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North Turramurra is a bush-surrounded sandstone suburb reaching into Ku-ring-gai Chase, rock-and-bushfire country for pools and rebuilds. The regular jobs here are pool digs, basement 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.
North Turramurra sits about 20 kilometres north of the city. It's anchored by Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, Bobbin Head and North Turramurra golf. It's ringed by Turramurra, St Ives and South Turramurra. What's changing: apartments near the stations, and knock-down rebuilds and pools on the big leafy blocks.
Around North Turramurra, near Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, you're mostly on federation and interwar homes on large leafy blocks, with strong heritage character, apartments near the stations. Near Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, the older brick and fibro is renovate-or-rebuild ground. Day to day around Turramurra that's pool digs, basement digs and retaining walls.
North Turramurra ground runs to Hawkesbury sandstone with rock close to the surface on ridge-and-gully ground, over by Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park. Because the North Turramurra rock is shallow near Bobbin Head, the boundary is sawn to protect the neighbour and the middle is broken out. Around St Ives, the clay is reactive, so fill goes in in compacted layers.
North Turramurra is in Ku-ring-gai Council, and the Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park blocks carry bushfire, tree protection and heritage controls, dug to the approved plans. Machines come in to North Turramurra off Cooyong Road or Bobbin Head Road, and the slope is worked in benches with retaining.
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.
North Turramurra and the streets around it, from the older estates to the new blocks.
From the older streets to the newer blocks, North Turramurra and the suburbs around it. If you're anywhere in the North Turramurra area, we can get to you.
See the whole North Shore →It depends on the volume of material, the ground (hawkesbury sandstone with rock close to the surface on ridge), 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.
Almost certainly. Hawkesbury sandstone with rock close to the surface on ridge-and-gully ground. Sandstone is at or near the surface across the North Shore, so pools, basements and garage cuts are rock jobs from the start: sawn at the boundaries, broken in the middle, carted as rock. It’s in the quote from the first site look.
Vibration through sandstone is real and the North Shore blocks are close, which is why boundary edges are sawn rather than broken, hours are kept to council limits, and a dilapidation report on the neighbours is standard before work starts. Monitoring is set up where the engineer requires it.
Yes. Mini machines are craned over the house or walked through it, and rock comes out the same way in bins or by conveyor. Slower than a side-gate job and priced for it, but it’s how most lower North Shore pools get dug.
Yes, and it’s a common harbour-slope job. The rock is sawn at the house footing line and the boundaries and broken out in stages to the engineer’s underpinning and shoring sequence, so the house above stays where it is.
Yes, to the conditions. Most older North Shore streets are conservation areas where work near a listed house or a protected tree comes with conditions on the approval, and vibration near old masonry is watched closely. We dig to what’s approved.
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