Excavation & Trenching, Bremerton WA

Opening ground in Bremerton

Cobbles packed in glacial till is the whole story of digging here. The mini excavator handles what shovels can't, and where the work is against a foundation or in a root zone on short service runs on the city grid, shovels handle what the machine shouldn't. It fits a standard gate and works slopes near Manette.

The shipyard boom of the 1940s left Bremerton with early poly on the Kitsap Lake lots on sloped lots above the Narrows. In thin topsoil over compacted till the first sign is low pressure that used to be fine, sometimes a green stripe across a brown August lawn, rarely a puddle, which is why excavation and trenching starts by listening.

Hand tools for tight and plywood ground protection and come on every excavation and trenching trip to Bremerton, along with pumps, because wet clay seams on the Narrows side on sloped lots above the Narrows decides whether a pit is an hour or a morning.

Near Manette we've trenched under gravel drives that had to stay passable; near Kitsap Lake we've hand-dug pits next to foundations where a bucket couldn't go. Access across short service runs on the city grid decides the method, and ground protection goes down either way.

Bremerton ground conditions

City lots in Bremerton are narrow and the gates are narrower, so a lot of our Bremerton excavation is hand work or the mini excavator threading between a house and a fence. We handle the full repair in-house, from locating to excavation to the new line to backfill and restoration, and we answer the phone at 2 a.m.

Groundwater is part of every Kitsap County excavation from November to May, and wet clay seams on the Narrows side under sloped lots above the Narrows holds plenty. Pumps keep the pit workable while we protect the site, and gravel keeps the pipe out of the muck when we open the ground.

How the dig goes

Before we show up near Sheridan Park you should know the sequence. We locates. We protect the site, which on longer runs toward Kitsap Lake and Rocky Point is where gray hardpan a foot down sets the pace for hand tools for tight. We open the ground, and excavation and trenching is done.

Scope for excavation and trenching here is three things: ground (gray hardpan a foot down), lot (longer runs toward Kitsap Lake and Rocky Point), pipe (wartime-era service lines). The gear is the same each trip, hand tools for tight included, and we say which of the three is driving the day before we start near Jackson Park.

We've seen low pressure that used to be fine on sloped lots above the Narrows near Rocky Point and a green stripe across a brown August lawn by Sheridan Park. Both times the line was early poly on the Kitsap Lake lots, the ground was thin topsoil over compacted till, and the fix was excavation and trenching done once.

Around Bremerton

From Sheridan Park to Pacific Avenue and out around Jackson Park and Charleston, excavation and trenching is regular Bremerton work. A few minutes from our base; we schedule longer runs toward Kitsap Lake and Rocky Point so you aren't waiting a whole day.