Ground out or dug out
A stump comes out for good one of two ways: ground below the lawn where grass goes back, or dug out with its root ball where a new tree or a footing needs the roots gone. We look at the stump and the spot, and the free estimate says which.
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Below grade
Homes and businesses
Stump removal takes a stump out of a home or business yard for good, and what goes on the spot next decides how it comes out.
Stumps are the whole of our work, residential and commercial alike. A front-yard stump that the lawn will grow back over is one job; a stump where a new tree, a patio or an addition is going in is another, because then the roots have to go too. We tell you which on the estimate, before anything starts.
Which way it comes out
Grinding below grade suits a spot going back to lawn or sod and costs less, while digging out the root ball suits a spot where a new tree or a footing goes in.
Full removal
Full removal digs out the stump and its main roots with heavier equipment and fills the hole, and the free estimate tells you whether your spot calls for it.
Removal by grinding
Removal by grinding follows the major surface roots out from the stump and takes the wood below grade, so sod or seed can take over the spot.
What it costs
Local figures for Richmond put stump removal at a typical $60 to $350 a stump, and digging out the root ball typically costs 2 to 4 times what grinding the same stump does.
Digging costs more because it takes heavier equipment, more labor and a larger cleanup. Within either method, the stump's width at the ground sets most of the price, and its wood, the way in and the count of stumps set the rest.
Those are typical figures, not our quote. We price your stump after seeing it, for the whole job, and nothing is added once the work starts.
Same machine, other jobs
Surface roots across a lawn and lots with many stumps are jobs of their own, and each one has its own page.
Roots that run across the lawn and catch the mower are ground down to the stump's depth, so root grinding leaves the yard flat enough to mow and seed.
root grindingA lot, a building site or common ground with many stumps on it is commercial stump grinding, quoted by the size and the count of the stumps.
commercial stump grindingAfter the stump is out
Once the stump is out, the spot is backfilled with topsoil, graded and seeded or sodded, so it does not settle into a hole.
Grinding leaves a hollow of chips and soil, and digging leaves a deeper hole. Left as they are, both sink as the wood underneath breaks down, so the finish work goes on the estimate as its own line: haul the chips or rake them in, fill, grade, then seed or sod. Rubber-tracked machines keep the turf around the spot from rutting on the way in and out.
Google reviews
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.
One call gets a free, no-obligation estimate for the whole job. We answer Monday to Saturday, 7 am to 6 pm, and return any other call the next working morning.
We show up when we say we will, and we clean up when the work is done.
