Basement retention packages
Engineered excavation support for a basement, so the ground around the dig stays where it is and the structure goes in safely. Commercial and residential.
Job sheet · Melbourne and Victoria wide
Tell us the access.
We will tell you the job.
On an excavation the square metres are the easy part. What sets the price is the gate you have to get through, how deep it goes and where the spoil ends up. Dirtcon start there.
- Operating from
- Smiths Gully, Victoria
- Working across
- Melbourne and Victoria wide
- Smallest machine
- 1.7 tonne, fits a standard side gate
- Largest machine
- 5 tonne excavator
- Reply time
- Inside 24 hours, Dirtcon’s own published promise
- Quote
- Free, no obligation
01 Scope
What Dirtcon are actually for.
On site crushing
Concrete, brick and rock crushed and reused on the site it came from. Less carted away, fewer truck movements, and material you have already paid for stays on the job.
Tight access excavation
Compact machines for the jobs a standard excavator cannot reach. Side of a house, through a carport, behind a fence line.
Bulk excavation
Large volume digs for subdivisions, commercial developments, industrial sites and civil works.
Arena and site preparation
Grading, compaction and drainage for equestrian arenas, sports fields, hardstand, shed pads and level building platforms.
Also on the books. Site cuts, Trenching, Retaining walls, Bored piers, Demolition.
02 Plant
The gate decides the machine.
| Machine | What it is for |
|---|---|
| 5 tonne excavator | The workhorse for site cuts and bulk digs |
| 2.5 tonne excavator | Enough reach for a driveway, small enough for a gate |
| 1.7 tonne excavator | Fits through a standard side gate |
| Posi tracks and skid steers | Levelling, spreading and moving material on site |
| Tippers | Spoil off site without waiting on a third party |
| Crushing attachments | Concrete and rock processed where it sits |
03 Sites
Eight plates from real jobs.
Each plate is described by what is in the frame. No job on this page is presented as a named client project, because none is published as one.
Recent sites
Balwyn NorthCanterburyDiamond CreekDoreenEltham
Taken from Dirtcon’s own posts. Deliberately not matched to the plates above, because those two sets cannot honestly be paired.04 Method
From a photo on your phone to a machine on site.
- 1
You describe the site
Where it is, what the access looks like and roughly what has to come out. A photo from your phone usually says more than a paragraph.
- 2
Jimmy works out the real problem
Access, depth, ground conditions and where the spoil goes. That is what actually sets the job, not the square metres.
- 3
You get a real figure
A free quote with no obligation. Dirtcon publish a reply inside 24 hours of an enquiry.
- 4
Nothing moves until you say so
The dates get set with you, and the machine that turns up is the one the job needs.
How a site is run
- Site specific SWMS
- A safe work method statement written for the job, not a template carried between sites.
- Daily pre starts
- Machines and site checked at the start of every day before anything moves.
- EPA Victoria practice
- Erosion control, sediment management and waste kept to what the site actually needs.
- WorkSafe Victoria and AS or NZS
- Work carried out to the Australian standards that apply to the job.
05 Questions
Answered straight.
What does a job cost?
Dirtcon do not publish prices, and a page that guesses at one is no use to you. Access, depth, ground conditions and where the spoil goes are what set the number. Send a few details and you get a real figure.
Can you get into a tight backyard?
Usually yes. The fleet runs down to a 1.7 tonne excavator, which fits through a standard side gate, and tight access is one of the five things Dirtcon actually specialise in.
Which suburbs do you work in?
Melbourne and Victoria wide, run out of Smiths Gully in the Nillumbik shire. Recent work has been at Balwyn North, Canterbury, Diamond Creek, Doreen and Eltham.
What happens to the material you dig out?
Where it makes sense it does not leave. Concrete, brick and rock get crushed on site and reused, which cuts truck movements and keeps material you have already paid for on the job.
How quickly do you reply?
Dirtcon publish a reply within 24 hours of an enquiry. Start dates depend on what is already booked, so it is worth asking early.
Are you insured and what certificates do you hold?
Ask Jimmy and the current documents get sent through. Nothing about insurance or certification is stated on this page, because a certificate is worth more to you than a claim.
Deliberately left blank
No price, no rating, no review, no certification number and no single years figure appears on this page. Not one of them is published anywhere Dirtcon can be checked, and a concept that invents them would be selling you something you could not verify. Each one is a real decision waiting on Jimmy.
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