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Dundas Valley is 60s–70s brick veneer on rolling, bush-gully ground, pool and retaining territory. The regular jobs here are pool digs, granny flat and shed pads and retaining walls. 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.
Dundas Valley sits about 22 kilometres north-west of the city. You'll recognise it by Dundas Valley shops, Vimiera Road and Ponds Creek reserve. It's ringed by Dundas, Telopea, Carlingford and Rydalmere. What's changing: pools, granny flats and rebuilds.
Most blocks in Dundas Valley, around Dundas Valley shops, are 1960s–70s brick veneer on rolling blocks. Near Dundas Valley shops, knock-down rebuilds are the running theme. On a Dundas Valley block that usually means pool digs, granny flat and shed pads and retaining walls.
Out toward Dundas Valley shops, Dundas Valley sits on Shale clay on undulating ground with bushland gullies. Where Dundas Valley falls away toward Vimiera Road the block is benched into levels and the retaining is built in, with the fall worked into the cut. Around Telopea, the clay is reactive, so fill goes in in compacted layers.
Dundas Valley is in City of Parramatta, and the Dundas Valley shops blocks carry bushfire controls, dug to the approved plans. Machines come in to Dundas Valley off Quarry Road or Kissing Point Road, and the side access takes a mini excavator.
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.
Dundas Valley and the streets around it, from the older estates to the new blocks.
From the older streets to the newer blocks, Dundas Valley and the suburbs around it. If you're anywhere in the Dundas Valley area, we can get to you.
See the whole Parramatta and Cumberland area →It depends on the volume of material, the ground (shale clay on undulating ground with bushland gullies), 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. Shale clay on undulating ground with bushland gullies. Shale under the clay is ripped rather than broken. Real rock work in this region is along the river and at Prospect, not on the flat streets.
Cumberland is one of the easier councils for it, and the 50s and 60s blocks have the room. The pad is cut through the side access, compacted, and trenched for services at the same time.
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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