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Woodbine 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.
Woodbine sits about 52 kilometres south-west of the city. You'll recognise it by Woodbine shops and Woodbine Creek. It's ringed by Leumeah, Minto, Blair Athol, Bow Bowing and Campbelltown. What's changing: knock-down rebuilds, granny flats and dual-occupancy, and pools on the estate blocks.
Most of Woodbine is 1970s-90s brick-home estates with knock-down rebuilds and granny flats, over by Woodbine shops. Near Woodbine shops, duplex and unit sites cluster near the centres. In Woodbine that's pool digs, site cuts and knock-down rebuild site cuts more often than not.
On the Cumberland Plain, Woodbine sits on Wianamatta shale over reactive clay, out by Woodbine shops. The Woodbine blocks near Woodbine Creek are flat, so the fall is built into the pad and the trenches, and the fill goes in compacted. Around Minto, reactive clay, so the fill is layered and compacted.
Around Woodbine shops, Woodbine sits in Campbelltown City Council with no flood or bushfire overlay, a standard DA or CDC job. Into Woodbine the crew comes off the Hume Highway or Campbelltown Road.
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.
Woodbine and the streets around it, from the older estates to the new blocks.
From the older streets to the newer blocks, Woodbine and the suburbs around it. If you're anywhere in the Woodbine 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.
Tell us about the job. We'll look at the site before quoting, so you know what's included before anything starts.
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