Roads & Driveways

Private roads and driveways cut, shaped, crowned and rocked to shed water and last through East Texas rain.

A driveway or road is the first thing you use every day and the first thing to fail when it is built wrong. In East Texas, where the rain comes hard and the ground turns soft, a road that was not built right ruts, washboards and washes out. Built right, it sheds water and stands up to loaded trucks and years of use.

Gardner Excavating builds private roads and driveways across Houston County and East Texas, from a short drive to a long ranch road. We shape the subgrade, crown it to drain, install culverts where water crosses, and lay a proper rock base that holds.

After 35+ years of building roads on this ground, we know how to make one last.

Built From The Base Up

A road is a layered thing, not just gravel on dirt. We shape a stable subgrade that sheds water, crown it down the center so rain runs to the ditches, and lay and compact a rock base sized for the loads you will actually put on it.

Skip the base and the crown and a road turns to soup the first wet season. We build it right so it holds.

Drainage & Culverts

Water is what tears a road up. We shape ditches to carry it away and set culverts wherever the road crosses a draw or a low spot, sized for the flow so a gully-washer runs under the road instead of over it.

At the county-road approach we build a clean, solid transition so you are not dragging mud onto the pavement or bottoming out coming in.

Drives To Ranch Roads

From a home driveway to a long road back to a hunting cabin or across a ranch, we build them all. Longer roads live and die on drainage and base, and we build both to stand up to East Texas weather.

Because we haul our own rock and run our own iron, we build roads efficiently and price them fair.

Questions About Roads & Driveways