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La Perouse is a headland suburb on sandstone at the tip of Botany Bay, tight rock, retaining and site-cut work with sea 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.
La Perouse sits about 15 kilometres east of the city. It's anchored by La Perouse headland, Bare Island, Botany Bay National Park and Congwong Beach. It's ringed by Little Bay, Phillip Bay and Chifley. What's changing: knock-down rebuilds, pools and basement garages cut into the cliff rock, and retaining on the steep blocks.
Most blocks in La Perouse, around La Perouse headland, are interwar and mid-century homes with newer luxury rebuilds on the cliff blocks. Near La Perouse headland, knock-down rebuilds are the running theme. Day to day around Little Bay that's basement digs, pool digs and retaining walls.
La Perouse ground runs to Hawkesbury sandstone with rock close to the surface on the coastal cliffs, over by La Perouse headland. Around Bare Island a La Perouse dig hits sandstone in the first metre, sawn at the edges so the neighbour's ground stays put and broken in the middle. Around Phillip Bay, the sandstone is sawn at the boundaries and carted out as rock.
La Perouse is Randwick City Council ground; near La Perouse headland, coastal hazard and tree protection controls apply and we dig to the approved plans. The La Perouse crew comes in off Endeavour Avenue or Bunnerong Road, where the slope is worked in benches with retaining.
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.
La Perouse and the streets around it, from the older estates to the new blocks.
From the older streets to the newer blocks, La Perouse and the suburbs around it. If you're anywhere in the La Perouse area, we can get to you.
See the whole Eastern Suburbs →It depends on the volume of material, the ground (hawkesbury sandstone with rock close to the surface on the coastal cliffs), 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 the coastal cliffs. On the headlands and the harbour slopes sandstone is at or near the surface, so pools, basements and garage cuts are rock jobs from the start: sawn at the boundaries, broken in the middle, carted as rock. It’s in the quote from the site look.
Yes, it’s a common harbour-slope job. The rock is sawn at the house footing line and the boundaries and broken out in stages to the engineer’s underpinning and shoring sequence, so the house above and the neighbour’s house stay where they are.
Yes. Mini machines are craned over the house or walked through it, and spoil comes out the same way in bins or by conveyor. Slower than a side-gate job and priced for it, but it’s how most Eastern Suburbs backyards get dug.
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. Hawkesbury sandstone with rock close to the surface on the coastal cliffs. 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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