Family-owned. Licensed and insured. 20+ years combined experience pouring concrete, moving dirt, and building outdoor living spaces across Louisville, Bullitt, Nelson, and Hardin counties.
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Most Louisville homeowners have a contractor story — the driveway guy who took the deposit and ghosted, the excavator whose verbal quote doubled at the bill, the deck builder who showed up three months late with a different crew. We're Jerry Orm (father) and Eric Orm (son), and we built E & J to replace that work. Self-performed concrete, excavation, grading, demolition, decks, pergolas, patios, and retaining walls — our crew, our machines.
A specialty contractor does one trade. A general contractor runs the whole project. We schedule, manage, and self-perform the core scope, then bring in licensed specialty trades when the job needs them.
We also handle erosion control, deck and pergola construction, and full grading and site prep packages. If it touches dirt, concrete, or framing on the ground, it's in our wheelhouse. See our full general contractor services →
Kentucky soil moves. Freeze-thaw cycles, clay swell, and limestone karst will crack a slab inside three winters if the base isn't right. After 20+ years pouring on this ground, we spend as much time on stone, compaction, and reinforcement as we do on the finish. See our full concrete contractor services →
Half the lots in Louisville sit on limestone bedrock or sticky red clay. Most basement quotes assume neither — then the bill jumps when the bucket hits rock at four feet. We walk the site, probe the soil, and price for what's actually under your dirt before we dig. See our full excavation contractor services →
Most demo crews drop the building and walk. The cleanup, hauling, and rough grade fall on you — usually as a surprise bill from someone else. We price the whole job: tear it down, load it out, haul it off, and leave the lot graded and ready for what's next. See our full demolition & land clearing services →
Outdoor living in Kentucky takes a beating — humid summers, freeze-thaw winters, and the occasional 70-mph straight-line wind. We build patios, walls, and structures that stand up to a real Ohio Valley year, not a brochure photo. See our full outdoor living & hardscape services →
Twelve service pages, one crew. Real machines, real operators, real numbers in writing.
Driveways, pads, sidewalks, foundations, and flatwork — poured straight, finished clean, built to last on Kentucky soil.
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Basements, footings, ponds, trenches, and dig-outs. Real excavators, real operators, real day-rates without the surprise add-ons.
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Rough grade, finish grade, drainage correction, and lot leveling. Water flows where you want it — away from the house.
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Lot clearing, brush hogging, stump removal, and forestry mulching. From overgrown weed lots to building-ready acreage.
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Water lines, sewer laterals, drainage, and underground utility trenching. Buried at the right depth, bedded in the right material.
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Full site prep for new builds — clear, strip, cut, fill, compact, and stub utilities. Building-pad ready when we leave.
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Custom wood and composite decks built on real footings — multi-level, wraparound, screened, or simple. Built to outlast the neighbors.
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Cedar, PT, and aluminum pergolas — freestanding or attached. Real footings, real beams, built to handle Kentucky wind and snow.
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Roofed back porches, screen porches, and three-season rooms. Tied into your house's roofline like it was always there.
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Paver patios, fire pits, retaining walls, and outdoor kitchens. Built on a real base so your patio doesn't shift in two winters.
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Concrete, asphalt, and gravel driveways built on a real base. Proper grading, drainage, and a finish that lasts decades — not a couple winters.
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Segmental block, boulder, and poured concrete retaining walls. Built with the right drainage and geogrid so they don't bulge or fail in five years.
Learn MoreTell us about the project — we'll walk it free, usually within 48 hours.
Four counties, dozens of neighborhoods, one crew. Each county brings its own geology and its own headaches — here's what we see day to day:
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Louisville Metro & Surrounding Counties
Interactive service-area map. Use Tab to move between the four counties and five city pins. Press Enter or Space on a county to jump to its details below. Press Enter on a city pin to open that service-area page.
Louisville is our home market. From the Highlands to Prospect, from Fern Creek to Shively, we've poured driveways, dug basements, and graded lots on every kind of soil this city sits on. Jefferson County permitting and Louisville Water tap requirements are second nature to us.
Service Area DetailsShepherdsville is the seat of Bullitt County and one of the fastest-growing markets we serve. Between the I-65 corridor build-out and the steady residential growth off Highway 44 and Old Preston Highway, there's no shortage of dirt to move. We know the county inspectors and we know what the soil does after a hard rain.
Service Area DetailsMount Washington is one of the fastest-growing zip codes in Kentucky, and we've watched it explode firsthand. New subdivisions off Bardstown Road and Highway 44, custom builds on the ridges, and a steady stream of homeowners adding shops, pools, and garages. We work here every week.
Service Area DetailsBardstown — the bourbon capital — sits on rolling Nelson County farmland with deep, well-drained soil and limestone bedrock close to the surface. We work the residential lots inside town, the rural builds out toward Boston and New Haven, and small commercial projects near the bourbon trail.
Service Area DetailsElizabethtown — Etown to most folks — anchors Hardin County and sits at the junction of I-65 and the Western Kentucky Parkway. Steady residential growth, a strong contractor presence around Fort Knox, and a healthy mix of small commercial work. We make the drive from Louisville regularly.
Service Area DetailsCox's Creek is the rural heart of Nelson County — bourbon barrel warehouses, working farms, and a growing number of custom homes on five-to-twenty-acre tracts. We do a lot of pond work, long gravel driveways, ag building pads, and field drainage out here.
Service Area DetailsThe Highlands — Bardstown Road, Bonnycastle, Cherokee Triangle, and Tyler Park — is one of Louisville's oldest neighborhoods, and the lots show it. Tight access, mature trees, original 1900s foundations, narrow alleys, and historic-district considerations. We've poured driveways behind shotgun houses on Bonnycastle and dug footings beside 100-year-old retaining walls. We bring the right size machine.
Service Area DetailsSt. Matthews is Louisville's east-end commerce hub — Shelbyville Road, Mall St. Matthews, Trinity High School, Holy Trinity Parish. Mostly mid-century brick ranches and Cape Cods on quarter-acre lots, with steady tear-down-and-rebuild activity in pocket neighborhoods. We do a lot of driveway replacements, basement waterproofing excavation, and outdoor living additions out here.
Service Area DetailsStraight process. No surprises. No hidden fees.
Fill out the free estimate form (30 seconds) or call Eric directly at 502-498-3173. Tell us what you need — driveway, basement dig, deck, pond, drainage fix. The more detail, the better the first quote.
We come look at the job, usually within 48 hours. Free, no obligation, no high-pressure sales pitch. We probe the soil, measure access, and answer your questions on site.
Itemized price, scope of work, materials, and timeline — all in writing. No hidden fees, no surprise change orders, no verbal estimates that change at the bill.
When we say we will, with the right machines and the right crew. Eric or Jerry is on site every day the work is happening. The job runs to spec or we make it right.
Between us, we've poured concrete and moved dirt for over 20 years on Kentucky ground. We started E & J because too many homeowners and builders were getting burned by contractors who didn't show up, didn't communicate, or padded the final bill.
In our experience working ridge lots in Prospect, we've learned a basement quote without a soil probe is just a guess. Pouring driveways in Fern Creek taught us why a four-inch base on Kentucky clay turns into a cracked slab by year three. After 500+ projects across Louisville and the surrounding counties, we know what holds up here and what doesn't.
When you call, you talk to Eric or Jerry — not a salesperson, not a call center, not a kid in an office. Owner-operated, licensed and insured, written quotes only. That's the whole pitch.
Photos from recent jobs across Louisville and the surrounding counties.
Real reviews from Louisville-area homeowners and builders. Add yours after the job.
"Eric quoted us a new driveway and a regrade for the wet side yard. Crew showed up on time, finished a day early, and the slab is dead flat. Best contractor experience we've had in 15 years in Louisville."
"Jerry dug our basement on a tight ridge lot — limestone everywhere. He hit rock on day one, called me before adding anything, and the final bill matched the written quote. Honest people."
"Used E & J for site prep on a pole barn build. Pad was perfect, drainage swale exactly where we needed it. Fair pricing, no nickel-and-diming. Already booked them for the gravel drive."
"Stamped concrete patio and a small retaining wall. Looks like the photos in their portfolio — no shortcuts. Eric walked me through every option and never pushed an upsell."
Talk to Eric or Jerry directly — no call center, no salespeople.
Concrete, excavation, demolition, decks, patios, drainage — whatever you need built or fixed in Louisville, Bullitt, Nelson, or Hardin County, start with a free on-site estimate. Eric or Jerry walks the job, asks the right questions, and hands you an itemized written quote. No deposit to book, no pressure to sign.
On-site, written quote — usually within 48 hours. Itemized pricing, no hidden fees, no surprise change orders. Tell us about your project and we'll come look.
