New Home Foundation Dig in Plainfield

Scope of Work

• Site survey, utility marking, tree protection
• Full basement excavation to 9-foot depth
• Footing trench cutout to engineer specs
• Backfill prep and crushed-stone base

Challenges

A pair of complications threatened the pace. Groundwater sat close to the surface across the rear third of the parcel, and a buried line of fieldstone left from an 1800s foundation cut straight through the planned dig. We shifted the excavation layout to keep the basement slab clear of the seasonal high-water mark, then pulled the old stone out in a single afternoon and never lost a day off the framing schedule.

Outcome

By the third day the builder was already setting walls. The final inspection passed clean with nothing on the punch list, and the homeowner held their certificate of occupancy roughly a month ahead of the date first promised.