Excavation in Valley View, TN
Valley View sits along the Spring Place Road corridor on the southeast side of Bradley County. If your property here needs grading, a retaining wall, drainage, or a pad cut, Pullen’s Land Works is about as local as a contractor gets. Call (423) 716-4143 and we’ll walk your ground this week and put a written number in your hand that doesn’t move once work starts.
The name is accurate. Homes here sit on the slopes and floors of a real valley, and everything about building or fixing anything on this ground comes back to one question: where does the water go when it comes off the hills? Answer that correctly and Valley View is a great place to own property. Ignore it and the valley answers for you, usually through your crawl space.
Grading and pads on valley ground
A pad cut into a hillside without a diversion above it collects everything the hill sheds in a storm. A pad set too low on the valley floor spends the wet season as an island. We shape the ground so storm water moves around your site, and we set pads at an elevation that keeps January outside. If you’re planning a build off Spring Place Road, have us walk the lot before the plans are final. See our excavation and grading services.
Retaining walls on the slopes
The grade change that gives Valley View its views also gives it real retaining wall needs. We build block, natural stone, timber, and tiered walls, always with drainage behind the face. On the steeper lots we often steer homeowners toward two shorter tiers instead of one tall wall, which drain better, skip the engineering thresholds a tall wall can trigger, and usually cost less. See our retaining wall services.
Driveways with grade
A climbing gravel drive without a crown and water bars becomes a chute that delivers your gravel to the mailbox every storm. We build sloped drives so water leaves the driving surface early, and set culverts where the drive crosses the valley’s natural drainage paths. See our gravel driveways.
Drainage between the hills
Valley floors collect water. We install French drains, catch basins, and diversion for Valley View yards that stay soft into spring, and regrade lots where the builder left the ground pitching toward the house. See our drainage services.
Local ground, local knowledge
We drive this corridor constantly, and half the county passes through it on the school run. Valley View families cross paths at Valley View Elementary on Spring Place Road, and that daily drive is a tour of how this valley handles rain: watch the ditches on a stormy morning and you can see which properties got their grading right. The community’s anchor school is Valley View Elementary.
How hiring us works
A free walk-through first, where we tell you what we’d do if it were our property, including when the honest answer is a smaller job than you feared. Then a written quote, a build done by the crew that walked your land, and a final walkthrough before we call it finished.
How hiring us works
Free walk-through, where we look at the slope, the water paths, and what you want to build. A written quote for the full scope, the number holds, and the crew that walked your property does the work.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need one tall wall or two tiers?
Depends on the height, the soil above it, and what sits uphill. Roughly: past four feet of holdback, tiers start winning on cost and drainage; past six feet a single wall may need an engineer’s stamp. We price both on the walk-through.
My driveway washes out every spring. Can it be fixed once?
Almost always. Washout is a water-routing problem wearing a gravel costume, and crown, base, water bars, and a culvert in the right place turn an annual repair into a maintenance-free drive.
When is the best season for grading work here?
Late summer and fall, when the ground is dry enough to shape cleanly and settles before winter rain tests it. Diagnose wet, build dry.
Your slope is an asset when the water is managed: (423) 716-4143.