Excavation in Switzerland

It depends how close to the bank it came from. Old river-bluff ground with deep sand and heavy oak canopy, and long private driveways that need their own drainage design. Material from the transition zone is usually too organic to use as structural fill, so it becomes haul-off and you buy clean fill to replace it. On Switzerland riverfront that swing is often the largest single line in the excavation price.

Not without seeing the property, and any contractor who does is guessing. In Switzerland the biggest single variable is usually the site itself — old river-bluff ground with deep sand and heavy oak canopy, and long private driveways that need their own drainage design — which changes the scope before anything else does. We'll walk it and give you a real number.

Almost always. Jurisdiction sits with St. Johns County Building Services. County permitting plus Corps and state authorization for river structures, and septic system approval on most parcels. That's our responsibility, not yours: applications, comment responses and inspections are all part of the contract.

Site visits in Switzerland are typically within a week or so. Start dates hinge on St. Johns County Building Services's review timeline, which we'll tell you honestly up front instead of promising a date we'd have to move.

Yes. Switzerland is inside our regular service area from Keystone Heights, and we work throughout St. Johns County — including Fruit Cove, Julington Creek and St. Johns. Call (352) 478-6112 and we'll come look at the property.

Yes, with the right equipment and shoring where the depth requires it. Excavating beside a foundation without accounting for the load it carries is how buildings crack, so this is a case where the slower method is the only method.

Yes — water, power, sewer and septic, at the required depth and separation, bedded and compacted so the ground doesn't settle over the line a year later.