Randlett is open country, with homes, shops, and barns spread across wide parcels near the Uinta River. That space helps on dig day, but it also means every machine has to be hauled a fair distance to reach you. We treat general excavation in Randlett as a planned trip, with the scope, access route, and spoils plan settled before the trailer rolls.
The work covers basement and crawl space digs, footings, garage and addition cuts, shop and pole building pads, and retaining wall cuts. We stake the footprint, check elevations against your plans, set topsoil aside, and cut clean walls with a firm bottom. Once the foundation walls are ready, we come back to backfill in compacted lifts and shape the ground so water moves away from the building.
We dig across the Uintah Basin and know how clay, cobble, and frost depth change a foundation cut on rural ground.
We bring excavators, loaders, and compaction equipment sized for basements and shop pads, so the cut and backfill are done right.
If a building spot has water trouble or poor soil, we will tell you before we dig instead of after.
Topsoil and spoils go in planned piles, gates stay shut, and we leave the rest of your acreage the way we found it.
Randlett is a long way out on our route, and we are upfront about that. Instead of squeezing your dig between other stops, we set a date, load the right machines, and plan to stay until the work for that phase is done. Before that trip happens, we want to know the footprint, the depth, where spoils can go, and how a truck and trailer will get to the building spot without tearing up a pasture or a soft lane.
If the spot still has brush, old fencing, or piles of junk on it, lot clearing before the dig keeps roots and trash out of the dirt you will want back as backfill.
Uintah County requires footings to sit at least 30 inches below grade. That depth keeps the bottom of the footing below the frost line, so winter freezing doesn’t lift it out of level. Basements go much deeper, and we cut those to the elevations on your plans. Either way, the bottom of the excavation needs to be firm, undisturbed soil. If we find a soft pocket, we dig it out and deal with it before anyone sets a form.
Depth also affects how wide the hole has to be. Deeper cuts need sloped or benched sides so the walls stay put while people work in them, and forms need a couple of feet of working room on the outside. We plan that extra width from the start so the concrete crew isn’t cramped against a dirt wall.
Two digs that look the same on paper can play out very differently on the ground. When we walk your Randlett property, these are the things that shape the quote:
A lot of the digging out here supports buildings that work for a living: equipment shops, hay barns, loafing sheds, and covered storage. Those need a pad set a little higher than the surrounding ground, compacted so heavy machinery doesn’t leave dips in the slab area. Pole buildings need holes at a consistent depth. Steel shops need footings dug square and true. We talk through how the building will be used so the excavation matches the load it has to carry.
On bigger pads, the dig and the grading around the new building really happen as one job. We cut the high side, fill the low side in compacted lifts, and shape the surrounding ground so runoff heads away from the doors instead of toward them.
In Utah, whoever digs makes the Blue Stakes call, so on our jobs that falls to us. The request has to go in at least 3 business days before digging and no more than 14 calendar days ahead, and the ticket expires after 21 days. On a rural property, the marks only cover utility owned lines. A private power feed to a shop or a water line out to a stock tank won’t be painted, so we walk the site with you and flag anything you know about.
Once your foundation walls are poured, cured, and ready, we return to backfill. Fill goes in thin layers, compacted as we go, so the ground beside the building doesn’t settle into a trench that collects water next spring. Then we shape a rough grade that falls away from the walls on every side.
This is also the right time to get water, sewer, and power into the ground. Doing utility prep while our equipment is already on site saves a second trip out to Randlett and a second round of torn up yard. Call (801) 669-0512 to talk through your project.
We walk the building spot with you, check access and soil, and go over your plans, depths, and elevations.
You get a written quote that spells out the dig, spoils handling, hauling, and backfill so nothing is a surprise.
We call Blue Stakes, stake the corners, and cut to plan depth with square walls and a firm, undisturbed bottom.
After backfill and rough grading, we walk the site with you and confirm water drains away from the new walls.
