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Collaroy Plateau is a ridge suburb on sandstone above the beach, rock-and-retaining pool ground with ocean views. The regular jobs here are basement digs, pool digs and retaining walls. 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.
Collaroy Plateau sits about 19 kilometres north-east of the city. Locals place it by Collaroy Plateau shops, Long Reef and Narrabeen Lagoon nearby. It's ringed by Collaroy, Cromer, Wheeler Heights and Narrabeen. What's changing: knock-down rebuilds, pools and basement garages cut into the rock, and retaining on the steep blocks.
Collaroy Plateau's housing near Collaroy Plateau shops runs to mid-century and newer homes on steep sandstone blocks, with knock-down rebuilds throughout. Near Collaroy Plateau shops, the older brick and fibro is renovate-or-rebuild ground. Day to day around Collaroy that's basement digs, pool digs and retaining walls.
Collaroy Plateau, near Collaroy Plateau shops, is on Hawkesbury sandstone with rock close to the surface on headland and ridge blocks. The rock under Long Reef is close, so Collaroy Plateau footings and pits are broken out and the spoil leaves the block as rock. Around Cromer, the sandstone is sawn at the boundaries and carted out as rock.
In Northern Beaches Council, Collaroy Plateau around Collaroy Plateau shops sits under tree protection controls, so the dig follows the approved plans. Access to Collaroy Plateau is off Veterans Parade or Plateau Road; the fall has to be benched and retained, near Collaroy.
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.
Collaroy Plateau and the streets around it, from the older estates to the new blocks.
From the older streets to the newer blocks, Collaroy Plateau and the suburbs around it. If you're anywhere in the Collaroy Plateau area, we can get to you.
See the whole Northern Beaches →It depends on the volume of material, the ground (hawkesbury sandstone with rock close to the surface on headland and ridge blocks), 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.
Yes. Hawkesbury sandstone with rock close to the surface on headland and ridge blocks. On the headlands, the plateau and the slopes, sandstone is at or near the surface, so pools, basements and garage cuts are rock jobs: sawn at the boundaries, broken in the middle, carted as rock. It’s in the quote from the site look.
Yes, and it’s the standard slope pool. The shell outline is sawn into the sandstone, the middle is broken out, and the rock is craned or barrowed out where there’s no side access. Slower than sand and priced for it.
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. One house down, the block stripped, and two pads cut and compacted to the engineer’s spec, with the basement dug if the design has one.
Yes. Small machines go through the house or over the fence by crane, and spoil comes out by conveyor or barrow. Slower than a side-gate job, but it’s how most inner-suburb digs are done.
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