A husband and wife team with dirt on their boots
Sterling's Affordable Excavating, LLC is a family owned excavation company run by Casey and Ashley Jones, a husband and wife team serving Hendricks County, Indiana. When you reach out, you are not talking to a call center, a dispatcher, or a salesperson reading from a script. You are talking to the people who will stand in your yard, look at your project with you, and then do the work themselves.
That is a different experience than most homeowners are used to. With a lot of companies, the person who quotes the job never sees it again. The details you explained on the phone get lost somewhere between the office and the crew. Questions go through three people before they come back with an answer, if they come back at all. With Sterling's, the line between you and the work is short. The person who looks at the site is the person who runs the machine. If something changes, or a question comes up mid-project, you are talking to the same people you talked to on the first call, and you will still be talking to them at the final walkaround.
Being family owned also means the name on the estimate belongs to real people who live and work here. Every project either builds our reputation with our neighbors or chips away at it. We treat each job like it matters, because to us it genuinely does.
The values behind the name
In our own words, Sterling's is 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." Those are easy words to put on a website. Here is what they look like on an actual job.
Honest pricing means you get a straight number for the work we described together, explained in plain language, with no games and no surprises buried in the fine print. Affordable is in our name because it describes how we approach every quote, not because we cut corners to hit a figure. Dependable service means we show up when we say we will, and when weather or ground conditions shift the plan, you hear it from us instead of finding out on your own. And lasting relationships means we would rather do the job right and have you call us back years from now, or send a neighbor our way, than squeeze an extra dollar out of a single project. Excavating is the kind of work people only need occasionally, so the only way to build a company like ours is to be worth remembering.
What customers keep telling us
We hold a 5.0 rating on Google, and if you read through the reviews you will notice the same themes surface again and again. Communication is the big one. Customers mention hearing from us before, during, and after the work, even in one case while they were out of town the whole time. Punctuality comes up too, along with honesty, friendliness, and how quickly we respond when someone reaches out.
One review means a great deal to us. A homeowner had needed a project done for years, but every other contractor they talked to disregarded their request to minimize damage to the property. Casey and the team took the request seriously, worked quickly, took pride in respecting both the wishes and the property, and delivered on everything that was discussed. That story is the whole job in miniature. Listen to what the customer actually wants. Then do exactly that.
How a project comes together
It starts with a call or a text. Tell us what you are dealing with. Maybe it is a yard that will not drain, an old driveway that needs to go, a slab you want broken out and hauled off, or a pile of dirt sitting in the wrong place. We will ask a few questions, and if photos would help, you can text those over too. Estimates are free, so there is no cost and no pressure in simply finding out where you stand.
From there, we look at the site, talk through the plan with you, and give you a clear picture of the work before anything starts. While we are on the job, you will know what is happening and why. When the work is finished, we walk it with you and make sure it matches what we talked about. None of that is complicated. It is just rarer than it should be.
The work we take on
Sterling's handles dirt, concrete, and drainage work for homeowners and property owners across Hendricks County:
- Excavation and grading: digging, site preparation, and reshaping ground so water and structures end up where they belong.
- Demolition and concrete breaking: removing old slabs, pads, small structures, and full driveways.
- Dirt removal and hauling: loading and carrying off excess dirt, debris, and broken concrete instead of leaving you a pile to deal with.
- Buried downspouts and drainage: moving roof and surface water away from your foundation and out of your yard.
- Retaining walls: holding back grades and turning slopes into usable space.
- Augering: clean, accurate holes for posts, piers, and footings.
If your project touches more than one of those, that is normal. Most jobs do, and we can scope the whole thing in a single conversation.