Regrade and Rock Install in Temple Terrace

This Temple Terrace homeowner had bare, uneven ground running alongside their screened enclosure and across a large open area in the backyard. No real surface, no drainage direction, just raw dirt that wasn't doing much of anything. That's exactly the kind of problem we solve.

We started with a full regrade using a Ditch Witch skid loader to reshape the ground and get everything sitting at the right pitch. Getting the grade right before anything else goes down is what separates a rock install that holds up from one that shifts and washes out after the first heavy rain. Florida doesn't give you a lot of margin for error on that.

Once the grade was set, we laid weed barrier fabric across the entire area - both the side run along the enclosure and the open backyard section near the pavers. That fabric is doing a lot of work under the surface. It keeps weed pressure down and stops the rock from slowly sinking into the soil over time.

Then came 25 cubic yards of white marble rock spread across both areas. That's a serious amount of material to move and place cleanly. The result is a finished surface that ties right into the existing paver patio and gives the whole backyard a clean, low-maintenance look that holds up year-round.

Jobs like this are part grading work, part landscaping - and doing both well in the same scope is where a lot of crews fall short. Getting the ground prep right is what makes the finished surface actually perform.