Excavation
Excavation is the part of a project nobody photographs and everybody pays for twice if it is done badly. Site prep, grading, trenching and small-scale demolition — the groundwork that decides whether everything built on top of it stays where you put it.
Our own crew runs the machines. Excavation is not subcontracted out, which means the people who set the grade are the same people who have to build on it — and that tends to concentrate the mind.
What This Covers
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Stripping sod, brush and topsoil back to something a build can start from, and setting aside the soil worth keeping. Knowing what is under the surface before the machine arrives is most of what stops a job stalling.
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Cutting and filling until the ground falls the way it should, which on most properties means away from the house. A surprising number of drainage complaints are a grading problem wearing a drainage costume.
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Trenches for irrigation mainlines, low-voltage lighting cable, drain runs and sleeves under future paving. Dug once, to the right depth, with everything that will ever need to cross that line going in together.
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Old patios, failing slabs, cracked walkways, collapsing walls and the concrete footings underneath them. Breaking it out and getting it off site is usually the first honest day of a renovation.
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Pulling stumps and the root plate with them, rather than grinding the top and leaving the rest to rot. A void left by a decaying root system is how a new patio develops a dip three years later.
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Putting the ground back properly: the right material, placed in layers and compacted as it goes rather than all at once at the end. Trenches that settle are almost always trenches that were backfilled in one lift.
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Getting the spoil, the old concrete and the green waste off the property and to somewhere that will legally take it. Worth agreeing up front — disposal is a real line item and a nasty surprise when it is not discussed.
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Most residential back gardens are reached through a side gate, not a driveway. Smaller machines, boards down to protect what stays, and a route planned before anything is tracked across a lawn you want to keep.
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Get the grade and the base wrong and no amount of good finish work will save the project. A settled patio, a wall leaning after two winters, a lawn that will not drain — the cause is nearly always something that happened before any of it was visible.
We do not subcontract the digging. That matters mostly for sequencing: getting a machine onto a property is the expensive part, so while the ground is open we put in everything that belongs underground — drain runs, irrigation mainlines, lighting cable, sleeves under future paving.
The alternative is paying for a second mobilisation, and cutting a trench back through work that was only just finished. Worth planning even the phases you are not building yet.
CONTACT US
If you would like to request service or a consultation, please contact us by phone, email or use the form below.
Where We Work
From our base in Lynnwood we work across thirty cities in both counties. What counts as a land disturbance needing a permit, and where spoil and broken concrete may legally be taken, both change between jurisdictions — worth settling before the machine is booked rather than after.
Alderwood, WA
Bothell, WA
Edmonds, WA
Everett, WA
Lynnwood, WA
Marysville, WA
Mountlake Terrace, WA
Mukilteo, WA
North Creek, WA
Snohomish, WA
Auburn, WA
Bellevue, WA
Clyde Hill, WA
East Renton Highlands, WA
Federal Way, WA
Hunts Point, WA
Issaquah, WA
Kenmore, WA
Kent, WA
Kirkland, WA
Maple Valley, WA
Medina, WA
Mercer Island, WA
Newcastle, WA
Redmond, WA
Renton, WA
Sammamish, WA
Seattle, WA
Shoreline, WA
Woodinville, WA
How It Works
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Send the form or call (425) 648-9443 and describe what needs to come out or be moved. Photos of the access route — the gate, the side yard, the driveway — tell us more than photos of the work area itself.
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We walk the property, measure the access, work out what size machine can actually get in, check where the water and the utilities run, and agree where the spoil goes before quoting anything.
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Our own crew runs the machines, backfills and compacts as it goes, and leaves the site graded and tidy — ready for whatever is being built on top, whether that is our work or somebody else's.
Free consultation across Kirkland, Lynnwood and Redmond, WA.
