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These are the questions we get asked most often, answered properly — including the times the honest answer is that you do not need a contractor. If you would rather just describe the job, the Beaverton Excavation Co. homepage has the fastest route to a real number.
Most excavation calls in this county start as a water problem. These cover what is actually going wrong and what fixes it — see the Beaverton excavation homepage for the service side.
Why the outlet, not the pipe length, decides the price.
A drain moves water somewhere. If there is no somewhere, it fails.
Why mixing gravel into clay makes things worse, not better.
Symptoms are seasonal here — August fine, February surfacing.
What the county expects, what the ground will carry, and why two quotes for the same job differ by thousands. If you would rather skip to scoping, start at the main excavation page.
Separating the free locate call from actual permits.
Frost is not the constraint in western Oregon. Bearing is.
The gap is almost never the hourly rate. It is scope.
Driveways, clearing and stumps — the jobs where the decision made on day one determines whether it holds up. Our Washington County excavation crew handles the whole sequence.
A driveway fails from underneath. Price the base, not the rock.
Clearing is step one of a sequence, not a finished job.
The right method depends entirely on what goes there next.
These guides explain the general case. What it means for your specific property depends on the ground, and that is what the Beaverton excavation homepage is for.
If you already know what the job is, the main service list is the faster route. If you are not sure, describe it and we will work it out.
Everything here runs off the same crew as our excavation work across Washington County.
Every one of these has a general answer and a site-specific answer. The site-specific one decides the cost. Call (458) 272-9359 or send the details.