Property managers, builders and HOA boards
Commercial Stump Grinding for Lewisville Lots and HOAs
Many stumps on one site, taken out in one visit and priced for the visit rather than stump by stump. Tell us the count, the widths and how the machine reaches them, and the quote for the whole site is set on the call.
Free, no-obligation estimates. We quote the whole job before we start, with no surprise charges after.
Commercial stump grinding in Lewisville
Commercial stump grinding is the same below-grade job a homeowner buys, bought instead by a property manager, a builder or an HOA, and usually for several stumps at once. The machine is the same one: a cutting wheel with carbide teeth shaves each stump and its root flare into chips, pass after pass, until the wood sits several inches under the surface, the finish the trade calls "below grade". What changes is the scale. A residential visit is one stump behind a house. A commercial visit is a row of them along a parking island, a cleared lot with a dozen cut trunks on it, or the common areas of a neighborhood that a board keeps up and a manager answers for.
Tommy's Stump Grinding takes both kinds of work in Lewisville, NC and the towns around it, and the difference shows up in the planning more than in the grind. On a residential visit the yard sets the terms. On a commercial one the site does, so the first things we settle on the phone are how many stumps stand on it, how wide the biggest of them run, and where the machine comes in. From those figures the site visit is planned: how long it takes, whether it fits in one day, and what the chips do when the wheel comes up. That visit is what the price is built on.
How a whole site is quoted
A site is quoted from the count of stumps and their widths, and the per-stump price falls sharply once one trip is shared across several of them. Across the trade, several stumps in one visit lower the per-stump price by roughly 30 to 50 percent, because the drive and the setup are the biggest fixed costs and they are paid once. Volume pricing follows the same shape, roughly 10 to 15 percent off each stump on two to five and 15 to 25 percent on six or more. A site quote rests on four counts.
- How many stumpsThe number on the site, the ornamental stubs included.
- The widthsMeasured across the widest part at grade, the biggest few especially.
- The accessWhere the machine comes in, and what it has to cross to reach the far ones.
- What happens to the spoilRaked back into the holes, or hauled off and the holes filled.
The same visit covers surface root grinding along a walk, deep grinding where a slab or a footing goes next, and haul-off of the chips when the site needs to be left clean. With the four counts in hand, the schedule is the next thing to fix.
Cleared lots before the build
A lot cleared of trees is finished by grinding each stump out, so the ground is ready to grade and work. The felling crew takes the trunks and leaves a field of cut stumps at grade, and every one of them has to come out before a grader can pass or a footing can be set. The standard grind runs 6 to 12 inches below grade, which is enough where the lot is going to lawn. Where a slab, a drive or a building pad is going over the spot, the grind goes to 16 inches or deeper, into what the trade calls "construction sub-grade", so nothing soft sits under the base course. Tell us on the call what is going where, and each spot gets the depth its use needs. A stump left behind carries a cost of its own.
Stumps left on managed ground
A stump left standing on ground the public crosses is a trip hazard, and as it rots it draws wood-boring insects toward the buildings near it. A tenant or a visitor who goes down over one can bring an injury claim, and it is the commercial property owner who carries it, which is why the stumps along a walk or a parking island tend to go first. The rot is the slower cost: an old stump feeds termites, carpenter ants and beetles, and a colony that starts there can move to the nearest structure. Leaving a stump is a choice with a bill attached, and what follows from it, season by season, is set out on our page on leaving a stump. What is left after the grind is the spoil.
The spoil on a large job
The spoil from a large job is raked back into the holes or hauled off the site, and haul-off is priced with the job. The wheel leaves a pile of chips and soil beside every hole, the "spoil", and on twenty stumps that is a good deal of it. By default the chips stay in the work area and go back into the holes, raked level, and moving them off the site is not part of the job unless the quote says so. Where the site has to be left clean, hauling the chips away and filling the holes with topsoil is its own line, across the trade roughly $25 to $75 a hole depending on the volume, and it goes on the quote before the machine arrives, never on the invoice after. Say on the call whether the chips stay or go, and the towns we take this work in are next.
Towns in the service area
Commercial jobs are taken in Lewisville and the towns around it. The machine goes most weeks to the places below, and a site farther out is a question for the call. An HOA in Clemmons and a builder in Kernersville are booked the same way as a lot in Lewisville: by the count, the widths and the access.
- Lewisville
- Clemmons
- Bermuda Run
- Bethania
- Winston-Salem
- Farmington
- Tobaccoville
- East Bend
- Rural Hall
- Advance
- King
- Walkertown
- Kernersville
Tommy's Stump Grinding lists the whole service area town by town on the page for the service area around Lewisville, and the two questions managers ask before booking follow below.
Several stumps, one visit, one price
Count the stumps, pace off the widest ones and tell us how the machine gets onto the site. We quote the whole job before we start, we show up when we say we will, and we clean up when the work is done.
More from site managers
Two further questions come up before a site is booked. Both are answered in full on their own pages, and the short form of each is here.
Marking the lines on a site
The free locate should mark the public utility lines, and anything private on the site should be marked by whoever holds the plans. A call to 811, the national "Call Before You Dig" line, has the gas, water and power companies mark their buried lines at no cost before the wheel goes in. Irrigation and landscape lighting are not on that ticket, and we are not responsible for a concealed line nobody marked or exposed, so whoever holds the site plans marks those. North Carolina 811 wants three business days' notice before the 811 locate is complete, and the timing is walked through on our 811 locate page.
Whether paving needs a deeper grind
Yes: paving or building over the spot needs a deeper grind than a lawn does. A lawn is served by the standard 6 to 12 inches below grade, while a slab, a drive or a footing wants 16 inches or more, so no wood is left to rot and settle under it. The stump grinding depth for a lawn, the deeper cut under paving and the depth for replanting a tree in the same spot are set side by side on our depth page.
What our customers say
Tommy came out the same week and took the old maple right down below the lawn. He raked it level before he left and you cannot tell where it stood.
We had three of them and a mess of raised roots along the drive. All of it went in one visit and the spoil went back into the holes.
Needed a big pine out before the new turf went down. Quoted over the phone, done two days later, and the spot was left flat and ready.
One site. One visit. One quote.
Tell us how many stumps are on the site and how wide the biggest of them run. We answer the phone or call back the same working day, and the quote covers the whole site.