Excavation means digging or remodeling. Excavation contractors are those professionals who provides excavation services such as site preparation, trenching, grading, digging, drilling and other soil related tasks. They do all this work by operating very heavy equipments such as bulldozers, cranes and many more. Excavation industry focuses mainly on excavating land for construction or to perform any work including additions, alterations and repairs of buildings.
Tasks they perform are:
- Site Preparation - In any construction project, such as residential, the excavation contractor will firstly survey the house determining its yards and boundaries. Then, he'll perform various soil compaction tests to ensure soil firmness. The dig specifications are known to the contractor and then he starts to level and transit the spot of excavation. The foundation contractor takes the charge to pour the footers and stem wall, and afterwards he forward the charge to him.
- Contracting - They are specific in their jobs. They cannot perform whole of your house profiling alone. Therefore, often considered as sub contractors because their job is just one part of your house project. You can hire them for digging a swimming pool but they'll not overtook whole of it as their responsibility. They work under the guidance of general contractors for coordination in work with other workers.
- Moving soil - An excavation contractor build roads, dig ponds and pools, excavate ditches, build earthen dams, basement walkouts and operate trenchers to install flexible pipes underground without creating ditches. On the type of equipment he owns, he can even create terraced drainage on agricultural land. Anything you want to do which involves moving or pulling the soil, job comes under excavation process.
- Heavy Equipment - Excavation equipment is quite expensive to buy and maintain. A small scale contractor will mainly owe a couple of loaders, bulldozers, compactors and trenchers. Most large scale contractors owe large dump trucks to carry away soil. There are few training courses for heavy machinery. Therefore, most contractors hire unskilled operators and provide them on-the-job training.
- An extensive bidder - He must be intelligent and active enough to submit competitive bids and estimates. He must also know the current rate for excavation work in his surrounding area. He should be licensed, skilled and insured. Financial stability is necessary for a contractor as he has to hire lot of workers, needs to pay taxes and have to submit security before handling any operation. He mainly establishes a bookkeeping record and payroll system to pay income taxes quarterly.
Here is all the information you need to hire excavation services and what actually a contractor do. Excavating Contractors at Harris Excavation undertake all kinds of general excavation services efficiently with affordable costs.