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Narraweena is a cottage suburb on sandstone rises above Dee Why, knock-down and pool ground with rock on the slopes. The regular jobs here are basement digs, pool digs 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.
Narraweena sits about 17 kilometres north-east of the city. Locals place it by Narraweena shops, Kitchener Park and Dee Why Lagoon nearby. It's ringed by Dee Why, North Curl Curl, Cromer and Beacon Hill. What's changing: knock-down rebuilds, pools and basement garages cut into the rock, and retaining on the steep blocks.
In Narraweena, near Narraweena shops, it's mostly mid-century and newer homes on steep sandstone blocks, with knock-down rebuilds throughout. Near Narraweena shops, the older brick and fibro is renovate-or-rebuild ground. Day to day around Dee Why that's basement digs, pool digs and retaining walls.
Out toward Narraweena shops, Narraweena sits on Hawkesbury sandstone with rock close to the surface on headland and ridge blocks. Toward Kitchener Park the sandstone starts early, so Narraweena digs are planned around rock from day one and sawn on the lines. Around North Curl Curl, the sandstone is sawn at the boundaries and carted out as rock.
Narraweena falls under Northern Beaches Council, with tree protection controls checked at Narraweena shops before the plans are followed. Machines reach the Narraweena block off South Creek Road or Veterans Parade, and the fall has to be benched and retained, out toward Dee Why.
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.
Narraweena and the streets around it, from the older estates to the new blocks.
From the older streets to the newer blocks, Narraweena and the suburbs around it. If you're anywhere in the Narraweena area, we can get to you.
See the whole Northern Beaches →It depends on the volume of material, the ground (hawkesbury sandstone with rock close to the surface on headland and ridge blocks), 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.
Yes. Hawkesbury sandstone with rock close to the surface on headland and ridge blocks. On the headlands, the plateau and the slopes, sandstone is at or near the surface, so pools, basements and garage cuts are rock jobs: sawn at the boundaries, broken in the middle, carted as rock. It’s in the quote from the site look.
Yes, and it’s the standard slope pool. The shell outline is sawn into the sandstone, the middle is broken out, and the rock is craned or barrowed out where there’s no side access. Slower than sand and priced for it.
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. Small machines go through the house or over the fence by crane, and spoil comes out by conveyor or barrow. Slower than a side-gate job, but it’s how most inner-suburb digs are done.
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