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Narellan is a brick-home suburb on Cumberland Plain shale, knock-down, granny-flat and pool work with reactive-clay footings. The regular jobs here are pool digs, site cuts and knock-down rebuild site cuts. 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.
Narellan sits about 58 kilometres south-west of the city. You'll recognise it by Narellan Town Centre, Narellan shops and Camden Valley Way. It's ringed by Narellan Vale, Currans Hill, Harrington Park, Smeaton Grange and Elderslie. What's changing: knock-down rebuilds, granny flats and dual-occupancy, and pools on the estate blocks.
Around Narellan, near Narellan Town Centre, you're mostly on 1970s-90s brick-home estates with knock-down rebuilds and granny flats. Near Narellan Town Centre, knock-down rebuilds are the running theme. The work that comes out of Narellan is pool digs, site cuts and knock-down rebuild site cuts.
Narellan, near Narellan Town Centre, is on Wianamatta shale over reactive clay on the Cumberland Plain. Because Narellan sits flat around Narellan shops, drainage is designed into the cut and the pad is trimmed dead level. Around Currans Hill, the clay is reactive, so fill goes in in compacted layers.
Narellan is in Camden Council, and around Narellan Town Centre there's no flood or bushfire overlay, so it's a standard DA or CDC job. Machines come in to Narellan off Camden Valley Way or the Hume Highway.
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.
Narellan and the streets around it, from the older estates to the new blocks.
From the older streets to the newer blocks, Narellan and the suburbs around it. If you're anywhere in the Narellan 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 cumberland plain), 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 Cumberland Plain. Shale under the clay is ripped rather than broken. The rock in this region is on the escarpment edge, not under the estates.
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.
Yes. Wianamatta shale over reactive clay on the Cumberland Plain. The pool builder’s engineer will usually want the base checked, which is standard, and the machine is sized to the side access.
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