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SERVICE 03 · SYDNEY-WIDE

Excavation in Sydney

Pools, basements, house cuts and piering — dug to the engineer’s drawings and finished to survey level, not “near enough”. Tight access is our bread and butter: we get machines into blocks others quote a crane for.

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Why Choose Ouss Civil for Excavation in Sydney

An excavation that passes inspection starts long before the bucket hits dirt: Dial Before You Dig searches on every metre, utility locating where the plans look thin, and cut levels checked against the survey — because AS 3798 is what your geotech certifies against, not what the operator reckons. In Sydney that also means knowing where the sandstone starts, because rock is the difference between a two-day dig and a two-week one.

We dig off the engineer’s drawings with a GPS-guided 20T Komatsu PC200, so levels are machine-checked as we cut rather than fixed afterwards. When the shelf shows up, the 13T CAT’s breaker deals with it on the spot, and our own truck & dog fleet carts spoil the day it’s dug.

✓NSW-licensed contractor with $20M public liability — paperwork ready before day one✓GPS-guided 20T Komatsu PC200 for bulk cuts, machines down to 990 mm for tight access✓Dial Before You Dig on every job, earthworks delivered to AS 3798 for geotech sign-off✓Finished levels within ±10 mm of survey — your builder pours off our handover
Excavator performing precision excavation and trenching for site preparation at a construction project in Sydney, NSW.

What’s included

Bulk excavation to 3.5 m depth
Detailed excavation and pier holes
Pool and basement digs
Tight-access digs — machines from 1.0 m wide
Rock breaking, sawing and grinding
Cut and fill to survey level
Trenching for services and drainage
Spoil loading and removal included

How it runs

1Send plans or photosArchitect’s drawings ideal, phone photos fine. We flag rock risk and access issues up front.
2Site visit + probeWe check access widths, services and geology. Fixed quote in 24 hours with rock rate separated.
3Set-out to surveyLaser and GPS set-out against the survey plan before a bucket touches dirt.
4Dig, load, cart dailySpoil leaves the day it’s dug — no month-long dirt mountain out the front.
5Level handoverFinal levels within ±10 mm, compaction certs where specified. Builder pours off our handover.

Cost guidance AUD · INC. GST · FIXED AFTER SITE VISIT

Pool dig (standard access)$6,000 – $12,000
Bulk excavation (per m³)$45 – $90
House cut + pier holes$8,000 – $20,000
Tight-access premium+15 – 30%

Ranges cover the middle 80% of jobs we priced in the last 12 months. Rock, access and tipping distance move the number — the free site visit pins it down.

Recent excavation jobs

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Often booked with

A cut site usually needs fill, walls or clearing on either side of the dig:

04Land FillingClean fill supplied, spread and compacted to spec.See our Land Filling services →08Retaining WallsEngineered walls that hold their ground for decades.See our Retaining Walls services →01Land ClearingBlocks stripped, vegetation mulched, site ready for the slab.See our Land Clearing services →
SERVICE AREAS
Excavation available across Eastern Suburbs, Inner West, Northern Beaches, North Shore, Hills District, South West Sydney, Western Sydney and Sydney CBD — plus every suburb in between →

Excavation FAQs

Yes — it’s half our work. We run 1.0 m-wide machines, conveyor loading and, where it’s genuinely crane-only, we coordinate the lift. Battle-axe blocks, rear yards, terrace backs: all fine.

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