Danville, Kentucky · Licensed · Insured · Bonded
Foundations, walkways, pavers, and retaining walls, plus the excavation that sets them up right: site prep, french drains, land clearing, and demolition. One crew owns the dirt and the concrete, so nothing gets lost between trades.
Most concrete problems start in the dirt. A slab poured on ground that was never compacted, a footer set on fill that keeps settling, a walkway that heaves because water sits under it: those are excavation mistakes wearing a concrete disguise.
Scott Construction KY runs both sides of that job. Ben handles the excavation and the grading, then pours the concrete on ground he prepared himself. When one contractor is accountable for the ground and the pour, the finished work has a foundation you can trust, and you have one number to call instead of two contractors pointing at each other.
Ben Scott has 28 years in construction, and Scott Construction KY is licensed, insured, and bonded. That combination is rare in this market, and it is exactly what you want from the contractor digging next to your house.
The crew that cuts and compacts the ground is the crew that forms and pours on top of it. Nobody is blaming the excavator for the slab, or the other way around.
Fill that was never compacted is the reason footers settle and walkways heave. The ground gets prepared on purpose and checked before the concrete truck is called.
A yard that holds water is a drainage problem with a concrete symptom. Grading and drains are designed in, not added after the first wet spring.
Site work and concrete both sit inside Boyle County’s permit process, and we handle that paperwork as part of the job.
Concrete is permanent. That is the whole point, and it is also why it has to be right the first time. Here is what we form and pour across Danville and the surrounding counties:
Every good build starts with good ground. Our excavation work covers the full run of site services:
Central Kentucky gets real rain in every season, and a yard that stays soggy is telling you the water has nowhere to go. Standing water works its way toward the lowest point on your property, and too often that point is your foundation.
A properly built french drain fixes the problem at the source. We trench the line, set the grade so gravity does the work, bed the pipe in stone, and finish it so your yard looks like a yard again. Pair it with corrected grading and the water leaves your property instead of living in it. If the water is already reaching the house, the reason a basement floods after rain is worth reading before anyone digs.
Kentucky has no statewide general contractor license, so the trust work happens at the local level, and that is where Scott Construction KY stands on solid ground.
Working in Boyle County requires a contractor’s license issued through the county building inspector and renewed every year. Pulling a permit here also requires proof of general liability insurance of at least $350,000 and workers’ compensation coverage for the crew, and work inside Danville city limits requires a city business license on top of that. Demolition and pools are among the projects that require permits in this county.
We carry those credentials and we build to them. When your project needs a permit and an inspection, that process is part of the job, not an extra you have to chase.
You call Ben and talk to the person who will actually run the work. He walks the site with you, checks the grade, the access, and the drainage, and comes back with a straight number.
On dig day the crew shows up when Ben said they would. The site gets worked clean: spoils managed, strings pulled, forms set square, and concrete poured and finished right. At the end you walk the finished work with Ben, and done means you say it is done.
Every job carries a one year workmanship warranty, and on jobs up to $10,000 you do not pay anything until the job is complete.
We are based in Danville and work the counties our neighbors call home: Boyle County, including Junction City and Perryville, plus Mercer, Lincoln, Casey, and Jessamine counties out to Nicholasville.
That radius matters on excavation work. Equipment, haul routes, and weather windows all get easier when your contractor is local, and when the ground surprises you, and ground does, you want the decision-maker on site, not on the other end of a dispatcher. Ben is on the job, and the answer to “can you come look at it” is yes.
Yes. We prepare the ground and pour the concrete as one job, with one contractor accountable for both. That is how the finished work stays flat, dry, and square for the long haul.
Demolition and pools are among the projects that require permits in Boyle County, and permitted work requires the contractor to show a county contractor’s license, general liability insurance of at least $350,000, and workers’ compensation. We carry all of it, and we handle the permit process as part of the job.
Yes. A front walk, a run of curb, or a paver path gets the same crew and the same standard as a full site prep. Call Ben and he will give you a straight number.
Yes. Land clearing and bush hogging are part of our regular excavation work, from opening up a building site to cutting back a field that got away from you.
On jobs up to $10,000 you do not pay anything until the job is complete. Every job carries a one year workmanship warranty, in writing.
A straight answer costs nothing to ask for. Send the details or call, either way you talk to Ben.
