Excavating and dirt work in Festus, MO
Festus is in Jefferson County, one of the two counties BR2 Property Solutions covers, and it is one of the closest towns to our Hillsboro base — roughly ten miles by road.
Where it is
Festus, Jefferson County
Festus sits in the south-eastern corner of Jefferson County, sharing a border and most of its everyday geography with Crystal City, a few miles back from the Mississippi off Highway 61 and I-55. It is about ten miles from Hillsboro, which makes it one of the shortest trips on this list.
- Jefferson County, Missouri — inside our coverage
- ZIP 63028
- Owner-run, 7 AM to 7 PM, seven days a week
- Free estimate, walked on your own ground
The ground around here
What the dirt does in this part of the county
The Festus and Crystal City area has an industrial history built on what is under it: this stretch of the county was worked for silica sand and limestone for the best part of a century. That leaves a landscape of old workings, made ground and abrupt changes in what you find below the topsoil — which matters, because the first eighteen inches of a site is where most excavation surprises live.
Above that, the ground is typical of this part of the Ozark border: rolling, clay-heavy, and cut by creeks running east towards the river. Clay soils drain slowly, so the recurring problem is not that water arrives but that it takes days to leave. Older neighbourhoods here were also laid out before modern stormwater practice, which shows up as a lot of properties where the water genuinely has nowhere designed to go.
What gets asked for
The jobs this area tends to need
Around Festus the common calls are yard and driveway regrading, drainage runs through clay-heavy ground, pads for shops, garages and additions, brush and small timber off larger lots towards the county edge, and older sheds and slabs taken out and hauled away.
That describes the ground and the housing stock here, not a list of jobs completed in this town. The work we can show you is on the gallery, and what customers say about it is on the why us page.
All five services
What we can do in Festus
The same five services, the same owner, the same machines. Most jobs turn out to be two of them — the thing you called about, plus the drainage problem underneath it.
Dirt Work & Grading
Cut and fill, yard regrading, driveway repair, drainage runs, swales, arena and pad footing, and trench digging.
See dirt work and gradingDrainage & Ditch Work
Surface regrading, swales and rock-lined runs, ditch cleaning and reshaping, French drains, downspout runs, culverts and trench digging.
See drainage and ditch workHardscaping
Rock and gravel placement, drainage runs, rip-rap, retaining and boulder walls, regraded banks, gravel drives and erosion control.
See hardscapingSite Prep
Topsoil strip and stockpile, cut to grade, subgrade compaction, base rock, building and shed pads, driveway and parking bases.
See site prepDemolition
Sheds, outbuildings and garages, decks, fences and porches, concrete slabs and old driveways, pool removal and backfill, interior tear-outs, haul-away and final grade.
See demolitionLand Clearing
Brush and scrub clearing, small timber and tree removal, fence line and property line clearing, overgrown lot reclamation, stump and root removal, debris hauled off site.
See land clearingQuestions
Festus: common questions
Do you cover Festus and Crystal City?
What if you hit rock or old fill on my property?
Can you prep a pad for a shop or garage?
Other towns with a page: Hillsboro · Arnold · Imperial · Fenton · De Soto · Pevely · High Ridge · Oakville · Mehlville · Sunset Hills · Kirkwood · Valley Park · Affton. The rest of Jefferson County and of Jefferson and St. Louis County generally is on the service area page.
Need dirt moved in Festus?
Tell us the address and what the ground is doing. Bryer comes out, walks it with you and gives you a number — free, and with nothing attached to it. Repeat customers get 10% off.