Landscape projects can be fairly simple additions or they can require more intensive preparation, such as leveling your yard. Before starting on a number of projects, you may need the help of excavation contractors to ensure your landscape project is successful. Here are some landscape projects where you may need an excavation contractor to prepare the land on your Bedford and Montrose, NY, area property:
Adding a Septic System
Before you add a septic system to your property, you’ll want to make sure the land is level. This will ensure proper placement of the septic tank in the ground. Your septic professional may not handle the excavation portion of the project which is where an excavation contractor can help. On the other hand, you may find a landscape contractor that offers both septic tank installation and excavation services to level your land. This type of all-in-one service provider will make the project easier by avoiding any scheduling issues and enable you to only have to deal with one company for both tasks.
Performing Drainage Projects
If you have uneven land with hills and dips in it, you may benefit from a leveling of your yard by excavation contractors. The excavation experts will level the land so water doesn’t flow down the sloped areas and potentially cause damage to your home’s foundation or flooding of your yard. Also, leveling the yard can help prepare your property for the installation of a drainage system. If you are having a dry well, French drain, swale, or other drainage system built on your property, the area of land may have to be leveled before these drainage solutions are installed. An excavation contractor can level out the land so it’s ready for drainage system installation.
Adding Masonry Features
If you enlisted the help of a landscape contractor to build a new paver patio for you or add a paver walkway to your property, you may need the assistance of an excavation contractor, too. Not all land is perfectly flat and if your property has hills and slopes to it, you may need an excavation contractor to help you out with this issue. By having the land leveled out prior to your landscape contractor building the pool patio or front entrance walkway, the masonry construction will be easier to complete. Also, by having these structures built on a level piece of ground, the pavers will lie better and create a more lovely finished product.
Retaining Wall Assistance
In addition to the masonry structures mentioned above, you might be having a retaining wall built on your property. Perhaps you have a large hill in your backyard that’s been leading to water flow headed down towards your home’s foundation. You want to have a retaining wall built to prevent soil erosion and also stop some of the flooding conditions from persisting. If you hire an excavation contractor to level out your property around where the retaining wall will go, you’ll minimize the flooding issues and make it easier for a landscape contractor to build a level retaining wall on the property.
