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Turramurra is a Federation ridge suburb on the edge of Ku-ring-gai Chase, big bush-backed blocks where rock and bushfire shape the work. The regular jobs here are pool digs, basement 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.
Turramurra sits about 18 kilometres north of the city. It's anchored by Turramurra shops, Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park and Bobbin Head. It's ringed by Pymble, Warrawee, South Turramurra, North Turramurra and St Ives. What's changing: apartments near the stations, and knock-down rebuilds and pools on the big leafy blocks.
Turramurra's housing near Turramurra shops runs to federation and interwar homes on large leafy blocks, with strong heritage character, apartments near the stations. Near Turramurra shops, duplex and unit sites cluster near the centres. The work that comes out of Turramurra is pool digs, basement digs and retaining walls.
Around Turramurra shops, Turramurra is on Hawkesbury sandstone with rock close to the surface on ridge-and-gully ground. Sandstone sits close to the surface around Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, so a Turramurra cut is sawn at the boundaries and broken out for anything deep. Around Warrawee, reactive clay, so the fill is layered and compacted.
Turramurra is Ku-ring-gai Council ground; near Turramurra shops, bushfire, tree protection and heritage controls apply and we dig to the approved plans. The Turramurra crew comes in off Bobbin Head Road or Kissing Point Road, where the grade means benching and 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.
Turramurra and the streets around it, from the older estates to the new blocks.
From the older streets to the newer blocks, Turramurra and the suburbs around it. If you're anywhere in the Turramurra area, we can get to you.
See the whole North Shore →It depends on the volume of material, the ground (hawkesbury sandstone with rock close to the surface on ridge), 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.
Almost certainly. Hawkesbury sandstone with rock close to the surface on ridge-and-gully ground. Sandstone is at or near the surface across the North Shore, 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 first site look.
Vibration through sandstone is real and the North Shore blocks are close, which is why boundary edges are sawn rather than broken, hours are kept to council limits, and a dilapidation report on the neighbours is standard before work starts. Monitoring is set up where the engineer requires it.
Yes. Mini machines are craned over the house or walked through it, and rock 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 lower North Shore pools get dug.
Yes, and 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 stays where it is.
Yes, to the conditions. Most older North Shore streets are conservation areas where work near a listed house or a protected tree comes with conditions on the approval, and vibration near old masonry is watched closely. We dig to what’s approved.
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