Foundation digs, building pads, utility trenches, and finish grading for new builds and additions — dug to spec and on schedule, with test pits before the quote so granite ledge never becomes a change order.
Every build starts and ends with dirt. We dig foundations and frost walls to spec — NH's four-foot frost depth isn't a suggestion — cut and fill sloped lots to grade, trench water, power, and septic lines, and come back for the finish grade that pitches water away from the new foundation. Your builder gets a hole on the day the schedule says, because everyone downstream of the dirt is waiting on it.
This is granite country. We dig test pits at the corners before we price a foundation, so ledge shows up in the plan instead of the invoice. When ledge makes one corner expensive, sometimes shifting the footprint twenty feet saves five figures — and because we found it early, you get to make that call.
Machine-and-operator work runs $110–$200/hour regionally; typical foundation digs land $3,000–$10,000 all-in depending on size, soils, water, and rock. Site walk + test pits = one flat number.
Most run $3,000–$10,000 depending on size, soil, water table, and ledge. Test pits before quoting mean the number you're given is the number you pay.
Directly. We take the foundation plan, confirm elevations and bench marks, and coordinate dig day, backfill, and finish grade around their schedule — one less thing you have to relay.
Frozen ground slows digging and drives cost up; deep winter foundation work rarely makes sense residentially. Better: book in fall, be first on the spring schedule, and let us clear or haul during winter when frozen ground actually helps.
Get the dirt scheduled before the framer is asking where the hole is.
Tell us where the property is and what you’re trying to do. We’ll walk the site, talk it through, and give you a straight, flat quote.
