Trenching, digging and dirt work on residential and small commercial lots. Footers, drain lines, culverts, stump and root-ball removal, and anything the loader can’t reach. Quoted per job.
Clearing and grading move a lot of material approximately. Excavation moves less material exactly, and usually next to something you can’t afford to hit.
Excavation is the work that happens when a job needs a hole, a trench or a cut in a specific place at a specific depth. An excavator does what a loader cannot: reach over things, dig down rather than across, work in a confined space, and place material instead of pushing it.
Two things we don’t do, and would rather say up front than halfway through: septic systems, and anything that ties into a public utility main. Both are separate trades under state licensing and neither is work we take on.
Everything starts the same way regardless of the job: call 811. It’s free, it takes two to three working days, and it’s how buried power, gas, water, cable and fiber get marked before a bucket goes in the ground.
Two different machines for two different problems. Sending the wrong one costs you money.
Four steps, and the first one isn’t optional.
Worth knowing on Florida ground:
Five Central Florida counties out of Titusville. Ground conditions and water table vary enough between them to change how a dig runs.
Most drainage problems are shape problems and never need a trench at all. Worth ruling that out first.
See grading →At the roadCulverts, ditch crossings and access come as one job with the drive itself.
See driveways →Clearing firstRoot mass and stumps out before precise digging starts.
See land clearing →For normal residential work. Footers, drain lines, culverts, stump removal. Depth is rarely the limit. What limits a dig here is the water table and the fact that sand won’t hold a vertical wall. Anything deep enough to need engineered shoring is beyond what we take on, and we’ll tell you that before starting rather than after.
We make the 811 call and work to the marks, and you tell us about anything private that 811 doesn’t cover. Irrigation lines, a well feed, propane, invisible fencing. Those are the ones that get hit, because nobody has a record of them except the person who put them in.
Usually, and it’s one of the things an excavator is good at. How close depends on what the structure is founded on and how deep you need to go. Undermining a footing is a real risk with a real cost, so it’s a conversation before it’s a quote.
Your call. Spread on site is free and usually sensible if the material is decent. Piled out of the way costs nothing extra. Hauled off is truck loads and tipping and it’s priced separately. Bear in mind a dig produces noticeably more spoil than the hole looks like it should.
No. Septic installation and repair is a separately licensed trade in Florida and it’s not work we take on. If your project needs it, get that contractor lined up early. Their schedule usually drives everything else.
Yes, and it’s a common call. Old stumps and root balls come out whole with an excavator, including ones that have been ground down at the surface and left with the root mass still in the ground.
Most quotes come back the same day. No deposit, and the price we agree on is the price you pay.