Grading · Union, Kentucky
Finish and Yard Grading for Union, Kentucky
Union has the newest housing stock in Boone County, a median build year around 2005 with 140 more homes added since 2020, and new construction is where grading gets decided. The large-lot customs going in along US 42, KY 536, and KY 237, and the activity around the Union Promenade project on 42, all end the same way: a builder leaves, and somebody has to turn torn-up ground into a finish grade a lawn can live on. That last shaping pass over a big Union lot is exactly the work our track loaders and skid steers are set up for.
The short answer
Pro Innovations grades yards, drives, and building pads in Union, Kentucky. On Union's broad Rossmoyne ridges, a fragipan about two feet down perches winter water, so the grade has to carry it off. We set positive fall, spread topsoil, and finish grade for seed, all with one crew. Call 859-910-9272.
The soil sets the rules. Union's wide ridges sit on Rossmoyne, a loess cap over old glacial till with a slowly permeable fragipan about two feet down, and the county soil survey flags the shrink-swell clays in its lower layers as a foundation limitation. Ground that looks bone dry in August perches water from December through April, because rain stops at the pan and stays. So on a Union lot the surface fall does all the drainage work, and with a median home value of $382,900, the highest of any town we serve, grade is cheap protection for an expensive house.
Union also sits inside the 58 square mile Gunpowder Creek watershed, and the city was a named partner in the plan that got the creek off Kentucky's impaired waterways list in 2022 after a decade of stormwater work. Nobody out here wants a fresh grade bleeding mud toward the creek, and neither do we, so our regrades leave with seed and straw down. Union has no interstate of its own; we come up I-75 from exit 166 to exit 178 and west on KY 536, roughly 15 road miles from our Crittenden yard.
What makes Union ground different
Rossmoyne's two-foot pan
The fragipan under Union's ridges perches a seasonal water table right where lawns and footers live. A yard here doesn't drain by soaking, it drains by falling, so we grade every surface with somewhere for winter water to go.
New lawns on big lots
A 2005 median build year and 88 percent owner occupancy mean Union is full of large, owner-kept yards that started as construction sites. Finish grading with fresh topsoil is the difference between a lawn and a reminder of the build.
Gunpowder Creek stewardship
Union helped earn Gunpowder Creek's 2022 removal from the impaired waterways list, so sediment leaving a graded site is taken seriously here. We stabilize fresh grades with seed and straw before we pull out.
Union by the numbers
7,494
Population
2,569
Housing units
2005
Median home built
88%
Owner-occupied
140
Units built since 2020
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 ACS 5-year estimates.
Grading work we bring to Union
Grading in Union: your questions
Do you do finish grading for new homes in Union, KY?
Yes. We take a lot from rough-graded construction ground to a smooth, mow-ready surface: topsoil spread, fall set away from the foundation, and seed and straw down. Builders and homeowners can both call us for that last pass.
Why is my Union yard soggy every winter?
Because of what's two feet under it. The Rossmoyne fragipan stops water from soaking through, so from roughly December to April rain perches near the surface. If your grade doesn't move that water off the lot, the yard holds it. The fix is fall, and sometimes a drain to give the low spot an exit.
Can you regrade a yard in Union without wrecking the landscaping?
We keep the footprint as tight as the job allows. Skid steers let us work between beds and around established trees, and we'll walk the plan with you first so you know exactly what gets disturbed and what doesn't. Whatever we open up, we finish grade and seed.
Do you deliver topsoil and gravel to Union?
Yes, on our own trucks. That's the quiet advantage of hiring us in Union: the material, the grading, and the cleanup ride on one schedule, so the topsoil shows up the day the machine does.
Working on something in Union?
We're minutes up the interstate. Tell us what the ground needs and we'll come look at it.