Land O' Lakes sits straight north of our base in Citrus Park. US 41 runs there, and so does the Suncoast Parkway. Land O' Lakes is unincorporated, with no city hall of its own. It is a census designated place in Pasco County, so permits go through the county. The name fits the place. Lake Padgett, Lake Saxon, Bell Lake and Lake Thomas all sit inside Land O' Lakes. Homes ring most of them. Behind the lakefront streets you still find fenced pasture and open wooded acreage.
The community grew fast. It went from about 4,500 people in 1980 to nearly 36,000 in the 2020 census. New subdivisions filled in around the older lake subdivisions. Connerton, Bexley, Ballantrae and Wilderness Lake Preserve went up on land that used to be woods and ranchland. Plenty of acreage is still uncleared. Some parcels back up to wetland or conservation land. Two kinds of work come with that mix. Raw acreage gets cleared and turned into a homesite. Or an older house on a lake lot comes down, and demolition makes room for a new build. The lakes and the low ground set the pace on both. We bring our own excavators and dump trucks up from Tampa.
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A lot of Land O' Lakes acreage has never been cleared. Palmetto and pine cover most of it, along with old fence line growth. We clear what has to go and leave the trees you want to keep. Our excavators pull stumps and root balls out whole. A skid steer works the tight spots near lot lines. Brush and stumps get loaded into our dump trucks and hauled off. You end up with open ground you can see and measure. That is the point where a builder can stake the house.
If a structure is standing, demolition comes first. Site preparation follows. We cut the pad to the elevation the plans call for. Sandy soil digs easy, but it settles if it is not compacted. We compact the fill in lifts with a plate compactor. If the lot sits low, we bring in fill dirt with our own trucks and spread it. We can dig footers and stem wall trenches, then set the pad up for rebar. Driveway and utility trenches get cut on the same trip when it makes sense.
Water sits close to the surface in Land O' Lakes. Pasco County soils are sandy marine deposits that drain poorly. The USDA soil survey puts the seasonal high water table near 12 inches deep from May through October. On a lot close to Lake Padgett or Bell Lake, that shows up fast. You dig a trench in August and it fills with water. Land grading has to move water off the pad before anything else gets built. We cut the slope so water runs away from the house and toward the low side.
Drainage systems handle the water that grading cannot. We dig trenches for pipe and set them to a fall that keeps water moving. A french drain works well on a lot where the yard stays soggy after rain. On lakefront lots we keep the machines back from the bank. Sandy banks slide when heavy equipment loads them up. Spoil goes straight into our dump trucks and off the lot. Demolition near a lake gets the same treatment. We take the structure down, then fill and grade the hole back flat.
Communities & areas we serve around Land O' Lakes: Connerton, Bexley, Wilderness Lake Preserve, Ballantrae, Lake Padgett Estates, Plantation Palms, Dupree Lakes.
Land O' Lakes ZIP codes served: 34637, 34638, 34639.
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A house that needs to come down, a lot that needs clearing, a yard that holds water? Call or send the form and we will look at the job with you and price the whole thing, teardown through final grade. The estimate is free.
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