How to Find the Right Excavation Service Provider

Do you have an incoming construction or installation project? At this time, you should be searching for a excavation/digging contractor. Here are a few tips to help you find one:

Assess Your Project

What are you excavating for? Are you digging for a building construction project or for a utility installation project? Are you installing underground utilities, swimming pool, fallout shelter, irrigation system or what? Your choice of excavation method will depend on your project proposal.

Huge construction projects will require the use of heavy equipment like backhoes and crane loaders. But they can also be accompanied by suction excavators or any non-destructive excavation equipment. For small projects, it is not advisable to use heavy equipment and the option would be the use of suction excavator, either truck mounted or trailer mounted.

Assess Your Proposed Excavation Site

Moreover, your choice of excavation method will depend on the location itself. For instance, backhoes, crane loaders and other large machineries are not allowed in pristine environments. Contractors will need to consider manual digging, mechanical drilling or non-destructive excavation.

At times, workers are not allowed to operate large machineries and mechanical drills near schools, hospitals, homes for the aged and other establishments where excessive noise and vibration can cause great concern or noise pollution. Perhaps the workers should use manual digging or operate the suction excavator equipment.

If there are underground utilities in your proposed site, it is not advisable to use conventional digging methods. They damage or tear buried facilities apart and cause fire hazards, electrocution, explosion and pollution. The secondary effects are work delay or stoppage and injuries and fatalities. Mechanical drilling and manual digging are not even recommended. The recommended method would be non-destructive excavation, especially air or water vacuum excavation.

If you are having a swimming pool installed in your backyard, operating a small crane loader would be good for the task. But if you don’t want damages to your landscape, the suction excavator should be the preferred digging equipment.

Look For Excavation Contractors

Look for excavation contractors who can provide the most efficient service for your project. If you don’t know how to begin your search, there are certain venues where you can start:

• Internet – Many civil works contractors who offer digging/excavation services could be online. Key in certain keywords, ‘digging contractors’, ‘trench digging contractors’, or ‘non-destructive excavation’. Check if they offer the kind of digging service you need. Many contractors today offer both traditional and non-destructive digging services.
• Classified ad – Major broadsheets and magazines have listing of various civil construction services.
• Your local business or commerce board – Your local business bureau has a list of all digging contractors in your town or city. They are registered and licensed to service you.
• Referrals – Perhaps your neighbour knows of a non-destructive excavation contractor. They can help recommend you to them.

Keep a list of contractors that you would want to hire. Present your project proposal and show to them your proposed site. What methods can they recommend? How are they going to accomplish your project? Get their say on your proposal.

Perhaps they have other recommendations and solutions to how your project can be done and completed. Listen to them. They could have something better.

May these tips help you find the best excavation contractor for your project! Whether your method would be conventional or non-destructive excavation, it pays to hire the right professional to provide you the best service.

Yunz Contracting is a level 1 ASP non-destructive excavation provider. Please contact us today for professional and efficient digging service. Please visit our website too.