0 ft
below grade
Google ★★★★★ 5.0 · 68 reviews
// 18 yrs · 1,400+ sites · 0 utility strikes

Before anything rises, we move the earth.

Grading, trenching, demolition, and site prep for builders and homeowners across the South Bay. Laser-guided, insured, and on schedule.

// What are we digging?
📐¼ INgrade tolerance
🚜48 HRsite walk to fixed bid
Topsoil · 0–2 ft

The most expensive mistakes on a job site happen underground.

Bad compaction cracks foundations. Wrong grades flood crawlspaces. A mismarked utility line stops a project for weeks. We've spent 18 years making sure none of that happens on our dirt, which is why the best builders in the valley put us in before anyone else shows up.

Aerial view of a freshly graded site
01 / Grading

Mass & fine grading

Laser and GPS-guided grades held to a quarter inch. Water goes where we tell it to go.

Precision utility trench
02 / Trenching

Utilities & trenching

Clean vertical walls, proper bedding, USA-marked and potholed before a single bucket drops.

Finished level building pad at dawn
03 / Pads

Building pads

Certified compaction with soils reports your engineer will sign off on the first time.

Excavator working at golden hour
04 / Demo

Demolition & haul-off

Structures down, concrete out, site swept. Recycled where it can be, documented where it must be.

Clay · 2–9 ft
18 yrsin South Bay dirt
1,400+sites delivered
¼ ingrade tolerance
0utility strikes, ever
// Why builders call us first

Dirt work is precision work.

Anyone can rent an excavator. The difference is the operator who's cut a thousand grades and the systems that catch problems before they cost you.

GPS machine control — the grade plan lives in the cab, not on paper
Pre-dig utility potholing — we verify lines by eye, not by map
Compaction certs included — your engineer gets the report same week
Fixed bids, honored — rock clauses spelled out up front, no surprise change orders
Precision trench detail
Bedrock · we've hit it all
// Field reports
★★★★★

"They cut our hillside pad in three days and the compaction report was on my desk before the invoice. My soils engineer said it was the cleanest cert he'd seen all year."

Placeholder review · GC, Los Gatos
★★★★★

"Pool dig quoted with a rock clause spelled out line by line. They hit rock, called me from the hole, showed me photos, and the extra was exactly what the contract said."

Placeholder review · Homeowner, Saratoga
★★★★★

"Fourth project with Ironside. They show up when they say, the site drains like it's supposed to, and I never think about them again. That's the compliment."

Get a bid that holds.

// Site walk + fixed bid, usually within 48 hours

Bid inbound.

We'll call to walk the site, usually within 48 hours. Have your plans handy if you've got them.

Machines ready now? Call (408) 555-0152

📞 Call (408) 555-0152