rough landscaping

Rough Landscaping Services

The Importance of Getting Your Acreage Ready with Quality Rough Landscaping from ADS

No matter what you want to do with your acreage or rural property, you will need some degree of rough landscaping. This is especially true if your acreages encompasses a particularly difficult area. Here’s what you need to know about our quality rough landscaping service, and what it can do for you.

What is Rough Landscaping?

Rough landscaping implies working with bulk materials. Are you dealing with – or want to deal with – rocks, soil, stone, or other major elements? If so, then you will need rough landscaping to make that project a reality.

Examples of rough landscaping can include:

Plus various other landscaping services for acreages such as tree removal or even planting. Not to mention the need to haul extra material in to the site.

By contrast, soft landscaping includes things like working with plants, creating gardens, and adding features to support the growing of things. Keep in mind rough landscaping is often a requirement to prepare the property for a soft landscaping project.

By contrast, soft landscaping includes things like working with plants, creating gardens, and adding features to support the growth of things. Keep in mind rough landscaping is often a requirement to prepare the property for a soft landscaping project.

What Does Your Acreage Need Before Development?

It’s good to start with a full plan for your property. Knowing what you want goes a long way. However, achieving the goals of your plan isn’t always easy. Even on a plain field, there’s the possibility of a number of hidden dangers and problems that can show up.

 

Understanding what your project will require before you start developing or hiring various contractors is important. Do you need trees removed? Are you attempting a full perma-culture project? You can find yourself with some very expensive problems if you skip, mismanage, or downplay the rough excavation part of the process.

About ADS Ltd., And What We Do When it Comes to Rough Landscaping

At ADS Ltd., we have the experience, equipment, and people to turn your land into exactly what you need it to be. We offer quality above all else, and stand by it. We can help contractors, businesses, homeowners, and anyone else with a rural property they want to sculpt.

 

Check out some of our completed projects for examples of our rough grading work and other services.

 

Why Is Quality Extremely Important?

There’s a lot of contractors out there who can easily rent some equipment and start digging. Even some professional excavation services can do you more harm than good if they don’t have experience with your specific type of project.

For example, consider if you’re planning a pond. Not all contractors understand the importance of the groundwater table. Some may not fully grasp the importance of soil type when it comes to ponds. Some may start where you want them to start, even if it’s not a very good location.

 

You can find yourself with something serviceable, even if lacks quality. But you can also end up with a series of short and long-term problems. At worst, you can end up with a local ecological disaster that ends up costing the life of your plants when you reach the soft landscaping stage. We would like to see less of this type of thing happening. That’s why you should start with ADS Ltd.

Got questions? Here are some of the most common ones.

We have “Solution” in our name for a reason – we help with your ruggedest dirt work. If you can’t find the answer you’re looking for here, we can still help you.

 

 

What's "rough" and what's not?

Some examples of "rough" landscaping are: grading clay for drainage, spreading top soil or loam, placing rocks with an excavator, excavating ponds or dug outs.

Some examples of “soft” landscaping are:  Planting trees or shrubs, placing sod, installing irrigation systems, working with plants or features around your home.

Do you supply the rock for retaining walls?

You bet! We work closely with several suppliers that have several types of rock and products for retaining walls of many types.

Does rough landscaping include grass seeding when you're done?

Yes, ADS has plenty of experience and a professional tool set to complete many types of seeding projects and the knowledge to recommend the right seed for your desired outcome.

What do you mean by permaculture?

Permaculture is defined as “the development of agricultural ecosystems intended to be sustainable and self-sufficient” and the procedure of these types of jobs is foreign to most excavation companies. Not ADS, were well versed in permaculture and aquaculture plus have several successful projects under our belt.

It says you've done permaculture jobs?

We’ve worked with certified planners to complete all kinds of permaculture projects, some as simple as key lines in a side hill for tree planting, some as complex as multi-level ponds that collect water and run from one to the other.

What if I want a flat spot for a building we plan to put up, can you do that?

No problem, ADS has several specialized machines and the know how to get dirt moved for endless projects.

 

Tell Us About Your Project

Our service and reputation around southern Alberta are well known. In fact, contractors and others will often call on us to fix mistakes. So why not just contact us first at 403-815-0004 or complete the form below telling us about your project?