Earthmoving in Forrest

Forrest has no single housing type. ABS QuickStats for the 2021 Census recorded 36.5% of occupied dwellings as separate houses, 16.9% as semi-detached homes or townhouses and 46.6% as flats or apartments.

• On a house block, the work is often levelling a backyard or digging footings.
• Townhouse courtyards are small and walled, so a compact machine and careful spoil removal matter.
• Apartment grounds need the owners corporation on board and a plan for shared access.

Tell us which of these describes your property when you call, and send photos of the route from the street. That is usually enough to know which machine to bring.

Digging close to a large tree can cut its roots. The ACT Government’s tree protection laws give protected status to a privately owned tree that meets any one of three measures: a height of 8 metres or more, a canopy 8 metres or more wide, or a trunk girth of 1 metre or more taken 1.4 metres up from natural ground. Each one comes with a tree protection zone, and the government must give permission before any work that could harm it.

Check whether a tree on or next to your block is protected before we schedule the machine. Heritage rules in the precinct can also cover changes to ground levels.

Earthmoving in Forrest is not only on house blocks. In a walled townhouse courtyard, there may be no way in for a machine at all, so some soil has to be dug and barrowed out by hand. On apartment grounds, residents still need to use paths and parking, so the work area is fenced off and spoil is loaded at the street.

Our excavation services page explains the full range of earthwork. For a soggy yard or water running towards the house, drainage excavation is the place to start. Open ground that needs bobcat grading is covered on our bobcat page.