Rochester Dirt Work does excavation and dirt work in Stewartville, MN — digging, grading, gravel driveways, and site prep for acreage lots, farm places, and in-town yards, with a free written estimate on every job.
Stewartville sits just south of Rochester, and a lot of our work there is the ground around newer homes and acreage on the town's edge — yards that need their final grade, drives that need a real base, and pads for the shop building that comes a year or two after the house.
Most lots here need the same order of work: dig it first, grade it so the water behaves, then put the surface on — the driveway, the pad, the finished yard. We run the whole order with our own machines and one crew.
The ground around Stewartville rolls easy and drains toward the creeks, which means wet low corners are the usual call — a swale or a regrade fixes most of them.
Below is the full menu as it runs in Stewartville, how a job goes from the first call to the final walk-through, and a recent job nearby. When you're ready, call (612) 260-8779 — the look and the written estimate are free.
Foundations, basements, ponds, and trenches in Stewartville price by the cubic yard — $50–$150 a yard, $1,500 floor — with the spoil spread on your lot or hauled off at $300–$600 a load. Footings get dug below frost depth, and the yardage math goes in your written estimate.
Finish grading at $0.50–$1.25 per sq ft leaves a Stewartville yard lawn-ready; rough grading at $1.00–$2.25 per sq ft reshapes slope and drainage. Swales and driveway culverts move the water off once the grade sends it there.
New gravel driveways run $1.75–$4.50 per sq ft on a deep frost-ready base; top-up refreshes run $0.75–$1.50. Building pads price by size — $1,500–$3,500 for a garage or shed pad, $2,500–$5,600 for a house pad — cut, filled, and compacted in lifts.
You call (612) 260-8779 or send the form and tell us about the lot in Stewartville — what you're building, fixing, or draining, and any date you're working against.
We come out and walk the lot in person. Dirt work can't be priced honest off a photo — soil, access, and where the water sits decide the job.
You get the scope and the price in writing, with the unit math shown. The price we write is the price you pay unless the scope changes — and if it does, we talk first.
Machines show up on the day we set. We dig, grade, and haul in the order we talked through, and keep the site passable while we work.
When the last pass is done, we walk the lot with you and check the grades together before we call it finished.
We also serve the towns around Stewartville — see excavation in Rochester and excavation in Kasson.
Regraded about 3,000 sq ft of yard in Stewartville that held water after every rain — shaped it to fall away from the house, cut a shallow swale to the street ditch, and finish-graded it seed-ready.
"The back yard stayed soggy for days and the mower left ruts every single time. They regraded it so it falls away from the house and cut a swale I can mow right over. It dried out after the next rain and it has stayed dry." — Beth, Stewartville
In Stewartville and ready to move some dirt? Call (612) 260-8779 — we'll come look and put it in writing.