The first contractor on every good build
Between buying land and pouring a footer sits a pile of dirt work that has to happen in the right order: access first, clearing, rough grade, utilities in the ground, pad up, drainage handled. When those are separate contractors, the schedule dies in the handoffs. We do the whole scope, so raw ground becomes a build-ready site on one plan.
Hooper's Excavation and Demolition preps home sites, barn sites, and small commercial sites across Central Indiana — for owners building custom and for builders who want the dirt phase handled.
The full site prep scope
- Construction access & driveway — stone in early so trucks don't destroy the site all build long.
- Clearing and grubbing — trees, stumps, brush, and old structures off the footprint.
- Rough grading & drainage — shaping the site so it works dry all construction season.
- Building pad — cut, fill, compaction, laser grade.
- Utility trenching — water, electric, and comms from the road or well to the site.
- Septic system — designed, permitted, and installed alongside the rest.
- Erosion control — silt fence and entrances where the county requires them.
Building in the county? Sequence is everything
Rural builds fail on sequence: septic areas get compacted by delivery trucks, wells get drilled where the barn should go, driveways go in last across finished yards. We plan the site as a whole — septic field protected from day one, utilities routed once, access placed where it serves the finished property — because we're thinking about the last day of the project on the first.