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Killarney Heights is a bush-backed sandstone suburb above Middle Harbour, rock-and-retaining pool ground with bushfire ratings. 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.
Killarney Heights sits about 15 kilometres north-east of the city. The markers are Killarney Heights shops, Bantry Bay and Garigal National Park. It's ringed by Forestville, Seaforth and Frenchs Forest. What's changing: knock-down rebuilds, pools and basement garages cut into the rock, and retaining on the steep blocks.
Killarney Heights' housing near Killarney Heights shops runs to mid-century and newer homes on steep sandstone blocks, with knock-down rebuilds throughout. Near Killarney Heights shops, duplex and unit sites cluster near the centres. On a Killarney Heights block that usually means basement digs, pool digs and retaining walls.
On headland and ridge blocks, Killarney Heights sits on Hawkesbury sandstone with rock close to the surface, out by Killarney Heights shops. Sandstone sits close to the surface around Bantry Bay, so a Killarney Heights cut is sawn at the boundaries and broken out for anything deep. Around Seaforth, the sandstone is sawn at the boundaries and carted out as rock.
In Northern Beaches Council, Killarney Heights around Killarney Heights shops sits under bushfire and tree protection controls, so the dig follows the approved plans. Access to Killarney Heights is off Starkey Street or Tyrol Avenue; the slope is worked in benches with retaining, near Forestville.
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.
Killarney Heights and the streets around it, from the older estates to the new blocks.
From the older streets to the newer blocks, Killarney Heights and the suburbs around it. If you're anywhere in the Killarney Heights 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.
Asset protection zones set how far the bush is cleared back and the BAL rating changes the build. Clearing is done to the approved plan, and on the plateau the ground under the bush is usually sandstone, so the pad is rock work as well.
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.
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