Excavation & Earthworks Moore Park

It depends on the volume of material, the ground (botany sand over clay by the parklands), 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.

No, it’s sand and fill. Botany sand over clay by the parklands. South of Cleveland Street the sandstone drops away, and the job is shoring, dewatering and handling the fill rather than breaking rock.

Yes. South Sydney basements are shored digs through fill and sand with the water table close, dewatered to the council’s controls, spoil classified and carted to the right facility, and trucks scheduled around the traffic so the street stays open.

Through the front room on boards with the floor protected, or over the roof by crane. Spoil comes out the same way in bins. Slower than anywhere with a side gate and priced for it, but it’s how inner-city courtyards get dug.

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. Dug in stages to the shoring engineer’s sequence, boundaries protected, groundwater and rock planned for from the geotech report rather than discovered on day two.