Every building project in Naples starts with a hole, and the quality of that hole shows up in everything built on top of it. If the bottom is soft, the corners are out of square, or the depth is off by a few inches, the concrete crew and framers end up paying for it in lost time and patchwork.
Our general excavation work covers basements, footings, crawl spaces, shop and steel building pads, garages, ponds, and retaining wall cuts. We request Blue Stakes, strip and stockpile topsoil, dig to the elevations on your plans, and sort spoils as we go. Once your walls are poured and ready, we come back to backfill in compacted lifts so the ground around the new structure stays put.
We know how Naples ground shifts from sticky clay to creek cobble, and we plan each cut around what's under your lot.
We bring the right size excavator and bucket for the footprint, whether it's a tight backyard addition or an open shop pad.
If your house is set too low or the spoils plan won't work, we'll tell you before the first bucket comes out.
Topsoil gets its own pile, spoils stay back from the hole, and we leave the street and haul route clear when we finish.
Naples has grown by roughly 30 percent since 2010, and almost all of that growth needed a hole in the ground before it needed anything else. We dig for new homes in the newer subdivisions, additions on older houses that sit on bigger lots, detached garages, and steel shops on small acreage. Commercial owners call us for building pads and equipment yards too. Each of those jobs has a different footprint, but the standard doesn’t change: correct depth, square layout, and a firm bottom.
If your lot still has brush, old fencing, or a tangle of Russian olive along a ditch, lot clearing should come first. Roots and trash mixed into the spoils make that dirt far less useful as backfill later.
Uintah County requires footings to sit at least 30 inches below grade, and there’s a good reason for it. Winter lows in the Ashley Valley hover around 10°F with colder snaps mixed in, and frost works its way down into the soil during those stretches. A footing set above that line can heave as the ground freezes, then drop again when it thaws in spring.
We shoot elevations off your plans and check depth at every corner, not just one. Basements go much deeper and need extra working room around the walls, so forms and waterproofing can go in without anyone scraping dirt off the sides by hand.
Ground around Naples changes from one parcel to the next. Some lots have fine clay that turns sticky when wet and hard as brick when dry. Closer to the Ashley Creek corridor, it’s common to hit rounded cobble that slows the bucket and leaves rough walls. Land that used to be pasture can hide buried ditches, rock piles, or old concrete from a shed that came down years ago.
We read what comes out of the hole and adjust. Good material gets stockpiled for backfill, and anything that won’t compact, like wet clay chunks or big rock, gets hauled away so it never ends up packed against your foundation.
The light industrial parks north of US-40 and the yards out along SR-45 toward Bonanza see heavy oilfield service traffic every day. A building pad or yard in that setting has to carry serious weight without rutting or settling. That usually means digging out soft native soil, bringing in better material, and compacting it in thin layers until the pad is firm all the way through.
We plan the cut so trucks can still get in and out of a working yard while we’re on site. Your business keeps moving, and so do we.
A little homework up front keeps the dig on schedule. Before we start, we’ll ask you for:
Scheduling utility prep alongside the foundation dig means service trenches get opened while the equipment is already parked on your lot.
Once your walls are poured, cured, and signed off, we return to place backfill in lifts and compact each one. Skipping that step is what leaves a ring of sunken dirt around a house the following spring, and that ring funnels snowmelt straight at the basement wall.
Finish grading then pitches the ground away from the new walls so runoff has a better place to go. Our shop on S Vernal Ave is just a few minutes from Naples, so call (801) 669-0512 when your build hits the calendar and we’ll fit the dig into your timeline.
We walk the lot, go over your plans, look at access, and check soil, slope, and any buried lines near the footprint.
Your written quote covers dig depth, footprint, spoils handling, haul off, and backfill so nothing catches you off guard later.
We call Blue Stakes, stake the corners, dig to plan elevation, and keep the walls clean so forms can go in right away.
After backfill and compaction, we walk the site with you to check the grade, the cleanup, and anything left on your list.
