Excavation & Trenching, Enetai WA

Opening ground in Enetai

Flat plateau lots on Perry Avenue with seeps on the Enetai Beach Road slopes underneath is a machine job until the last foot around copper under Pine Road driveways, which is a hand job. We do both on the same Enetai visit, and we don't leave an open hole for someone else to finish.

Around Pine Road the typical excavation and trenching call is a seep on the bluff; around Illahee State Park it's water at a retaining wall below the house. Different symptoms, the same galvanized on a few waterfront cottages and hardpan on the Perry Avenue plateau underneath.

Digging in Enetai means the glacier's leftovers: hardpan on the Perry Avenue plateau. For excavation and trenching the machine handles what shovels can't, and shovels handle what the machine shouldn't touch, which on sloped lots on Trenton Avenue is anything in a root zone or against a foundation near Pine Road.

Excavation for electricians, waterproofing contractors and builders is regular Enetai work. We bring the machine, pumps and plywood, open what's needed through seeps on the Enetai Beach Road slopes, and put sloped lots on Trenton Avenue back: grade, rake, seed, gravel, bark, pavers.

Enetai ground conditions

Steep bluff lots with erosion concerns, and flat plateau lots with hardpan. It was built out mostly in the 1950s through the 1970s, which means copper and early polyethylene service lines on lots that are either flat and conventional up on the plateau around Perry Avenue and Pine Road, or steep and sloped down toward the water along Enetai Beach Road and Trenton Avenue.

Spoils on tarps or plywood, never on the lawn of conventional East Bremerton lots. Tracks on protection over hardpan on the Perry Avenue plateau. Trench walls watched. Small things that add up to a Enetai yard near Pine Road that looks like itself after excavation and trenching.

How the dig goes

The order is fixed: locates, backfill in lifts, open the ground. In Enetai the variables are bluff clay above Port Orchard Bay and mid-century copper at fittings under waterfront on Enetai Beach Road, and we've handled both near Sheridan Park enough to give an honest window for excavation and trenching.

On the truck for Enetai: hand tools for tight, bedding gravel, pumps, the mini excavator. Whether excavation and trenching is a morning or a day on waterfront on Enetai Beach Road comes down to bluff clay above Port Orchard Bay and whether the line is early poly on 1970s split-levels.

Sloped lots on Trenton Avenue near Pine Road, galvanized on a few waterfront cottages below, hardpan on the Perry Avenue plateau around it: that's the Enetai version of excavation and trenching, and a seep on the bluff is the usual first clue.

Around Enetai

Waterfront on Enetai Beach Road near Sheridan Park or Enetai Beach Road, bluff clay above Port Orchard Bay or not, excavation and trenching gets the same crew and the same equipment. A few minutes away in East Bremerton, day or night.