Foundation Excavation in Paris and Brant County

The details

A foundation dig sets up everything built on top of it. We cut it square, to depth and to the drawings, then backfill and grade so water runs away from the house instead of into it.

New homes, additions and shops

We dig foundations for new houses, additions, garages, barns and shop buildings across Paris, Brantford, St. George and the rest of Brant County. We work from your engineer’s or designer’s drawings and shoot grades with a laser level, so the footings land where they are supposed to and the walls are the height the plans call for.

Total Site Packages

If you would rather deal with one contractor, we can take the site from raw lot to final grade. That means stripping topsoil, digging the foundation, placing granular base, pouring footings and walls through our concrete company, backfilling with clear stone, and rough and final grading at the end. One crew, one quote, one schedule.

How we handle water and soil

Brant County has a lot of clay. Clay holds water against a foundation, so we talk about drainage before we dig: weeping tile, clear stone backfill and a grade that falls away from the walls. Sandy ground slumps, so we bench the walls of the excavation for safety and cut wider where we need to. If we hit rock, we tell you right away and quote the breaking before we go further.

Equipment and crew

We run our own excavators, skid steers and dump trucks, and we keep the right size of machine for the job. A tight lot in Paris gets a compact excavator; a shop pad on a farm gets a full-size machine and a bigger bucket. The same crew that digs your foundation is the one that backfills it, so nothing gets lost between trades.

Permits and locates

You need a building permit from the County of Brant or the City of Brantford before a foundation goes in, and we need Ontario One Call locates before we dig. We order the locates and wait for the clearances. Tell us your timeline early so the paperwork does not hold up the dig.