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Wedderburn is an acreage suburb on the Georges River sandstone gorge, rock excavation, retaining and pools on bushfire-rated blocks. The regular jobs here are rock excavation, retaining walls and pool digs. 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.
Wedderburn sits about 62 kilometres south-west of the city. The markers are Wedderburn acreage, Georges River gorge and Dharawal National Park. It's ringed by Kentlyn, St Helens Park, Appin and Gilead. What's changing: acreage rebuilds, pools and sheds cut into the rock, and retaining on the gorge slopes.
In Wedderburn, near Wedderburn acreage, it's mostly acreage and bushland-block homes on the gorge edge. Near Wedderburn acreage, the bigger blocks are clearing, dam and shed work. In Wedderburn that's rock excavation, retaining walls and pool digs more often than not.
On the Georges River gorge edge, Wedderburn ground runs to Hawkesbury sandstone with rock close to the surface, near Wedderburn acreage. The rock under Georges River gorge is close, so Wedderburn footings and pits are broken out and the spoil leaves the block as rock. Around St Helens Park, reactive clay, so the fill is layered and compacted.
Wedderburn is in Campbelltown City Council; the Wedderburn acreage end carries bushfire and tree protection controls, so we dig to the approved plans. The crew reaches the Wedderburn job off Appin Road or Wedderburn Road, where there's open rural ground to work, past Kentlyn.
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.
Wedderburn and the streets around it, from the older estates to the new blocks.
From the older streets to the newer blocks, Wedderburn and the suburbs around it. If you're anywhere in the Wedderburn area, we can get to you.
See the whole Macarthur and Camden area →It depends on the volume of material, the ground (hawkesbury sandstone with rock close to the surface on the georges river gorge edge), 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.
On the escarpment edge, yes. Hawkesbury sandstone with rock close to the surface on the Georges River gorge edge. Toward Wedderburn, Appin, Wilton and the Georges River gorge, sandstone is usually within the first metre, ripped where it’s weathered and broken where it isn’t. It’s in the quote when the site look finds it.
Yes. House and shed pads benched into the rolling ground, dams shaped in clay, long driveways boxed and based, and clearing done to the Cumberland Plain woodland and bushfire rules. Mine subsidence approval applies on some southern blocks and is checked first.
It affects the approval more than the dig. Mine Subsidence Advisory NSW has to approve the build, and that can set conditions on footings and fill. We flag it at the site look and dig to what’s approved.
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. 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.
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