Gravel and Road Base
We build and rebuild gravel and road base driveways, ranch roads and pads across the Brazos Valley. We also deliver road base, select fill, pea gravel and dirt by the load.
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Driveway culvert installation puts a pipe where your drive crosses the bar ditch. The ditch keeps carrying rain along the road, and your drive rides over the top. We install new driveway culverts and replace crushed, rusted-out, caved-in or undersized ones. We do this for home driveways, private roads, ranch roads, field entrances and business entrances across the Brazos Valley.
Based in North Zulch, we build the culvert as part of the driveway. The pipe goes on a firm bed at the ditch grade, and backfill is compacted around and over it. Then the drive's road base is built back over the pipe and tied into asphalt, chip seal or gravel. Call or text (979) 595-5944 for a free estimate.
Tell us about the driveway, lot or road. We come out, look at the site and give you a written estimate.
A culvert works only while water can pass through it. Old pipes get crushed at the ends, rust out along the bottom or cave in under the drive. Some were too small from the start, so hard rains back up and run across the driveway.
The signs often show up on the drive first. It sags or cracks over the pipe, water stands at one end, or the ditch washes out around it. The FHWA gravel roads guide warns that plugged or collapsed culverts cause serious damage when water flows over roads.
Culvert replacement is part of our road and site work. A caved-in culvert comes out, and a new one goes in to meet TxDOT requirements. The base is then prepared and made ready for asphalt.
The road owner sets the rules for a driveway culvert, and we install to what they approve. Madison County requires a driveway access permit to install a culvert or build a new driveway. The same goes for any work in the county right of way, from the road to the fence. Work cannot start until the precinct commissioner has been consulted and the permit has preliminary approval.
The county checklist sets the minimum culvert at 24 feet long and 15 inches across. The application asks for the culvert length, diameter and type, with a survey or site plan attached. The commissioner makes the final determination, and there is no application fee at this time.
Drives onto SH 21, US 190 or FM 39 fall under TxDOT instead. No driveway work may start on the state right of way until a fully executed permit has been received. TxDOT's access manual calls for safety end treatments on driveway pipes in the right of way. The pipe ends are sloped, with no culvert headwalls or similar vertical ends.
Culvert work means digging, and Texas law has a rule for that. A person who plans to excavate must notify a notification center before digging. The notice goes in at least 48 hours ahead, not counting weekends and legal holidays.
The old pipe comes out, and the new pipe goes on a firm bed at the ditch grade. The FHWA gravel roads guide shows a new culvert placed right on the flow line of the ditch. That keeps water from collecting at either end. Backfill is then placed and compacted around the pipe and over it.
With the pipe covered, road base is built back up over the crossing and compacted. From there the drive can be finished in gravel, chip seal or hot mix. We pave asphalt driveways with our own LeeBoy pavers and a steel drum roller. Private roads and ranch roads get the same culvert work wherever they cross a ditch.
Free estimates and site visits across the Brazos Valley and about 60 miles around North Zulch.
(979) 595-5944From the first call to the day you can drive on it, here is how it goes.
Call or text (979) 595-5944, or send the form on this page. Tell us what the drive, lot or road is doing now.
We come out, look at the ground, measure the area and see where the water goes. Then the estimate spells out the square footage, the base work and the thickness.
We shape the site so water runs off it, then put the base down and compact it. Soft spots and failed areas get dug out and rebuilt before anything goes over them.
Hot mix asphalt is laid with our LeeBoy pavers and rolled while it is still hot. Chip seal jobs get emulsion sprayed, then rock spread over it and rolled in.
We clean the site up before we leave and tell you how long to stay off the new surface. Striping or sealcoating gets scheduled once the pavement has cured.
Common questions about driveway culverts across the Brazos Valley and about 60 miles around North Zulch. If yours is not here, call and ask.
We build and rebuild gravel and road base driveways, ranch roads and pads across the Brazos Valley. We also deliver road base, select fill, pea gravel and dirt by the load.
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New asphalt driveways, gravel drives paved over and worn out drives replaced. We grade the site, build the base and lay hot mix with our own LeeBoy pavers.
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We pave private roads, ranch roads and subdivision streets in hot mix asphalt or chip seal. The base, the crown and the ditches come first, so water leaves the road.
Learn MoreWe grade for drainage, put the base down and compact it, then lay hot mix asphalt on top. The ground under the pavement decides how the job holds up.
LeeBoy asphalt pavers, a double steel drum roller, dump trucks, a lowboy trailer, skid steers and a mini excavator. The base work and the paving run on our own machines.
We pave driveways at houses and ranches, parking lots for businesses and churches, and private roads shared by several homes. Residential and commercial work runs through the same company.
We come out, look at the site, measure it and give you a free estimate. You get a 3-year written warranty on new asphalt we install, and a 2-year written warranty on repairs and patching (non-structural issues).
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What driveway culvert installation costs in Texas: national cost guide ranges, county permit fees from Brazos to Waller, pipe size and material rules.
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How a TxDOT driveway permit works in Texas: Form 1058, the 24-hour notice, the design rules TxDOT checks, and when the county or city issues it instead.
Read more →Tell us what needs paving, sealing, patching or striping, and we will come out and look at it. Call or text (979) 595-5944, or send the form with the details of the job.
Tell us about the driveway, lot or road. We come out, look at the site and give you a written estimate.