Being the local shop also means we know these properties. We know which streets in the village sit low, which subdivisions were built on ground that was tiled farmland ten years earlier, and which older homes on the east side have foundation grading that stopped working two decades ago.
Getting here: Our shop is on OH-249 in Hicksville — this is home.
Hicksville soil and why water sits
Hicksville sits on the western edge of the old Great Black Swamp. The soil under most of the village is heavy silty clay with very low infiltration — it was farmland kept productive by tile, and a lot of that tile still runs under residential lots. When we open a trench on a Hicksville property we frequently find clay tile lines from decades ago, some working, some collapsed. That is why a yard here can hold water in one spot for three days and drain fine twenty feet away. Diagnosing it takes probing and a laser level, not a guess.
What Hicksville properties usually need first
The village has a mix of century homes near the downtown blocks and postwar ranches on larger lots toward the edges, plus true rural acreage once you get past the corporation line. Older homes almost always need grading corrected at the foundation and downspouts carried away — settling over eighty years reverses the slope every builder originally set. Rural properties out toward the Indiana line need something different: long drives that have to be plowed, windbreak trees that need pruning, and open exposure where anything newly planted takes wind from the west with nothing to slow it.
Winter service in the village
Snow is half of what we do, and Hicksville is the first route we run. Wind is the real issue here, not accumulation — open farmland west and north of the village means drifting closes a rural drive long after the snow stops falling. We stake drive edges in the fall, we make return passes when drifting warrants it, and we salt walks and entries, not just the pavement a truck can reach.
What Hicksville properties call us for
These are the services this ground actually needs, ordered by what the soil and terrain in Defiance County demand rather than by what is easiest to sell.
- Snow Removal & Ice ManagementPlowing, shoveling and salting on a trigger you set — residential drives and commercial lots, all winter.
- Lawn Mowing & Property MaintenanceWeekly mowing, trimming and edging on a schedule you can set your watch by — residential and commercial.
- Landscape Design & InstallationA drawn plan before a shovel moves — so the beds, grades and plant choices still make sense in year ten.
- Drainage Solutions & Yard GradingFrench drains, swales and regrading that move water away from your foundation before it costs you a basement.
- Paver Patios & HardscapingPatios and walkways set on eight inches of compacted base — the reason ours are still flat after ten Ohio winters.
- Spring & Fall CleanupsThe two visits a year that decide how the rest of the season goes — debris out, beds reset, leaves gone.
Areas we cover in Hicksville
We work throughout Hicksville and the surrounding Defiance County townships, including properties near downtown Hicksville, the Indiana state line and Hicksville Exempted Village Schools. Zip codes served: 43526.
Why Hicksville property owners choose us
This is our home ground
Hicksville sits inside the counties we work every week from Hicksville. That shows up most in winter, when distance decides whose driveway gets cleared first.
We fix the water before anything else
Every dollar spent on plants or hardscape sitting on ground that stays wet gets spent twice. On Defiance County soil we diagnose drainage first — and often the honest answer is two downspouts rather than a system.
46 Google reviews, licensed and insured
Verbatim reviews from neighbours across the region, full coverage on every crew and machine, and financing available so a full plan can be built in one season.
One contractor for all four seasons
Landscaping April through November and snow and ice through the winter, from the same crews. The people who stake a drive in November are the people who mowed it in July.
Nearby places we also serve
Hicksville sits in Defiance County. We cover these neighbouring communities too:
