Ground before spring
The typical home here was built around 1990, so the trees beside it are full-grown, and a stump left from one keeps pushing roots toward the walk. Ground below grade this fall, once the leaves are down, the spot is ready to seed by spring.
Call (804) 429-8770, Monday to Saturday, 7 am to 6 pm. The estimate is free and carries no obligation.
Raked level
Below grade, by the inch
We grind each stump as deep as the next use of its spot asks for, and only as deep as whatever is buried there allows.
Where the utility locate flags a gas, water or electric line close by, the wheel stays high. It is the honest fallback, and some stumps may sprout from what is left.
Enough for grass seed or sod to root over the spot once the chips are raked back and settled.
Below the root collar the growth point is gone, and most trees stop sending up suckers around the old trunk.
Deep grinding clears room for a young root ball where the old tree stood.
A "construction-ready sub-grade" puts base gravel on soil instead of wood that would rot and sink under it.
Tell us on the call what goes on the spot next, and the estimate is written to that depth.
The lay of the land
This is a community of 9,697 homes, most of them owner-lived and most of them dating from the years around 1990.
From the streets of Grove Place to the blocks around Thomas Dale High School, the yards went in with the houses, and the trees went in with the yards. A generation on, those trees are full-sized, so when one comes down beside a drive, a fence or a foundation it leaves a wide stump whose roots keep spreading. Dealt with now, that is a stump job; left alone, it can turn into a walk or a slab to repair. Kiwanis Park, the Village Green and the Lowe's Athletic Complex keep the big open ground; on a house lot, the open ground is the spot the stump is holding up.
Past the single stump
Some stumps have to come out entirely, some leave roots across the grass, and some stand on a lot that is about to be built on. Each is its own job with its own page.
Owners live in 72.9 percent of the homes here, and an owner setting a new tree where the old one stood, or pouring a footing there, needs more than a ground stump.
Stump removal goes well below the usual grind or digs the root ball out, so new roots and new concrete meet clean soil.
root ball removalYards planted around 1990 hold trees old enough for their roots to break the surface and ridge the lawn well out from the trunk.
Surface root grinding follows those ridges out from the stump with the same machine and takes them under the turf. The deep roots stay in the ground and rot away.
surface root removalWhether the ground is a business site or one of the 9,697 home lots here, building starts once the stumps are gone.
Commercial stump grinding takes every stump on the lot down to sub-grade in one visit, quoted by size and count, for a builder or a homeowner alike.
stump grinding for constructionOn Google
We had trees removed by Elias who than used Garcia to remove stumps. Great work. Curtious, polite and got it done in no time. Thank you.
Garcia stump grinding is awesome! He took care of a lot of stumps we had in an efficient way. Our yard looks so much better! Highly recommend.
The Garcia Stump Grinding team gets it done every time rain or shine. We still have more work to do and we will call them again being that we only work with these guys. Highly recommend. Easy to get along with and they work extremely quick and clean. Really, these guys will steam roll a tree/ stump job.
Down the road
The same free estimate and the same raked-clean finish reach every town in the area we serve around Richmond.
Bensley, Meadowbrook, Brandermill, Enon, Colonial Heights, Ettrick, Matoaca and Hopewell are on the same reach.
A job outside the line is a question for the call: (804) 429-8770.
Before you call
A stump job is priced stump by stump, with the width at ground level setting most of it and the wood, the reach for the machine and the cleanup making up the rest. Several stumps in one visit cost less each, because travel and setup are the biggest fixed costs.
We give a free estimate that covers the whole job before we start, and there is more on what stump grinding costs.
We pick up Monday to Saturday, 7 am to 6 pm, and a call outside those hours is returned the next working morning.
We show up when we say we will, and the price we quote covers the whole job, with nothing added after.
