Sterling's is a family owned, husband and wife team. Excavation, grading, demolition, drainage, and dirt hauling at honest prices, with free estimates on every job. Rated 5.0 on Google.
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Most of the projects we take on start the same way. Something on the property is not working. Water sits against the house after every rain. An old slab is cracked and heaving. A yard slopes the wrong direction, or a building pad needs to be cut before anything else can happen. That is the kind of work we do. Sterling's Affordable Excavating is a locally owned excavation company serving Hendricks County, Indiana, and we handle the dirt, the concrete, and the water so the rest of your project can move forward.
We believe in honest pricing, dependable service, and building lasting relationships with the people we work for. Every job starts with a free estimate, and every phone call gets a straight answer. Here is what we do.
Site work is the foundation of everything built on top of it. We dig, cut, and shape ground for pads, pools, additions, and yards that need to drain the right way. If the grade is wrong, we fix the grade.
Old driveways, patios, slabs, and small structures do not remove themselves. We break the concrete, tear out what needs to go, and haul it off the property. You get a clean footprint, ready for whatever comes next.
Spoil piles, leftover fill, and debris from other projects take up space and kill grass. We load it, haul it, and leave the area cleaned up. Debris removal is part of the job, not an afterthought.
Water is the quiet problem that becomes an expensive one. We bury downspout lines, install drainage, and regrade wet spots so water moves away from your foundation instead of into it.
When a slope will not stay put, a properly built retaining wall holds the ground and gives you usable space back. We handle the excavation, the base work, and the wall itself.
Post holes, pier holes, and footings drilled clean and to depth. Augering by machine saves you a weekend of hand digging and gives you straight, consistent holes every time.
A word on how these jobs tend to overlap. A driveway removal usually turns into grading, because the ground underneath needs to be finished right, not just left as a scar. A drainage job often starts as a mystery, a wet basement or a soft spot in the yard, and the digging is what finds the cause. That overlap is why hiring one company for the dirt, the concrete, and the water beats coordinating three. One point of contact, one machine mobilization, one person responsible for how the site looks when it is all over.
Not sure which category your project falls into? That is fine. Most people are not calling with the right vocabulary, they are calling with a problem. Describe what is going on and we will tell you honestly whether it is something we handle.
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Sterling's Affordable Excavating is run by Casey and Ashley Jones, a husband and wife team based right here in Hendricks County. When you call, you are not reaching a dispatcher or a sales office. You are reaching the people who own the company and stand behind the work.
That matters more than it might sound. In excavation, the gap between what gets promised and what gets done is usually a gap between the person who sold the job and the person who showed up to do it. There is no gap here. Casey is the one walking your property, the one giving you the estimate, and the one running the machine. Ashley keeps the operation organized and the communication flowing, so questions get answered and nobody is left wondering when the crew is coming.
Our own words, from day one: we are a reliable, locally owned excavation company dedicated to delivering high quality work at competitive prices. We believe in honest pricing, dependable service, and building lasting relationships with our clients. That last part is not filler. Most of our favorite jobs come from people we have worked for before, or from their neighbors, and that only happens when the first job went the way it was supposed to.
One of our customers, S Shuminsky, put it this way after their project: "Casey and his team worked quickly, taking pride in respecting our request and property. He delivered on everything he said he would do." That is the standard. Say what you are going to do, then do it.
Being a husband and wife operation also changes how the work feels for the customer. You deal with the same two people the whole way through. The person who answers your text is the person who remembers what you talked about on the walkthrough. There is no retelling your project to a new face every time, and nothing gets lost in a handoff, because there is no handoff. When something on your property matters to you, the fence line, the flower bed, the one tree you want protected, you say it once and it stays said.
We named the company "Affordable" on purpose. Not cheap. Affordable. There is a difference. Cheap means corners get cut somewhere you cannot see. Affordable means the price is fair for work done right, and you know what that price is before we start.
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If you have never hired an excavating contractor before, here is exactly what working with us looks like. No mystery, no runaround. Five steps, in plain language.
Start with a phone call or a text to (317) 503-6782. Tell us what is going on in your own words. "Water pools by my back door." "I need this old driveway gone." "The yard slopes toward the house." You do not need to know the technical terms, and you do not need to have a plan drawn up. If it is something we handle, we will set up a time to come look at it. If it is not, we will tell you that too, and point you in a better direction if we can.
Casey comes out and looks at the actual site with you. This part matters. Dirt work is site specific. Two backyards that look the same on the phone can be completely different once you see the slope, the access, the soil, and where the water wants to go. Walking it together means you can point at the problem and we can talk through options on the spot, including options that might cost you less than what you originally had in mind.
After the walkthrough, you get an estimate. It is free, and there is no pressure attached to it. Take your time with it. Compare it to other bids if you want to, we are not afraid of that. Honest pricing only works if you have the room to check it. When you are ready to move forward, we get you on the schedule and tell you when to expect us.
On work days, we show up when we said we would and we treat your property like we would want ours treated. That means thinking about where the machine tracks, protecting what is staying, and keeping you in the loop as the work progresses. If we uncover something unexpected once the ground is open, and sometimes the ground has surprises, you hear about it right away, along with what it means and what your options are. No silent change orders.
The job is not done when the digging is done. It is done when the debris is hauled off, the grade is right, and the site is left the way a finished job should look. One of our customers, Glenn Rose, mentioned that we kept up "excellent communication with us, before, during, and after they were done with the work even when we were out of town." After matters. If something needs a second look once the work settles in, call us. We answer.
That is the whole process. No contracts you need a lawyer to read, no pressure tactics, no vanishing act between the estimate and the start date. Pamela Keown hired us for earth work after her pool went in and described us as "very communicative, affordable, and friendly." That is the experience we are aiming for on every single job, whether it is a morning of augering or a full week of excavation.
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A lot of homeowners have never needed to hire dirt work before, so the questions below come up on almost every first phone call. Here are the plain answers.
Excavation is removing earth to create space, like digging for a foundation, a pool, a drainage line, or a pad. Grading is shaping the surface of the ground to a specific slope so it drains correctly and supports whatever sits on it. Most residential projects involve both: you dig to get the ground open, then you grade to leave it right. A contractor with the right machines can do in hours what would take weeks by hand.
Call an excavating contractor when a project involves moving more earth than a shovel and a weekend can handle. Common triggers are standing water in the yard or against the foundation, an old driveway or slab that needs to come out, a new building or addition that needs a pad, a slope that needs a retaining wall, or post holes that need to be drilled to depth. If the job needs a machine, it needs someone who runs one for a living.
Excavation removes material, grading shapes what remains. Digging a trench for a buried downspout is excavation. Reshaping a backyard so rainwater runs away from the house instead of toward it is grading. In practice the two happen together on most jobs, because once ground has been opened up it has to be finished to a proper slope or the site will hold water and settle unevenly.
Water that sits against a foundation soaks into the soil around it, and saturated soil pushes on foundation walls and settles unevenly under footings. Over time that shows up as damp basements, cracked walls, and doors that stop closing right. The fix is usually simple compared to the damage: bury the downspouts, add drainage where water collects, and grade the ground so it falls away from the house. Moving water away from a foundation is some of the cheapest insurance a homeowner can buy.
After a driveway, slab, or structure comes down, the material gets loaded and hauled off site by the contractor. Broken concrete is often crushed and reused as base material rather than simply dumped, and general debris goes to the appropriate disposal facility. The point for the homeowner is that hauling is part of the job. When we demo something, the property is left clear, not decorated with a rubble pile for you to figure out.
One more thing worth knowing. A good excavating contractor will tell you when you do not need one. Some drainage problems are solved with a downspout extension you can buy at the hardware store. Some slopes do not need a wall. When Casey walks your property, you get an honest read on what the problem actually is, and sometimes the honest read is that the fix is smaller than you feared. We would rather earn your trust on a small answer today and get your call on the big project next year.
We are rated 5.0 on Google, and we would rather show you what people actually wrote than tell you how good we are. These are real reviews from real customers, word for word.
"We highly recommend Sterling's!! Excellent communication with us, before, during, and after they were done with the work even when we were out of town."
"Hired Sterling for some earth work after our pool was installed. They were very communicative, affordable, and friendly!"
"We had an excellent experience with Casey. He was professional, punctual, and extremely knowledgeable... Casey and his team worked quickly, taking pride in respecting our request and property. He delivered on everything he said he would do"
"Professional, honest and extremely responsive!"
Seven reviews is not a wall of ratings bought from a marketing service. It is every customer who took the time to write about their experience, and every one of them gave us five stars. In a trade where reputation travels by word of mouth from one driveway to the next, that page is the closest thing we have to a resume.
Notice what keeps coming up. Communication. Respect for the property. Doing what was promised. Those are choices, not accidents, and they are the same choices we will make on your project. You can read all of our reviews on our Google listing.
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We are based in Hendricks County, Indiana, and that is where we do our work. Not a fifty mile radius, not "anywhere in the state." Working close to home means we know the ground here, we know how the water moves after a heavy rain, and we can be on your site without burning half the day driving.
In Danville, we are right in the county seat, handling everything from drainage problems on older properties in town to dirt work on the acreage outside it. Avon and Plainfield have grown fast, and fast growth comes with its own dirt problems: new construction grading that never quite worked, backyards that hold water, and homeowners finishing pools, patios, and additions that need earth moved before and cleaned up after.
Brownsburg keeps us busy with the same mix, along with driveway removals and retaining walls where lots have some fall to them. Out toward Pittsboro and Lizton, the properties get bigger and the projects change with them. More augering for pole barns and fence lines, more pad work, more long drainage runs. We like those jobs. Room to work is a luxury in this trade.
There is a practical benefit to hiring local that goes beyond drive time. Soil and water behave differently from one part of the county to another, and a contractor who works the same ground year after year learns where the clay holds water, which neighborhoods were graded tight to begin with, and what a heavy spring rain does to a given kind of lot. That local knowledge shows up in the estimate, in the plan, and in how well the finished work holds up.
If you are in Hendricks County or just across the line from it, call us. If your project is a little outside the area, ask anyway. The worst we will say is no, and we will say it politely.
Straight answers to the questions people ask before hiring us. If yours is not here, call or text and ask it. That is what the phone is for.
Yes, on every job, with no strings attached. Casey comes out, walks the project with you, and gives you a number. You are free to sit on it, compare it, or move forward whenever you are ready. An estimate is a conversation, not a commitment.
Absolutely. Text (317) 503-6782 with a short description of your project, and photos help a lot if you have them. Plenty of our customers prefer texting because they can send it during a workday and we can respond without playing phone tag.
Excavation and grading, demolition, concrete breaking and hauling, dirt and debris removal, driveway removal, buried downspouts and drainage work, retaining walls, and augering. If your project involves moving earth, breaking concrete, or managing water on a property, there is a good chance it falls under something we do. Describe it and we will tell you.
Yes. Our work ranges from burying a few downspout lines to full excavation and demolition projects. Small jobs are how a lot of our relationships start, and we treat them with the same care as the big ones. Nobody gets brushed off for asking about a modest project.
Sterling's is owned and operated by Casey and Ashley Jones, a husband and wife team. Casey is the one on site running the work, which means the person who gave you the estimate is the person doing the job. You always know who is on your property.
We load it and haul it off your property as part of the job, so you are never left with a pile to deal with. The material goes to the appropriate disposal or recycling destination off site. When we leave, the footprint is clean.
The common signs are standing water that lingers after rain, soggy spots that never firm up, water stains or dampness along the foundation, and mulch or soil washing out in the same place every storm. If water is sitting where it should not or moving toward the house, that is worth a phone call before it becomes a foundation issue.
Call or text (317) 503-6782 and tell us what is going on. We will set up a time to walk the project with you and get you a free estimate. From there, you decide if and when to move forward, and we get you on the schedule.
Sterling's Affordable Excavating, LLC. Family owned by Casey and Ashley Jones, serving Danville, Avon, Plainfield, Brownsburg, Pittsboro, Lizton, and the rest of Hendricks County, Indiana. One call, one honest number, and the dirt work gets done right.
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