What is commercial excavation? What is included in excavation services? How do you find the best excavation services in your area? We will answer all of those questions in this article, we being J & A Excavation in Fort Worth. For the very best in excavation services in Tarrant County, remember two simple letters, J & A.
What is meant by commercial excavation?
Commercial excavation is simply earthwork for non-residential projects, such as malls, condominiums, commercial buildings and industrial constructions. The objective of commercial excavation is the same as residential excavation – to prep the site for construction. This includes removing debris such as trees and rocks, digging for underground spaces and utilities, and redistributing and compacting soil for grading, drainage, and soil stability.
What is included in normal excavation services?
The problem with this question, and we are asked it often, is in defining normal. Each job is a bit different, depending upon the customer’s needs and the condition of the excavation site. There are considerable differences between pond excavation for a dairy farm, driveway excavation for a future retail store, and residential excavation for a future apartment complex.
Having said that, these steps are fairly common in the excavation process for most jobs:
- Site study
- Site clearing
- Site preparation
- Drainage installation and soil stabilization
- Actual excavation of the site
- Site clean-up
A brief look at each of these will follow.
Site study
Each site is different. What types of soil are involved? Where are the slopes to the land? What type of additives will need to be included to make the soil stable enough for construction?
Site clearing
Trees, brush clearing, rocks, all need to be removed from the proposed site.
Site prep
Staking out the job, making sure exact measurements are taken, making sure all contingencies have been accounted for. If done properly, everyone is on the same page when the excavation actually begins.
Drainage and stabilization
How many property owners out there have decided to take the DIY route but have not accounted for future drainage when the rains return to the area? Poor drainage causes more damage to foundations and driveways than any other cause, and it is because a drainage system was not installed at this point in the excavation process.
Excavation of the site
The actual excavation of the site.
Clean-up
And, finally, the hauling away of the excavated dirt, trees, brush, and rocks, leaving a clean worksite for future construction.
How do you find the best commercial excavation company in your area?
Ask around! That is the best advice we can give. The cream will rise to the top. If you do a quick survey, over a couple of days, asking commercial enterprise owners who did the excavation for their project, chances are excellent that the same two or three names will keep being mentioned. If you are having a farm pond excavated, go ask a handful of farmers. If you are having an apartment complex excavated, go ask apartment owners. This may seem like a tedious, time-consuming step to take, but it is necessary if you want the best working on your site.
A final word about J & A Excavation
Family owned and operated, J & A Excavation is a trusted name in the Fort Worth area. Ask around and you’ll find this to be true. Our reputation precedes us, and we are proud of our reputation.