Salt Spring Island, BC
Septic and excavation,built into Salt Spring rock
Charlie's Excavating and Septic Service provides many services on Salt Spring Island. With our extensive fleet of excavators and equipment we provide Commercial and Residential Engineered Septic Systems, Septic field repairs and maintenance, site prep including foundations, driveways, rock walls, land clearing and drainage, to name a few.
Salt Spring Island, BC/Septic + excavation/chxssi@gmail.com
Armour-rock wall and building pad, Salt Spring Island
Most of Salt Spring is thin soil over bedrock. Getting a septic field, a driveway or a foundation into it takes a hammer, a machine that fits the site, and someone who has already dug the road you live on.
What Charlie's does
9 services
Nine things, all of them in the ground
01Septic system installation
- 01Septic system installationNew systems for new builds, from the excavation through to the tank, the field and the final grade.
- 02Septic repairs and replacementFailing fields, broken lines and cracked tanks, dug up and put right. The kind of call that cannot wait a week.
- 03Excavation and site prepFoundations, building pads, grading and backfill for new and existing properties.
- 04Rock breakingA hydraulic breaker for the bedrock that stops everything else. On this island it comes up more often than not.
- 05Retaining and rock wallsArmour rock placed to hold a bank, level a site or turn a slope into somewhere you can build.
- 06Driveways and pathwaysCut in, built up, gravelled and rolled, on ground that gets steep and wet.
- 07Land clearing and forest roadsOpening up a lot, taking out stumps, and putting a road in far enough to get a machine to the site.
- 08Drainage, culverts and utilitiesStorm and sewer mains, manholes, culverts, perimeter drains and service trenching.
- 09Trucking and material haulGravel, rock and fill in, spoil out, and the low-bed to get the machine to your gate.
Before you dig
What's under Salt Spring
Almost every job on this island runs into the same three things. Knowing about them early is what keeps a quote from doubling halfway through.
- Thin soil, hard rock
- Much of the island is a shallow layer of soil sitting on bedrock. A septic field or a foundation that would take a day on flat mainland ground can take a hammer and a week here.
- Every system gets filed
- In BC an onsite septic system has to be planned and installed by an authorized person and filed with Island Health. It is not a job you can have a friend do with a rented machine.
- Access decides the job
- Narrow driveways, standing timber and steep ground decide which machine can reach your site, and that decides the price. Worth looking at before anything gets quoted.
Registered Onsite Wastewater Practitioner, installing and repairing septic systems on Salt Spring
Work on the island
See all the work→Every photo on this site is a real Charlie's job on Salt Spring. No stock, no borrowed work.
01 / Retaining walls
Salt Spring Island
Armour rock stacked to hold the bank, with a level bench cut in above it.
The island doesn't stop in January
Charlie's works through the wet and the snow, on the roads that get plowed last and the sites that get soft first.
Working on Salt Spring for years
Get started
Start with a look at the site
Most jobs here start with a walk around the property. Get in touch and we can find a time, or send the details and get a reply.