Excavation contractor, Georgina, Sutton and Keswick

Excavation contractor in Georgina, Sutton and Keswick

Cottage-to-home rebuilds on the Keswick and Jackson's Point shore, and new builds and driveways inland toward Baldwin and Pefferlaw. Send the form and an owner calls you back today.

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  • ✓Written price after the visit, locates and permits handled
  • ✓Owner on the machine, one crew, our own equipment
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32 reviews, every one five stars
Same-day callback
An owner calls you back and books the site visit
Owner on the machine
One crew, our own excavators and skid steers, an owner on every job
Locates before every dig
Ontario Dig Authority locate filed before the machine arrives

Excavation in Georgina, Sutton and Keswick

Excavation in Georgina runs on two Town by-laws, one for site alteration and one for entrances, and on York Region's permit wherever the driveway meets a Regional road. On the shore at Keswick and Jackson's Point it is often a cottage lot rebuilt as a year-round home; inland at Baldwin and Pefferlaw, a new build, a driveway or a drainage fix. Our own machines do the digging with an owner there, and the Ontario Dig Authority (formerly Ontario One Call) locate goes in with the permits.

Site prep, foundations and services

Building a house, cottage, shop or addition? You get the lot cleared, the foundation dug to the engineer's drawings, the site services trenched in, and the grade set so water goes where it belongs.

  • ✓Lot clearing, stump and brush removal
  • ✓Foundation and basement excavation to the drawings
  • ✓Site services: water, hydro, gas and drainage trenches, backfilled and compacted
  • ✓Rough grading, imported granular and fill where the ground needs it
  • ✓Final grading and site restoration

Driveways, drainage and land work

New driveway or entrance, a wet yard, a slope that needs terracing, a burst water line to the well? You get the machine, the operator and the paperwork in one call.

  • ✓New driveways, entrances and culverts, entrance permit filed for you
  • ✓Trenching for water lines, well lines and yard hydrants
  • ✓Drainage: swales, French drains and regrading that stop the pooling
  • ✓Retaining wall and shoreline excavation, permits coordinated
  • ✓Demolition excavation and haul-away for full-structure tear-downs

We run our own excavators and skid steers, and we dig with the utilities located first, every time. Soil that leaves the site goes to a proper reuse or disposal site under Ontario's excess-soil rules.

We do not do hydrovac, well drilling, fence post holes, paving or concrete forming. If your job is one of those we will point you to someone who does it. If it needs a machine, an operator who owns it, and the permits handled, we are the right call.

Digging in Georgina, Sutton and Keswick: what changes here

Permits and locates

Georgina's Site Alteration By-law 2026-0060 requires a permit for grading changes that affect drainage, and its minor-works exemption applies only where less than 20 cubic metres of soil comes in and the work sits outside LSRCA regulated areas. Larger imports step up through fee tiers, and more than 2,000 cubic metres takes a formal agreement. A new or modified entrance on a Town road falls under By-law 2023-0019. On a York Region road, the Region issues permanent and temporary construction-access driveway permits and asks for the application about four weeks before the start. We file them.

The ground you are on

Behind Keswick, LSRCA's Maskinonge plan describes a rolling clay plain between about 225 and 275 metres of elevation, cut by valleys that make the relief uneven. Closer to the lake, one valley floor is a swampy, sandy plain covered in organic deposits. Clay holds a trench wall but turns to grease when wet; organics compress under load. On a foundation or driveway we strip the organic layer, bring in granular where the subgrade is soft, and plan where the spoil goes before the machine shows up.

The rule that shapes the job

Most of Georgina drains straight to Lake Simcoe, so the Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority's regulated areas reach a long way inland along the Black, Maskinonge and Pefferlaw rivers. Under Ontario Regulation 41/24, grading, placing or removing material and building a structure in those areas need an LSRCA permit, and Georgina's fill exemption does not apply there. We check the mapping at the site visit and apply to LSRCA alongside the Town.

Communities we cover from here

KeswickSuttonJackson's PointPefferlawUdoraBaldwinBelhavenVirginiaPort BolsterWillow BeachIsland GroveRoches Point

How excavation in Georgina, Sutton and Keswick works, in four steps

1
Tell us what you need
Fill in the form or call. We call back the same business day and book the site visit.
2
An owner walks your property
We look at access, grades, the water table and what is under the surface, and hand you a written price. No dispatcher, no salesperson.
3
Locates and permits
We file the Ontario Dig Authority locate at least five business days before we dig, and any entrance, conservation or building permit the job needs.
4
Dig, grade, restore
The crew shows up when we said. We dig to the plan, backfill and compact, set the grade, and leave the site clean.

Our equipment, on site

Thor Construction excavator on a Kawartha Lakes site
Thor Construction excavator clearing a lot
Thor Construction crew and equipment on a rural site

What our customers say

★★★★★

“As a custom home builder, we love contracting Thor Construction Company for all of our demolition, excavation and septic work. They are easy to work with, have great equipment and know what they are doing. Our clients are always very happy with them.”

Ethan Bender
Custom home builder · Google review
★★★★★

“Hired Thor for complete site services including bringing utilities into my new build and digging for foundation. Once the build was complete they came back and finish landscaped the property and we couldn't be happier. Strongly recommend!”

Robert Bell
New build, site services · Google review
★★★★★

“Thor Construction Company came in and trenched all new water lines for us when our well line burst. They installed new yard hydrants for us as well. We are so grateful they came in and fixed our water line problem promptly and professionally.”

MDL
Rural property, water lines · Google review

Excavation in Georgina, Sutton and Keswick: your questions answered

How much fill can I bring in without a Georgina permit?

Under the Town's site alteration rules, the minor-works exemption needs less than 20 cubic metres of imported soil, about two tandem loads, and no LSRCA regulated area. Grading that changes how water drains takes a permit regardless. We check it before we order material.

My driveway comes off a York Region road. What permit is that?

A York Region driveway entrance permit, permanent for the finished entrance and temporary for construction access. The Region asks for the online application about four weeks ahead, with insurance, site drawings and a traffic management plan. We prepare it.

Is the ground near the lake good for a basement?

It varies lot to lot. LSRCA describes swampy, sandy valley floors with organic deposits near the shore and a rolling clay plain inland. We look at what is under your lot at the site visit and price the stripping, granular and drainage up front.

What excavation work do you do?

Site preparation and foundation digs, lot clearing and grading, trenching and backfill for services and water lines, driveways and entrances, drainage, and the excavation side of demolition and septic jobs.

What do you not do?

Hydrovac, well drilling, fence post holes, paving and concrete forming. We will tell you straight and point you to someone who does.

Do you handle the utility locates?

Yes. Ontario law requires a locate request before any digging. We file it with Ontario Dig Authority (formerly Ontario One Call) at least five business days ahead, and we do not dig until the marks are down.

How do you price excavation?

One written price after the site visit for a defined job. If the job is open-ended, we agree the rate and the estimate up front and you see the hours.

How soon can you start?

Small jobs often inside two weeks in season. Anything with permits waits on the permit, which we manage and keep you posted on.

What happens to the soil you dig out?

Reused on site where the grade needs it, otherwise hauled to a proper reuse or disposal site. Ontario's excess-soil regulation applies once soil leaves a property, and we handle that paperwork.

Other areas and services

Every page has the local permit office, the ground and the rules for that area.

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Thor Construction Company
Bobcaygeon, Ontario · Serving Central Ontario, north of the GTA
  • (705) 208-7121
  • jp@thorconstruction.ca
  • Bobcaygeon, Ontario

Services

Septic installation

Excavation

Landscaping

Hardscaping

Shoreline restoration

Demolition

Service areas

Bobcaygeon and Fenelon Falls

Lindsay and south Kawartha Lakes

Buckhorn and Trent Lakes

Peterborough and the Kawarthas

Haliburton and Minden

Orillia, Severn and Ramara

Barrie and South Simcoe

Muskoka: Gravenhurst, Bracebridge and Huntsville

Cobourg, Port Hope and Northumberland

Durham: Oshawa, Whitby, Pickering, Ajax, Clarington, Uxbridge and Port Perry

York: Markham, Stouffville, Newmarket, Aurora, King and Georgina

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