Bay Area Excavation. Dug To The Number.
Foundations, trenches, piers up to 30 feet, grading to plan with lasers, and backfill compacted to the percentage your soils engineer specified. Not to the eye. 20+ years of it, CSLB #1105573, with our own fleet and our own trucks.
Seven services, one fleet, no subcontracted hauling.
Because the machines and the trucks are ours, material comes in and spoil goes out on the same mobilization instead of waiting on someone else's schedule.
Foundation excavation
Nothing starts until the ground is right. Site cleared if it needs clearing, then earthmoving to plan, at any size. Careful planning and preparation first, because a foundation dug by eye is a foundation that gets re-dug.
Utility trenching
Upgrading an electrical circuit, or running utilities out to a new ADU, shed or garage. Digging by hand through concrete, pavers or hardpan is close to impossible. We have the machinery and the manpower to dig and backfill any size trench.
Pier drilling
Structural plans on unstable ground call for deep piers, and those need specialized augers, drill bits and machinery. We own the rig and the accessories, and we drill piers up to 30 feet deep. Twenty-plus years of it for contractors and homeowners.
Grading
Level ground is the condition every build and every hardscape starts from. We grade to plan with lasers to hit the exact elevation or slope called for, at any size, with a fleet that can grade a backyard or a whole jobsite.
Backfill & compaction
Refilling what was excavated, or building ground up for something new. Native soil or imported material such as baserock and sand, with the trucks to import or export any quantity. Compacted to the percentage the soils engineer dictates, not to the eye.
Dirt removal & hauling
A pile of fill dirt you cannot get rid of is a project that has stopped. Removing dirt is exhausting and back-breaking work, and it is routine for us. We pick up whatever gravel or dirt you have excavated so the job moves again.
Bobcat services
Affordable bobcat work across the entire SF Bay Area, the Peninsula and the South Bay. With attachments it stands in for an excavator or a backhoe: trenching, drilling for foundations and retaining walls, and breaking out concrete patios, sidewalks, driveways and old foundations.
Every trench exists for a reason. The reason sets the depth.
Drainage, sewer, gas, power, footings. Each utility gets buried to its own requirement, with provision for environmental protection, and kept reachable for the maintenance that comes later.
French drains
The trench the drainage system needs before it can be installed, cut to fall.
Sewer lines
Sewage has to move across the property, and the line has to stay reachable for maintenance later. Every utility gets buried accordingly, with provision for environmental protection.
Gas and HVAC piping
Natural gas and propane lines run under homes and commercial properties. Those trenches exist to protect the pipe from environmental damage and keep the gas moving efficiently underground.
Retaining walls and footings
Footing trenches for retaining walls and foundations, dug to the structural plan rather than to a guess.
Power and utility runs
Circuits upgraded, or service taken out to a new ADU, shed or garage. Dug and backfilled by the same crew.
Four steps, and only the first one is yours.
Send the plan or the problem
Either works. The structural plan and the elevations, or just "there is a pile of dirt and a trench that needs to exist."
Free on-site walkthrough
We check access for the machines, what is under the ground, and what the plan actually demands. Written, itemized price. No charge.
Locates before the first dig
Utilities located and marked before a machine touches the ground. On a trench or a pier that step is the whole difference between a job and an incident.
Dug, graded, compacted, signed off
Excavation to plan, material in or out on our trucks, compaction to the engineer’s number, and the ground handed over at the elevation your next trade needs.
Our own rigs, our own trucks.
Excavators, augers, skid steers and dump trucks on our own yard. Wilhan and his crew quote the job and run the job.
Foundation dug to plan
Auger on the pier rig
Utility trench, spoil benched clean
Backfill going in, in lifts
What contractors and owners ask first.
Depth, compaction, hauling and locates. If your question is not here, ask it on the walkthrough.
Send the plan. Get a written number.
We check access for the machines, what is under the ground and what the plan actually demands, then put an itemized price in writing. No charge, no obligation.
Serving Richmond, El Cerrito, San Pablo, Pinole, Hercules, Berkeley, Albany, Oakland, Alameda, Walnut Creek, Concord, Pleasant Hill and the rest of the Bay Area, plus the Peninsula and the South Bay for bobcat work.