Excavation Questions, Answered

Yes — licensed to install basic septic systems, which covers standard tank and drain field installs. If a site requires an engineered or alternative system, we'll say so rather than take it on.

Most standard residential installs run two to four days of actual work once the permit is in hand and the tank is scheduled for delivery. Permitting and inspection timelines are what usually set the overall schedule.

Yes. Septic installs go through the health district, including a soil evaluation before the design is approved. We work that process into the job.

Often, yes — if the drain field is still functioning. We'll look at both before quoting, because replacing a tank into a failed field just moves the problem down the line.

It depends on length, width, how much cut and fill the ground needs, and rock haul distance. We'll walk it, measure it and give you an itemized number rather than a per-foot guess over the phone.

A standard residential driveway is usually one to two days. Long rural lanes with culverts and significant cut and fill take longer.

A typical shop or outbuilding pad is one to two days. Larger pads, deep fill or hard digging take longer, and we'll tell you which one you're looking at after walking the site.

Yes — fill goes in in lifts and gets compacted as it's placed. Skipping that is why slabs on new fill crack a year or two later.

Below the local frost depth, per code — that's what the inspection checks. We dig to the depth your plans and the local requirement call for and hold elevation across the footprint.

Most residential basement digs are one to three days depending on size, soil and how far the spoils have to move. Rock changes that.

Always, before any digging. It's free, it's required, and hitting an unmarked line is the most expensive thing that can happen on a trenching job.

Depends on the line. Water and gas go below frost depth per code; sewer and drain lines are set by the fall they need to run. We dig to what the line actually requires.

It depends on acreage, how heavy the growth is, and what happens to the debris. Brush mowing an overgrown lot and stripping a site to bare dirt are very different numbers.

Yes, and it's worth doing both in one trip. We clear, strip and rough grade so the site is ready for pad or foundation work without a second mobilization.

Frequently, yes. If the ground has settled and now slopes toward the house, correcting the grade so water runs away is the cheapest first thing to try before anything more invasive.

Most residential lots are one to two days depending on size and how much dirt has to move. Adding fill or cutting swales takes longer.

Sheds, outbuildings, small barns, lean-tos, carports, old fencing and concrete slabs. Houses, commercial buildings and anything needing a demolition permit or asbestos survey are outside what we do.

Metal to a recycler, concrete to a concrete recycler, the rest to the transfer station. It is hauled the same day in the dump trailer.