Property
I have a property problem.
Drainage, a driveway, a dig, clearing, or a trench. We find the cause and do the work.
Site development · DC · Maryland · Virginia
We solve the ground between buying property and building on it.
Water that won’t drain. A driveway that washes out every storm. Land you bought and can’t build on yet. DigRight finds the cause, plans the fix, and does the work.
Where to start
Start with the problem, not the machine.
Land
I bought land. I’m buying land.
A Land Assessment, then the ground a house needs: access, a well or septic, utilities, and a building pad.
Excavation is the tool. Solving the problem is the product.
Anyone can rent a machine. What you’re paying for is knowing where the water wants to go, what a driveway needs under it to last, and what has to be true about a piece of ground before a house can sit on it.
We bring that judgment from building custom homes. Our own Bobcat fleet handles everyday work, and we bring in larger rented equipment when a job calls for it.
Raw land to build-ready
The ground, in the order it has to happen.
Buying the property is the easy part. A house needs access, water, waste, power, drainage, and a pad — figured out before anyone pours a foundation.
Read the land
Where a house can sit, how water moves, and what the county will ask for. Often this is a Land Assessment.
Make a way in
A driveway and an entrance that construction can use, built so you don’t pay for them twice.
Water and waste
A well or public water, and a septic area or a sewer path. These decide where the house is allowed to go.
Bring power
Conduit and the other trenches, dug once and backfilled so they don’t sink next spring.
Send the water away
Grade, swales, and drains, so storms leave the house and the drive alone.
Leave it build-ready
A pad prepared, the site stabilized, and a note on what was done. Then a house can start.
The method
Assess. Plan. Execute.
Most ground problems get dug twice: once wrong, once right. We’d rather spend the time understanding the property first.
Assess
Walk it, ideally after rain. Where the water comes from, where it’s trying to go, what’s buried, and how a truck gets in.
Plan
A written scope. Materials named. Two options when it helps: the fix for today, and the fix that lasts. Price and schedule in writing.
Execute
Our crew and our equipment. A Miss Utility ticket on every dig. Photographs, and a short note on how to keep the work working.
A Square One company
Builder standards, applied to the ground.
DigRight is part of Square One Development Group, the custom-home builder at sq1built.com. Square One builds architect-led homes across Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia.
On those houses, the driveway, the drainage, and the pad have to last for decades, because the house depends on them. DigRight holds site work to that standard — including on properties that will never have an architect.
Since 2011, this crew and equipment worked only on Square One’s custom homes. Now DigRight takes on site work for property owners, landowners and other builders.
Land
You bought the land. Now what?
The Land Assessment is a builder’s look at your property: research, a site walk with you, and a written plan. It is a flat fee, quoted up front before we start.
Book a Land AssessmentRecent work
Jobs on the ground.
Haymarket, Green Meadow, Purcellville, Mapleville, and other projects. Town and project names only.
Service area
Home market first. Larger projects farther out.
Small excavation and property work is concentrated around our home market. Larger site-development and build-ready projects are considered throughout DC, Maryland and Northern Virginia.
Everyday work
The home market, and nearby.
Washington County, Maryland, including Hagerstown. Frederick County, Maryland. Loudoun County, Virginia. The West Virginia Eastern Panhandle: Berkeley, Jefferson, and Morgan counties, plus nearby markets.
Larger projects
DC, Maryland, and Northern Virginia.
Site development and build-ready lots, considered throughout Washington, DC, Maryland, and Northern Virginia.
Not sure which this is? Call (202) 345-5795.
What you can check
A Square One company
A trade name of Square One Development Group, LLC. sq1built.com
No ticket, no dig.
Miss Utility or Virginia 811 on every excavation. A policy, not a certificate.
Licensed and registered.
MHIC #103840. MD Home Builder #135315. Montgomery County #BC4063. VA Class A #2705167584. DC #420218000143.
Questions
A short version.
What does DigRight actually do?
DigRight prepares ground. Drainage, driveways, excavation, utilities, and the work of taking raw land to the point a house can be built. Excavation is the tool. Solving the property problem is the product.
Where do you work?
Small excavation and property work is concentrated around our home market. Larger site-development and build-ready projects are considered throughout DC, Maryland and Northern Virginia.
How fast do you reply?
Steve or a project lead will call you back.
Do you publish prices?
The price is in writing after we’ve seen the property.
Are you a separate company from Square One?
DigRight is a trade name of Square One Development Group, LLC. The work on this site is site development and land solutions. Square One’s architect-led homes stay at sq1built.com.
Tell us about the property
Send the address and a few photos.
Steve or a project lead will call you back.