Grading and Mounding Services in Sioux Falls, SD

Black Sheep Landscape offers landscape grading and mounding services for commercial and residential properties around the Sioux Falls, South Dakota, area. Landscape grading reshapes or levels the ground for visual or practical purposes. Landscape mounding creates hills and other ground-shaping masses for aesthetics and functional roles, depending on the client's request.

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Why Land Grading is Important

Land grading moves soil, typically to create a smooth or sloping ground. This makes it easier to control how water flows across a property. No business or homeowner wants rainwater to flow toward a building foundation, so land grading is a very important landscape service for new builds, old residential or commercial land, or around existing buildings that did not have properly graded ground at the time of construction.    

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​Land Grading Services​

Land grading services create a flat or gently sloping area of land that looks level to the naked eye. But when it rains or when sprinklers overwater, the slope becomes obvious when the water starts to move in a specific direction - typically away from building foundations and toward gutters or existing water features. Land grading is particularly useful to protect buildings, prevent flooding, preserve topsoil, and to prevent standing water.

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Building Foundation Protection

Black Sheep Landscape offers land grading services to protect residential and commercial building foundations. Water damage can be an expensive repair, but with the right grading service, local Sioux Falls home and business owners can rest easy while everything from rainwater to broken water pipe leaks flow away from buildings.

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Flood Prevention

Basement flooding can be an issue if your land isn't professionally graded to slope away from your property. Prevent floods and flood-related structural damages with professional land grading services by Black Sheep Landscape.

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Soil Erosion Protection

Soil erosion is when the topsoil is removed by water, wind, construction, or even kids playing on the lawn. Soil erosion can lead to patchy grass growth, the loss of soil nutrients, which can lead to dying or dead plants, less water retention, and even holes in the ground, which poses a safety risk for employees at work sites and children playing on lawns. If you live in the Sioux Falls, South Dakota, area, call Black Sheep Landscape for soil erosion protection grading services.

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Pest Control 

​Did you know standing water is a sign of poor land grading? And that mosquitos only need a small amount of standing water to lay their eggs and reproduce during the warmer months? Black Sheep Landscape can help you protect yourself from mosquitos with professional land grading services.​​​

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Why Mounding Services are Important

Land mounding services do the opposite of land grading services. While land grading smooths and slopes earth, mounding adds elevation in the form of hills or mounds. Mounding services are often used for aesthetic appeal, privacy, and adding dimension to an otherwise flat yard.

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Land Mounding Services

Expert land mounding services are available in the Sioux Falls, SD, area by Black Sheep Landscape. These services are customized to fit your specific property size, needs, and aesthetic. Once mounding services are complete, let our professional landscapers add curb appeal by planting flower beds, trees, shrubs, and other beautiful landscaping features.

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Improved Privacy

Professional land mounding services allow you to add a layer of privacy without an unsightly, expensive, difficult-to-maintain wooden fence. Once the dirt on your property has been expertly collected into natural-looking mounds and waves, our landscape team can plant grasses, shrubs, trees, and flowers to add an additional layer to your privacy.

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Noise Reduction

The more earth you have between your property and your neighbor's property, the more noise reduction you both enjoy. Land mounding services in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, provides a buffer between you and your neighbors, traffic, and even same-yard buildings, such as mother-in-law additions, workshops, and sheds. Noise is further reduced when leafy plants are installed on the mounds, such as ferns, coleus, and hostas.

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Visual Depth

In flat yards, flower beds can add a splash of color, trees can add vertical depth, and shrubs can provide texture, but land mounds take things to the next level. Professional land mounding helps add character to a space, and gradually grades out so water can't accumulate on them. Land mounds are perfect solutions for curbside appeal - especially when you plant things on it, add natural-looking water features, or boulders.

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Naturally Define Spaces

Land mounds create natural-looking separation between flower beds, trees, buildings, shrubs, and other landscape features. Aesthetic land mounds are often used to gently separate play areas from gardens or seating areas and you can still plant on and around them, making them the perfect solution when you don't want permanent hard lines like fences or cement work.

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