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7 Essential Factors to Consider Before Hiring a Land Clearing Company

Whether you’re building a new house, clearing an area for a parking lot, removing trees for farmland or constructing a new office building, you’ll need help from a land clearing company. Site clearing sets the foundation for your project. It can affect how long your project takes, how much it costs and how safe the […]

What Is the Most Efficient Way to Clear Land?

After design, land clearing is the next step in the building process. This stage involves removing obstacles and debris to create a clear, leveled piece of land for construction. From removing trees and vegetation to excavating large quantities of dirt and stone, proper land clearing services provide a safer worksite and a stable building foundation. […]

How Do You Prepare an Excavation Site?

Thorough site preparation is the foundation for smooth residential and commercial projects. Well-executed site preparation for construction sets the rest of your building project’s activities up for success, helping to prevent errors, delays and unexpected expenses. The Importance of Site Preparation Site preparation lays the groundwork for future construction work. All parts of preparation ensure a safe […]

6 Benefits of Hiring a Local Excavation Contractor

Residential excavation is a complex process that requires expert knowledge, time, machinery and an understanding of local legislation and building codes. These and other elements go into preparing, executing and completing successful projects. Professional excavation companies can handle residential projects, delivering efficient and reliable results. What Are the Key Advantages of Working With an Excavation […]

Benefits of Hiring a Local Excavation Contractor

Professional excavation services are essential when laying the groundwork at construction sites and other challenging building, maintenance and repair projects. What does an excavating company do? Depending on the project and industry, an excavating company can perform a range of tasks, such as lot clearing and site preparation, ditch cleaning, grading and sewer and septic […]

Reasons to Hire an Excavation Company

When it comes to choosing a contracting company to perform a task, you need to be sure that you choose the right people. If you choose a contracting team too hastily, you can end up in worse shape than you would prefer, and that decision can lead to a negative impact on your property, finances […]

The Ultimate Guide to Designing a Pond

Adding an attractive water feature to your landscaping can enhance your property’s overall appeal and increase its resale value, but you may not know where to begin designing and creating the pond of your dreams. As an experienced excavating and landscaping company, Colonial Excavating has created this detailed guide to building a pond. Uses for […]

home building process

The Home Building Process: Tips for Constructing Your Home You know that you want to build your next house rather than buy an existing one. But you’re not sure how to start building a home. Should you try to do most of the work on your own, or is it better to hire a reliable […]

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Winter Landscaping Tips

Using landscaping to prepare your foundation for winter With the coming of winter, many homeowners become concerned about the potential for home foundation water damage. Heavy rains and snow melt can put a lot of pressure on the natural drainage of your landscape. And if water doesn’t drain properly, it can collect around your foundation […]