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Gastonia, NC • Gaston County
Lot drainage, yard grading and landscaping for Gastonia homeowners

Landscaping & Drainage Contractor in Gastonia, NC

Mobile service across Gaston County. We come to your property — free estimates, no trip fee.

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How We Serve Gastonia, Gaston County

Southern Style Turf & Design is a mobile service-area business with no customer-facing office. We come to your property in Gastonia for estimates and installation.

Our crew works across Gastonia and all of the towns we serve every week. We know the local roads, so we can get to properties quickly and show up when we say we will. Every estimate is completed at your property, free, with no trip fee.

Gastonia is the largest city in Gaston County and its county seat, with a mix of older in-town neighborhoods and newer subdivisions spreading out around it. Southern Style Turf & Design serves Gastonia as a mobile contractor. There's no local office to visit; we come to your home, walk the property with you, and handle the job with our own crew.

Because Gastonia has so many different kinds of lots, the work varies. But the most common thread is water that isn't draining the way it should, and yards that need regrading before anything else can go in.

Gastonia Lots: Clay, Slopes and Settled Grades

Like the rest of Gaston County, Gastonia sits in the Piedmont, where rolling terrain and red clay soil are the norm. Clay sheds water fast when it's dry and holds it for days when it's wet. Heavy summer storms can drop more rain in an hour than a compacted yard can absorb, and the runoff heads for the lowest point on the lot.

In older neighborhoods, decades of settling, tree roots and patchwork additions often leave grades that tilt back toward the house. In newer subdivisions, the issue is usually compacted fill and builder grading that wasn't shaped to carry water between closely spaced homes. Either way, adding topsoil to a low spot rarely fixes it for long. The water needs a planned path out.

What Gastonia Homeowners Call Us For

Listed roughly in order of how often they fit Gastonia properties. All work is done by our own crew.

  • Drainage Solutions — Designing a drainage path for the whole lot, not just the wettest corner.
  • Grading & Excavation — Regrading yards so surface water moves away from foundations and toward a safe outlet.
  • French Drain Installation — Subsurface drains where water is moving through the soil rather than across it.
  • Retaining Walls — Retaining walls for sloped backyards, built with drainage behind them.
  • Paver Patio Installation — Paver patios on properly prepared, graded bases so they don't settle.
  • Landscape Design — Landscape plans for bare or tired yards once grade and drainage are right.

Not sure what's causing a water problem? Try our free Drainage Helper tool first.

School and Commercial Grounds

Our crew has also installed planting beds in Gastonia for non-residential grounds, including a river-rock bed around a school sign. If you manage a property that needs bed installation or drainage work, the estimate process is the same: we visit, assess, and give you a written scope.

Concrete Pour in Gastonia

Concrete driveway pour in Gastonia, NC.

Recent Work in Gastonia

A commercial bed our crew completed in Gastonia: a river-rock planting bed with junipers, roses and ornamental grasses inside a block border around a school entrance sign, keeping the grounds neat and the bed easy to maintain.

River rock planting bed with junipers, roses and ornamental grasses inside a block border around a school entrance sign in Gastonia, NC

Related services: planting & mulching, landscape renovation and drainage solutions.

Like What You See? Request an Estimate in Gastonia

Send us a few details about your Gastonia property and Josh will reach out directly. Prefer to talk? Call 704-460-2019.

From Call to Finished Job

  1. Call or request an estimate and tell us what you're seeing.
  2. Site visit at your Gastonia property to look at grade, water paths, access and soil. No trip fee.
  3. Written scope and price before any work starts.
  4. Utility locates and any required approvals sorted out before digging.
  5. Installation by our own crew, then a walkthrough with you.

Gastonia Project Questions

Do you have an office in Gastonia?

No. We're a service-area business with no customer-facing office. We drive to your Gastonia property for estimates and installation.

Will adding dirt to a low spot fix standing water?

Usually not for long. Fill settles, and the water that collected there still arrives. Most Gastonia standing-water problems need a regraded swale, a drain line, or both.

Do you do retaining walls in Gastonia?

Yes. We build retaining walls for sloped lots. Taller walls can require engineering or permits, and we'll tell you if yours is likely to before you commit.

How do I start?

Try our free Drainage Helper tool to describe the problem, then call 704-460-2019 or send the estimate form. Estimates are free.

Nearby Communities We Serve

Full confirmed service area: Denver, NC; Stanley, NC; Davidson, NC; Gastonia, NC; Mt. Holly, NC; Troutman, NC; Cornelius, NC; Mooresville, NC; Statesville, NC; Terrell, NC 28682; Lincolnton, NC 28092; Cherryville, NC 28021; Huntersville, NC 28078; Sherrills Ford, NC; Lake Norman of Catawba, NC.

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