Excavation contractor, Keene and Otonabee-South Monaghan

Excavation contractor in Keene and Otonabee-South Monaghan

Site prep, foundation digs, trenching, driveways and grading from Keene and Lang to Bailieboro and the Rice Lake shore. 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 Keene and Otonabee-South Monaghan

An excavation contractor in Keene and Otonabee-South Monaghan digs between long drumlins and low river flats, with the Otonabee and Indian Rivers cutting through. A new house here gets no building permit until Public Works approves the entrance, and that entrance can need Otonabee Conservation's sign-off on its location. Near Lang the drift is thin and bedrock shows at the surface.

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 Keene and Otonabee-South Monaghan: what changes here

Permits and locates

Locate requests go to the Ontario Dig Authority (formerly Ontario One Call), and nothing is dug until the marks are down. Any new driveway or entrance in OSM takes a township entrance permit, which may also need an Otonabee Conservation permit or its approval of the location, and the building permit for a new dwelling waits until the Director of Public Works approves it. County road entrances go through Peterborough County's online permit, and Highways 7 and 28 belong to the Ministry of Transportation.

The ground you are on

East of the Otonabee River, the county soil survey describes long, narrow drumlins aligned northeast to southwest, separated by spillway channels holding alluvium or organic deposits, or scoured to bedrock. The Ontario Geological Survey notes thin drift and exposed bedrock near Lang. So one lot can hold deep till on the drumlin and soft, wet ground in the channel beside it. We test both before we price.

The rule that shapes the job

Flood-prone hamlet land. The County Official Plan flags part of Stewart Hall, west of Wallace Point Road, as possibly susceptible to flooding without detailed floodplain mapping, and site-specific mapping can be required before development. The Township's plan also steers building away from hazard land along the Otonabee and Indian Rivers. We check both before a foundation is laid out.

Communities we cover from here

KeeneBailieboroBensfortAssumptionIndian RiverLangSouth MonaghanStewart HallVilliersColdspringsRice LakeOtonabee River

How excavation in Keene and Otonabee-South Monaghan 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 Keene and Otonabee-South Monaghan: your questions answered

Why is my building permit waiting on the driveway?

In OSM, the building permit for a new dwelling is not issued until the Director of Public Works has approved the entrance permit. We file the entrance first so it does not hold up the house.

Who handles an entrance on Highway 7?

The Ministry of Transportation, since Highways 7 and 28 in OSM are provincial. Township roads go to OSM Public Works and County roads to Peterborough County.

Can you dig on the river flats?

Yes, with the conservation side settled first. Otonabee Conservation regulates floodplains plus 15 metres and wetlands plus 30 metres, and its permit comes before grading or fill there.

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.

Excavation in other towns

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Other work near Keene and Otonabee-South Monaghan

Septic installationin Peterborough→Landscapingin Peterborough→Shoreline restorationon Buckhorn and Chemong Lakes→Septic installationin Lakefield, Bridgenorth and Ennismore→Landscapingin Lakefield, Bridgenorth and Ennismore→Shoreline restorationon Lovesick and Katchewanooka Lake→Septic installationin Millbrook and Cavan Monaghan→Landscapingin Millbrook and Cavan Monaghan→Septic installationin Apsley and North Kawartha→Landscapingin Apsley and North Kawartha→Shoreline restorationon Stony and Clear Lake→Septic installationin Warsaw and Douro-Dummer→Landscapingin Warsaw and Douro-Dummer→Septic installationin Keene and Otonabee-South Monaghan→Landscapingin Keene and Otonabee-South Monaghan→Septic installationin Norwood and Havelock→Landscapingin Norwood and Havelock→Demolitionin Peterborough→Demolitionin Lakefield, Bridgenorth and Ennismore→Demolitionin Millbrook and Cavan Monaghan→Demolitionin Apsley and North Kawartha→Demolitionin Warsaw and Douro-Dummer→Demolitionin Norwood and Havelock→Demolitionin Keene and Otonabee-South Monaghan→Every area we coverMap and full list→

Ready to break ground, Keene and Otonabee-South Monaghan?

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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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