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Levelled and compacted house site behind a timber boundary fence, track marks across the sand

Earthworks & Site Prep

Getting the ground right before anyone pours concrete

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Most jobs start here. Cutting a slope into a level platform, stripping topsoil off a build site, shaping a driveway that will still be there in ten years. We run our own machine, so the people reading the levels are the people on the sticks.

Excavation & Earthmoving

Bulk dig, cut and fill, trenching, and muck shifted where you need it.

  • Bulk excavation and cut-to-fill on residential and rural sites.
  • Trenching for services, drainage and water lines.
  • Topsoil strip and stockpile, spoil carted or spread on site.
Track loader working a tight fenced backyard section with the laser level set up

Site Leveling

Flat, compacted and to level, checked before the machine leaves.

  • Levelling and grading to a set finished height.
  • Batter slopes shaped so they hold rather than slump.
  • Compaction as the fill goes in, not as an afterthought.
Roller and laser level beside a freshly compacted building pad and new metal driveway

House Site & Shed Preparation

A building platform your builder can start on the day they arrive.

  • Platform cut and formed to the plans you have been given.
  • Hardfill supplied, placed and compacted.
  • Access track in first if the site needs one for the truck.
House site marked out in paint on a frosty morning, open farmland behind

Driveway Preparation & Construction

Formed, drained and metalled — rural driveways that survive winter.

  • New driveways formed from scratch, including culverts and crossings.
  • Existing driveways ripped, re-shaped and re-metalled.
  • Crossfall and side drains set so water leaves the surface.
Freshly metalled rural driveway running up to the gate under tall trees, dug clay heaped in the foreground

Get earthworks & site prep priced

Ring for a straight answer on whether it is a job for our machine, or send the details through and we will come back to you.

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