“Working in the trenches” is a euphemism often used in our language for a tough situation – either in a positive connotation of putting in the work to get through it, or the glass-half-empty, fatalistic viewpoint of how [...]
Finding a considerable amount of rock on a construction site is no one’s idea of a great time. It’s made more problematic when that discovery is made after the excavation process or the build has already begun. The [...]
A couple of months ago, this blog touched on tips for installing a gravel driveway. As professional excavation services can be a great asset to that specific process, they really also set the groundwork – pun intended – [...]
Stopping drainage problems before you have them is vastly preferable to trying to fix them after the fact, as dealing with water damage is nobody’s idea of a good time. Here are a handful of tactics homeowners can [...]
In many cases, before any project that requires excavation, first you’ll need demolition. We’ve written before here about how these two processes complement each other. If this is the case for your project, here are a few things [...]
Water — similar to its fellow elements, earth, fire, air and space — is both critical to our survival and potentially deadly if located in the wrong space or otherwise beyond human control. While that is a bit [...]
This time of year in the Ohio Valley, it’s a fool’s errand trying to predict tomorrow’s weather with any degree of certainty, much less that of next week. But, one way or another, before long, it figures to [...]
The very term “demolition” could bring many different images or ideas to one’s mind. Generally speaking, the negative or more wild angles may have come from unsafe or amateur sources, as opposed to the professional service you might [...]
It’s been a common theme on this blog that excavation – done properly and professionally – is more than what it may seem, which is to say digging a hole, or worse, playing in the dirt. In order [...]
The importance of a solid foundation to any structure is well-known, dating back as far as the illustration in the Gospel of Matthew about building a house on the rock instead of sand. But what does that mean [...]