Franklin is the Three Rivers City, where the Pemigewasset and Winnipesaukee meet to form the Merrimack — a mill town rebuilding itself lot by lot. Our Franklin work is redevelopment excavation: clearing and regrading mill-era parcels, digging foundations where buildings stood a century ago, and camp-to-home projects around Webster Lake.
Dig anywhere in central Franklin and you’re digging through history. Mill-era lots carry old foundations, ash fill, brick rubble, and utility lines that don’t appear on any modern map — so every Franklin redevelopment job starts with Dig Safe 811 and, on anything substantial, our own test pits to learn what the ground actually holds before a price gets promised. It’s honest work with real upside: Franklin’s lots are affordable, and good site prep is what makes an old parcel buildable again. Down along the rivers, terraces of sandy soil dig easily but sit near floodplain lines that need checking early. Webster Lake is the other side of our Franklin book — a classic camp lake where seasonal places convert to year-round, bringing full-foundation digs and utility trenches, with the Shoreland Act’s 250-foot rules applying at the water just as they do on Winnipesaukee.
Buying a Franklin infill lot? Spend a few hundred dollars on test pits before you close, or make the purchase contingent on them. Mill-era fill can be fine to build on or can mean over-excavating and importing structural fill — and knowing which one you own changes what the lot is actually worth.
Foundations, pads, trenches, and grading — test pits first, flat quotes, on schedule.
Gravel driveways built with real base and crown — and washouts fixed for good.
Free site walks, test pits before quotes, flat pricing, and a crew that knows Lakes Region ground.
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.
