TL;DR
Rough grading is the earthmoving phase that shapes a site to within a few inches of its design elevations—cutting high spots, filling lows, and establishing drainage swales and building pad—before utilities, hardscape, and topsoil placement. Performed with skid steers, dozers, or graders working from the grading plan, it sets the slopes that will forever steer water around the structure; the standard call is fall away from foundations on all sides.
What it means
Rough grading is the earthmoving phase that shapes a site to within a few inches of its design elevations—cutting high spots, filling lows, and establishing drainage swales and building pad—before utilities, hardscape, and topsoil placement. Performed with skid steers, dozers, or graders working from the grading plan, it sets the slopes that will forever steer water around the structure; the standard call is fall away from foundations on all sides. Final grading later dresses the surface for seed or sod.
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