Sitework Across the Upstate, From Seneca to Spartanburg
Painter Land Development clears land, grades sites, digs pads and trenches, and installs water, sewer, storm and power lines for builders, contractors and property owners. We work across the Upstate, from Oconee County in the west to Spartanburg County in the east, and every job starts with a walk of the property and a written estimate.
Where We Work
Oconee County
Clearing a lakefront lot near Seneca means working downhill toward Lake Keowee or Lake Hartwell. Soil erosion is a concern across most of Oconee County.
On a slope that ends in the water, dirt that washes off bare ground has a short trip to the lake. Silt fence goes in before the first tree comes down and stays until the ground is covered again.
Land Clearing →Pickens County
We clear and grade building lots in Clemson and Easley, and we’ll dig north of the city of Pickens too, where the ground turns to mountain slope. The soil on those slopes can be shallow, with weathered granite and gneiss starting 10 to 20 inches down.
Cut a driveway or a pad into a slope like that and the bucket is in weathered rock almost at once. It can be firm in place, but it turns loose once it’s disturbed, so the cut, the spoil and the fill get worked out before the machine starts.
Excavation Services →Anderson County
Nearly half of Anderson County is farmland. When a site near Anderson is old hayfield or pasture instead of woods, the work shifts from clearing to grading.
Open ground still has to be shaped. The pad comes up to elevation, the driveway gets set to grade, and runoff from the new roof gets somewhere to go.
Grading Services →Greenville County
From Travelers Rest to Greer, with Greenville and Taylors in between, we take on clearing, grading, excavation and utility work. Farther south, the same crew builds pads and runs water and sewer lines in Simpsonville and Fountain Inn.
A trench near Mauldin can take on water with no creek in sight. Some of the high ground there sits on soil with a dense, partly brittle layer, and from winter into early spring water can perch 2 to 4 feet down. That puts the water right where a sewer or water line goes, so the season and the drainage get planned along with the trench.
Utility Installations →Spartanburg County
Ground in the city of Spartanburg mostly comes in two kinds, and they don’t dig or drain the same way. On the broad ridges the soil runs deep and well drained over a firm subsoil. In the creek bottoms it is wetter alluvial soil, which is poor ground to build on.
One Spartanburg lot can hold both, which is why we walk the property before we write the estimate. A pad on the ridge and a storm line running down toward the creek are two different jobs.
Request an Estimate →If your site is somewhere else in the Upstate, call or text (864) 888-7536 and tell us where it is.