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Catherine Field is a growth-release estate on Cumberland Plain shale, bulk-earthworks, detention basins and new-home site-cuts. The regular jobs here are bulk earthworks, site cuts and detention basin. Services located first, sites left level and clean.
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From a knock-down rebuild to a new estate pad, each service has its own page with the detail.
Catherine Field sits about 50 kilometres south-west of the city. The markers are Catherine Field estates and St Gregory’s College. It's ringed by Oran Park, Gregory Hills, Leppington, Bringelly and Rossmore. What's changing: estate subdivision, bulk earthworks, detention basins and civil, and new-home site-cuts and pools.
Most of Catherine Field is new-release estate homes on small lots, with ongoing land subdivision, over by Catherine Field estates. Near Catherine Field estates, duplex and unit sites cluster near the centres. In Catherine Field that's bulk earthworks, site cuts and detention basin more often than not.
On the growth-release land, Catherine Field ground runs to Wianamatta shale over reactive clay, near Catherine Field estates. On the flat Catherine Field blocks around St Gregory’s College, the fall has to be cut into the pad and the trench because the ground gives none of its own. Around Gregory Hills, reactive clay, so the fill is layered and compacted.
Catherine Field falls under Camden Council, no overlay on the Catherine Field estates blocks, so cut and fill is standard DA or CDC work. Machines reach the Catherine Field block off Camden Bypass or the Northern Road, out toward Oran Park.
Every job follows the same sequence, whether it's a single trench or a full site cut.
A trench can be a day, a basement can be weeks. Dates come with the quote, not after.
Catherine Field and the streets around it, from the older estates to the new blocks.
From the older streets to the newer blocks, Catherine Field and the suburbs around it. If you're anywhere in the Catherine Field area, we can get to you.
See the whole Macarthur and Camden area →It depends on the volume of material, the ground (wianamatta shale over reactive clay on the growth), access for the machine and how far spoil has to be carted. Every job gets a written quote after a site look, with the dig, cartage and cleanup spelled out, so you know what’s included before anything starts.
Usually, if the excavation is part of a build. Cut and fill beyond set limits, work near boundaries and anything on a lot with a flood, bushfire or heritage overlay needs approval as part of the DA or CDC. We work to the approved plans; check with your certifier before the dig is booked.
A trench, pool dig or single pad is a day or two; a knock-down site cut or a basement runs longer and depends on volume, ground and weather. Dates come with the quote, not after.
Rarely. Wianamatta shale over reactive clay on the growth-release land. Shale under the clay is ripped rather than broken. The rock in this region is on the escarpment edge, not under the estates.
Yes, and it’s the most common Macarthur job. Topsoil stripped, pad cut and compacted to the precinct spec, trenches for services, and spoil carted or balanced on site. Bulk earthworks on the release stages too.
Reactive clay. It swells in wet winters and shrinks in dry summers, and anything poured on loose or uncompacted fill moves with it. A pad cut and filled in compacted layers to the engineer’s spec is what stops the new slab doing the same thing.
Yes. The old house down, slab and footings out, the block stripped and the new pad cut and compacted, as one run if you want the demolition handled too.
Yes. One house down, the block stripped, and two pads cut and compacted to the engineer’s spec, with the basement dug if the design has one.
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