A failed system
We dig and restore.
Your licensed installer owns the system. We open the ground and put the yard back.
Septic, sewer & water · DC · Maryland · Virginia
Septic, sewer, and well work, coordinated from perc to final grade.
We dig for your licensed installer, run the lines, and restore the site. We help land buyers understand the septic and water question before they build.
Sound familiar?
The problem, in plain sight.
Septic and water decide whether you can build, where the house can sit, and how big it can be. The expensive surprises are in the ground.
Straight about the rules: septic systems are designed by licensed professionals, approved by the health department, and installed by licensed installers. DigRight is the excavation and site partner. We do not install septic systems. If that ever changes, this sentence changes first, with a license number.
- Land with no public sewer, and a house still to place
- A failed system that has to come out and a yard that has to be put back
- A public sewer or water connection that needs a lateral
- A well line from the well to the house
- An installer who needs an excavation partner
Why it happens
The septic area shapes the rest of the lot.
The drainfield and the reserve area are not spare lawn. Driving on them, or siting the house and the drive through them, is how a lot gets expensive. We plan the clearing and the driveway around them.
A Land Assessment will not perc the soil. It will tell you whether a perc is the next step, and what else has to be true before a house is designed.
How we fix it
Assess. Plan. Execute.
Assess
Which of the three paths this is, what’s already approved, and who holds the installer license.
Plan
Where we dig, what we don’t drive on, and a price for the excavation and the restoration.
Execute
Open the ground for the installer, backfill when they say, and leave final grade that sheds water.
What moves the price
We’ll price the property, not a guess.
The price is in writing after we’ve seen the property.
- Which path — new lot, replacement, or a public connection
- Access and how wet the site is
- How much of the yard has to be restored
- Rock
- Whether a designer and an installer are already hired
Where
Home market first.
Small excavation and property work is concentrated around our home market. Larger site-development and build-ready projects are considered throughout DC, Maryland and Northern Virginia.
Everyday work
The home market, and nearby.
Washington County, Maryland, including Hagerstown. Frederick County, Maryland. Loudoun County, Virginia. The West Virginia Eastern Panhandle: Berkeley, Jefferson, and Morgan counties, plus nearby markets.
Larger projects
DC, Maryland, and Northern Virginia.
Site development and build-ready lots, considered throughout Washington, DC, Maryland, and Northern Virginia.
Not sure which this is? Call (202) 345-5795.
Questions
Before you send photos.
Will my land perc?
We can’t tell you that from a walk. A perc or a soil evaluation is a separate test, by the person the county requires, in the season the county allows. We can tell you whether you should spend money on that test.
When is perc season?
It varies by county and by the weather rules that year. We will not print a month here until it’s confirmed county by county.
Can you connect me to public sewer?
We can excavate the lateral and coordinate with the utility and your plumber. The connection itself is theirs. Availability of sewer is a county question, not a digging question.
I’m an installer. Can you be the excavation?
Yes. Tell us the county, the permit, and when the hole needs to be open.
What happens next