GUENTHER CONTRACTING

Guenther Contracting has been providing professional landscaping concepts and designs to Central Michigan, residential and corporate communities for over 30 years. Guenther Contracting prides itself on employing a team of experienced workers. Our teams are directed by a Mitch Guenther to ensure your property is receiving all the attention and services you expect. Guenther Contracting offers a wide range of services from curb-appeal concept and landscape design to retaining wall and complete terraforming.

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Guenther Contracting is dedicated to providing personalized and responsive outstanding customer service along with professional and superior landscaping designs. At Guenther Contracting we treat every client just like family. Guenther Contracting is licensed, insured and centrally located in Jerome, MI to better serve all areas of Jackson and Hillsdale County. To learn more about Guenther Contracting services and our consistent, competitive and reasonable value to fit into your budget, call us! We would be happy to schedule and meet with you for a complimentary written estimate. You can easily reach out to us by phoning 517-795-0585 or complete our online form.

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Site Clearing

The Intricacies of Site Clearing

If you’ve never done it before, you may not understand the detail that goes into site clearing. The fact of the matter is, every property is different, and comes with a unique set of problems that have to be considered and solved before work even begins. That’s one of the reasons you want to hire a land clearing contractor with the experience to be able to see and evaluate these issues before they become a major stumbling block half way through a job.

 

Knowing What You Need

If you’re looking for somebody to get a piece of property to look good for sale, or to be usable for a specific purpose, you want to make sure you know what kind of work needs to be done on the land. There are several things that may need to be cleared from a site, and not every land clearing company is equipped to handle them all.

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A very basic problem that most properties have is that they are overgrown with trees and brush. When a plot has been neglected or unused for long enough, this is bound to happen, and in many cases it gets so bad that you can’t even get past the perimeter without having to hack your way through. In that case, you want to make sure that the company you hire is capable of handling such dense foliage, that they can take care of different types and heights of plant, and that they employ long-lasting solutions.

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Another issue that some new property owners face is that their site includes built structures that need to be eliminated as well. The temptation is to get a different demolition company to come and take care of those, but you can find businesses like Guenther Contracting that can handle the site clearing both for plants and extraneous buildings.

 

Getting the Site Clearing Done

You should expect that the actual clearing of the site is done quickly and professionally. Again, this is where Guenther Contracting's experience comes in. Companies that have been around for a while can give accurate estimates, making sure that both time and budget concerns are met. Very little is more annoying than having to deal with delays that can push back all of your plans.

Once the clearing is finished, there should be very little evidence that anyone had been there. Trash should be gone, parts should be clean, and you should have a property that is in the state that is going to be best for your purposes.

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It’s possible to use your land for many things, but before you do, you need to make sure you hire a high quality company like Guenther Contracting that will do a great job on your site clearing.

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Site work and excavation
Preparing the property for its intended purpose

This includes creating building pads, drives or roads, drainage and special use areas. This can seem quite overwhelming, but we’re the perfect team for Guenther Contracting. We’re prepared to get you prepared with a plethora of dirt work tools and expertise.

Site development is becoming more complicated as government regulations and design requirements dictate what can and cannot be done. We’ll keep right on top of the legal side for you. Mitch Guenther has the experience and knowledge to develop your property to industry codes, and offers complete site work, including demolition services for commercial buildings and residential structures.

Speak to Mitch Guenther at Guenther Contracting about the development of your property: 517-795-0585

 

Commercial Site Work

Mitch Guenther has the heavy equipment to turnkey the development on your commercial property. Typical commercial property development includes shopping centers, dealerships, apartments, sub divisions, malls, restaurants and preparing the land for re-sale opportunities. With a solid steel building, you not only cut down on costs, but the work can be streamlined to meet your demands. You just point at the pad where you need site development, and we’ll take care of the rest.

 

 

Residential Site Work

Planning that dream home? Start up right with a beautiful foundation that is built to last a lifetime. Here in Texas, we have to deal with all sorts of soil and ground shifting difficulties. Depending on your area, climate, and weather patterns, you’re going to need the right soil and compaction to handle time. Just ask Daniel Dean any time you need residential site construction or any residential dirt work. He’s seen it all and can help you with it all anytime.

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Final Grading

After your home is constructed, clean sand is imported and spread around the house so it is nice and smooth and ready to plant grass or install sod.

Screened top soil is absolutely the best material to use, but it is very expensive. Ninety-five percent of the time customers just use clean bank sand for two main reasons:

• It is clean and free of sticks and roots and clay.

• It is the quickest and easiest material to spread out because it doesn’t clump up from the tacky clay material.

 

For the most part there are three different types of sand:

• Top soil (the top 18 inches of soil, which has sticks and roots, but is rich in organics)

• The sand that is below the top soil

• And bank sand (sand where a creek or riverbed used to be)

 

When Mitch Guenther builds a pad, they scrape all the top soil away from the house pad area, so after the construction of the house is complete, this top soil can be used to spread over the clay material that the house pad was built with. This soil is rich in organics from existing sticks and roots.