H-braces carry barbed wire or field wire, stretched tight.
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We replace damaged and leaning sections of wood privacy fence in Katy-area neighborhoods. We also build new privacy fence with a rot board along the bottom.
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French drains for yards that hold water, including side yards and gates between close-set houses. We also run downspout drain lines and backfill washouts with crushed granite.
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We take down houses and barns up to about 5,300 square feet, plus sheds and old concrete. The debris gets loaded out, and the ground can be cut level after.
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Driveway culverts and entrances for new lots and farm gates, set to the county's or TxDOT's size and grade. We also grade the washboard out of gravel drives.
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We dig new stock ponds and expand old ones on acreage around Katy. The clay and sand that come out can build a pad nearby.
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We build house pads and gravel driveways with a finishing dozer and an excavator. We also level lots after a demolition and shape ground so rain drains off.
Learn MoreA few of the questions we hear most around Sugar Land. If yours is not here, call or text and ask.
Tell us about the land and the town it is in, and send photos by text if you have them. Call or text (979) 824-2296 or use the form, and we will get back to you.
Tell us about the land, the fence or the drainage problem and where it is. We look at the job and put the quote in writing.