Excavation contractor, Coboconk, Norland and Kinmount

Excavation contractor in Coboconk, Norland and Kinmount

Site prep, foundations, trenching, driveways and grading from Kirkfield and Victoria Road up to Kinmount. Send the form and an owner calls you back today.

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  • ✓Written price after the visit, locates and permits handled
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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 Coboconk, Norland and Kinmount

An excavation contractor in Coboconk works the edge of two kinds of ground, limestone around Balsam Lake and Shield rock up the Gull River. Lots along Highway 35 deal with the Ministry of Transportation for access, while entrances on City roads follow the Kawartha Lakes entrance by-law, culvert sizing included. North of the lake the moraine till carries boulders, so foundations and service trenches get probed at the site visit before they are priced.

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 Coboconk, Norland and Kinmount: what changes here

Permits and locates

We send the locate request to the Ontario Dig Authority (formerly Ontario One Call) at least five business days before the machine arrives. A new or changed entrance onto a City road takes an Entrance Permit from Kawartha Lakes Public Works through its Permit Central portal, and the contractor adds a Work in Right-of-Way Permit and gives two business days' notice before starting. Highway 35 through Coboconk is a provincial highway, so access or building work near it goes through the Ministry of Transportation's corridor permits. We file whichever applies.

The ground you are on

North of Balsam Lake the Dummer Moraine runs along the edge of the Shield. Kawartha Conservation describes it as rough, hummocky, stony land, a till of coarse limestone and granite boulders in sandy material, with bedrock outcrops in places and limestone often exposed at the surface. A foundation or service trench here can turn up boulders or rock in the first pass, so we probe at the site visit and price the rock work before the job starts.

The rule that shapes the job

The City's entrance by-law, 2017-151, sets the build. A residential entrance gets at least 150 millimetres of Granular A, and where a culvert is needed it runs long enough for a 2:1 slope up from the ditch to an entrance at least 6 metres wide, with 300 millimetres of cover over the pipe. Ditching around it holds 2:1 slopes or flatter. We build to that standard so the City's inspection passes the first time.

Communities we cover from here

CoboconkNorlandKinmountKirkfieldVictoria RoadUphillBurnt RiverRosedaleBalsam LakeShadow LakeSilver LakeHead LakeMitchell Lake

How excavation in Coboconk, Norland and Kinmount 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 Coboconk, Norland and Kinmount: your questions answered

Do I need a permit to fill in the ditch along my frontage?

Yes. Kawartha Lakes counts tiling, covering or filling a roadside ditch to improve a lawn or frontage as an entrance, so it takes an Entrance Permit. We apply and build it to the City standard.

Who handles an entrance on Highway 35?

The Ministry of Transportation, through its highway corridor permits, since Highway 35 is a provincial highway. City roads go to Kawartha Lakes Public Works. We confirm which road your lot fronts at the site visit.

Will you hit rock or boulders?

Often, north of Balsam Lake. The moraine till carries coarse boulders and the limestone sits close to the surface, so we check at the site visit and put the rock work in the written price.

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 Coboconk, Norland and Kinmount

Septic installationin Bobcaygeon and Fenelon Falls→Landscapingin Bobcaygeon→Landscapingin Fenelon Falls→Shoreline restorationon Pigeon Lake→Shoreline restorationon Sturgeon Lake→Shoreline restorationon Balsam and Cameron Lakes→Septic installationin Coboconk, Norland and Kinmount→Landscapingin Coboconk, Norland and Kinmount→Shoreline restorationon Shadow, Mitchell and Head Lake→Demolitionin Bobcaygeon and Fenelon Falls→Demolitionin Coboconk, Norland and Kinmount→Every area we coverMap and full list→

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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

All service areas

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