Excavation
All Star Wrecking digs and backfills foundation holes for new houses and additions, cuts trenches and digs ponds. We are based in Monroe and dig across Fairfield County.
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Utility trenching is the dig that carries a line from the street to the building. All Star Wrecking cuts, beds and backfills those trenches across Monroe and Fairfield County. We work on new builds and on replacement runs for water, sewer, electric, gas and conduit. The trench is our part of the job.
The connections belong to the licensed trades and the utility. A licensed plumber ties in the water line, and a licensed electrician lands the service. We open the ground, hold the depth the plan calls for and close it back up. Trenching goes with our excavation work and with the site work on a new house.
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The Connecticut building code puts the frost line at 42 inches. The plumbing side of the same code wants a water service pipe at least 6 inches below the frost line. That puts a water line about four feet down in this part of the state.
A sewer lateral is a different problem. Its depth comes from pitch, because the pipe has to fall from the house to the main. Electric, gas and conduit depths come off the utility's own spec sheet.
The plan, the town and the utility set the number. We dig the trench with excavators, then check the depth before any pipe goes in. Fairfield County ground complicates that, because glacial till hides boulders and ledge near the surface. If ledge turns up at depth, we stop and go over the options with you.
Call Before You Dig is free, and in Connecticut it is the law. The notice goes in at least two full working days before we dig, and no more than 30 days ahead. Then the utilities come out and mark what they own in the ground.
Those marks cover the utility lines only. Anything a property owner buried stays unmarked. That means the feed to a garage or a barn, a pool, an invisible fence or irrigation. Tell us what is back there, and we open that ground by hand until the line is in sight.
A trench 5 feet deep or more needs the sides sloped back or supported before anyone works in it. Any trench 4 feet or deeper gets a ladder. The soil we take out sits at least 2 feet back from the edge. We check the trench before each shift and again after heavy rain.
Connecticut hands the connections to other trades. A licensed plumber makes the water connection, and the water company handles the tap at the main. Sewer work runs through the town or its water pollution control authority. Some towns keep a list of approved drain layers who can tie a lateral in.
A licensed electrician lands the electric service, and the gas company takes the gas line. We dig the trench to the plan, bed the pipe and backfill it. The trade that owns the line makes the connection. Where the town or the utility wants to see the pipe, the trench stays open until it is looked at.
Then the backfill goes in lifts and gets compacted, so the run does not settle over the winter. Topsoil goes back over the line and the grass gets seeded. On a rebuild after a house teardown, the service runs usually start fresh. The lot then goes to the final grade.
Free estimates and site visits across Monroe and the rest of Fairfield County.
(412) 944-9931From the first call to a flat, finished lot, here is how it goes.
Call (412) 944-9931 and tell us what has to come down or get dug out. We ask what is on the lot and how you want it left.
We come out and go over the job with you: the building, the access, where the debris goes. Slope, ledge and wet ground all change how a job gets done.
You get the work, the hauling and the finished grade spelled out in writing. Nothing gets scheduled until you say go.
The demolition permit comes from the town building official, and the town wants the utility disconnects confirmed first. We tell you what your town will ask for and line the job up around it. Call Before You Dig marks the public lines before any digging starts.
The debris is hauled away, the cellar hole is filled to grade and the ground is left flat. We go over the finished site with you before we pull off the job.
Common questions about utility trenching across Monroe and the rest of Fairfield County. If yours is not here, call and ask.
All Star Wrecking digs and backfills foundation holes for new houses and additions, cuts trenches and digs ponds. We are based in Monroe and dig across Fairfield County.
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We do the site work for a new home in Monroe and across Fairfield County. The lot gets cleared, the driveway cut in, the foundation dug and the yard graded.
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We cut new gravel driveways in through wooded and sloped lots, then build the base and crown the surface. Rutted and washed out driveways are rebuilt from the ground up.
Learn MoreThe base is Monroe. We work across Fairfield County and the towns just over the New Haven County line.
The company came out of general construction, from commercial buildings to water main work for cities and towns. Knowing how a building went up shapes how it comes down.
The teardown, the digging, the clearing and the final grade all come from the same company. One number to call while the lot is being worked.
We come look at the site, then put the work and the price in writing. Call (412) 944-9931 to set one up.
Tell us what has to come down, get dug or get cleared, and how you want the lot left. Call (412) 944-9931 or send the form and we will set up a look at the site.
Tell us about the job. We will get right back to you.