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Campsie is a Federation-and-brick suburb on Cumberland Plain shale, knock-down, townhouse and pool work with reactive-clay footings. The regular jobs here are pool digs, site cuts and knock-down rebuild site cuts. Services located first, sites left level and clean.
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From a knock-down rebuild to a new estate pad, each service has its own page with the detail.
Campsie sits about 12 kilometres south-west of the city. The markers are Campsie shops, Beamish Street, Cooks River and Campsie station. It's ringed by Canterbury, Belmore, Lakemba, Clemton Park and Belfield. What's changing: knock-down rebuilds, granny flats and dual-occupancy, and pools and townhouses on the older lots.
Most blocks in Campsie, around Campsie shops, are federation and post-war brick homes with granny flats and knock-down rebuilds. Near Campsie shops, duplex and unit sites cluster near the centres. On a Campsie block that usually means pool digs, site cuts and knock-down rebuild site cuts.
On the Cumberland Plain, Campsie ground runs to Wianamatta shale over reactive clay, near Campsie shops. On the flat Campsie blocks around Beamish Street, the fall has to be cut into the pad and the trench because the ground gives none of its own. Around Belmore, the clay is reactive, so fill goes in in compacted layers.
In City of Canterbury-Bankstown, Campsie near Campsie shops carries no overlay, so the cut and fill runs under the DA or CDC. Access to Campsie is off Canterbury Road or King Georges Road, near Canterbury.
Every job follows the same sequence, whether it's a single trench or a full site cut.
A trench can be a day, a basement can be weeks. Dates come with the quote, not after.
Campsie and the streets around it, from the older estates to the new blocks.
From the older streets to the newer blocks, Campsie and the suburbs around it. If you're anywhere in the Campsie area, we can get to you.
See the whole Bankstown and Canterbury area →It depends on the volume of material, the ground (wianamatta shale over reactive clay on the cumberland plain), access for the machine and how far spoil has to be carted. Every job gets a written quote after a site look, with the dig, cartage and cleanup spelled out, so you know what’s included before anything starts.
Usually, if the excavation is part of a build. Cut and fill beyond set limits, work near boundaries and anything on a lot with a flood, bushfire or heritage overlay needs approval as part of the DA or CDC. We work to the approved plans; check with your certifier before the dig is booked.
A trench, pool dig or single pad is a day or two; a knock-down site cut or a basement runs longer and depends on volume, ground and weather. Dates come with the quote, not after.
Rarely on the flat streets. Wianamatta shale over reactive clay on the Cumberland Plain. Shale under the clay is ripped rather than broken. The rock in this region is on the Georges River side, not around Bankstown and Canterbury centres.
Yes, and Canterbury-Bankstown is the busiest duplex market in Sydney. The old house down, slab and footings out, the block stripped, and two pads cut and compacted to the engineer’s spec, with the shared driveway boxed out at the same time.
Reactive clay. It swells in wet winters and shrinks in dry summers, and anything poured on loose or uncompacted fill moves with it. A pad cut and filled in compacted layers to the engineer’s spec is what stops the new slab doing the same thing.
Yes. The old house down, slab and footings out, the block stripped and the new pad cut and compacted, as one run if you want the demolition handled too.
Yes. Wianamatta shale over reactive clay on the Cumberland Plain. The pool builder’s engineer will usually want the base checked, which is standard, and the machine is sized to the side access.
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