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What do trench digging services include?

Trenching services involve digging a large hole, usually using a trenching shovel and a trencher to help successfully lay underground wires, pipes, or structural supports. It’s also traditionally done to install or repair public drains, sewer lines, and underground utilities to serve populated areas. Trenching also has plenty of benefits if you’re taking care of your lawn! Whatever you need, Taskers can make your home improvement project possible. Here are the most common things you can expect from trenching services near you:

Straight trenches

If you live in an area with a limited surface to disturb, such as near buildings or roadways, digging straight trenches is the right choice for you. It’s a kind of trench where the sides are parallel, and the base is at a right angle. Having trench boxes or shoring is usually required as protective systems. A six-inch straight trench can also be helpful if you’re trying to control pests in your property, where you can apply a non-repellent pesticide into the soil to achieve a treatment zone.

Sloped trenches     

Sloped trenches have angled sides to prevent cave-ins. Its angle is determined by trench depth, soil type, and the amount of time the trench will remain open. If you’re planning to install large pipes or culverts, this can be the right kind of trench for you. It’s also common to have sloped trenches in new construction sites with a wider path of soil.

Benched trenches

To ensure that your trench or excavation site is entirely safe, you can try benching! Benched trenches are those with sides that have been cut away to create steps. The height of these steps, otherwise known as vertical distances, is determined by the soil type. The less stable your soil is, the shallower your angles should be. It’s best to bench it if your trench needs to be up to 20 feet deep. This is to help stabilize your trench and to make it more secure. For protective systems, shielding or trench boxes are usually used.

Bell-bottom pier hole trenches

For those planning to build a certain structure, make sure to have someone dig a bell-bottom pier hole trench! The base or bottom of the trench is usually wider than the top, giving it a bell-shaped cross-section. This is typically used to install footings to support the foundation of a structure. Since these kinds of trenches have sides sloping inward over the floor of the excavation, more protective systems are usually required to keep them from collapsing. 

Recent Trench Digging tasks in Gold Coast

Moving landscaping gravel, digging small trench

$120

Pimpama QLD, Australia

23rd Sep 2024

Clearing landscaping gravel on the side of my house and relocating it via wheelbarrow to another location in my yard.

Labourers Needed: Trench Digging for Garden Beds

$500

Carrara QLD, Australia

9th Jul 2024

We are looking for 2 reliable and hardworking labourers to help with digging trenches along 3 garden beds. The trenches need to be 10cm deep to plan for new landscaping, two smaller garden beds are mostly just dirt, the larger garden bed has soil that's a mix of dirt and small-med size rocks. You may encounter old weed matting and drainage which needs to be taken out. The two smaller garden beds will have plants and old roots needing to be taken out too. Some roots may be too deep and require stump grinder for you to assess. See photos. You'll be required to shovel loads through the mesh soil sifter into a wheelbarrow and keep the rocks separate for another project. This might be 1-2 days worth of work.

Fantastic advice and very hardworking pleasant guy! Thanks Steven

Dig a trench

$200

Merrimac QLD, Australia

8th Jul 2024

Dig a Trench 300 mm Deep approx 8 metres Type of gardening: Other Size of garden: 50m²-100m² Has green waste bin: Yes

Shovel work / Digging trench

$200

Pimpama QLD, Australia

2nd Mar 2024

I’ve just had an excavator cut about 150 sqm of of my strip. I need someone fit. Good with a shovel to clean up edges around gutter and driveway. Digging a couple of holes and a trench. Ground is fairly wet at the moment, making it easier. I think there’s about 4 hours of work. - Due date: Needs to be done on Sunday, 9 October 2022

Got the job done. Hard worker. Nice bloke. Would definitely recommend.

Dig a trench in front yard

$100

Arundel QLD 4214, Australia

20th Aug 2023

I need a 6m trench dug out (ground is hard) for a long flowerbed. Will most likely need a small digger of some sort. Similar to pic attached but on the other side. We want to plant hedges - Due date: Flexible

Drainage trench digging, concrete barrowing, general labour

$1,000

Austinville QLD 4213, Australia

28th Apr 2022

We are replacing posts under a house & repairing drainage issue, and tidying up landscaping looking for assistance with all, to re dig drainage channels (100mm deep) & gravel fill, assist with barrowing & concrete mixing, landscaping and general labour, moving tree branches experience with general landscaping labour preferable Probably a weeks work at least at $200 / day for 6-7 hrs 9-3 / $30/hr - Due date: Needs to be done on Monday, 2 May 2022

Trench completed & topped with gravel

$140

Upper Coomera, Queensland, Australia

27th Apr 2022

Looking for someone to finish digging a, approx 12m (l) x 0.2m (w) x 0.30m (d) trench. Currently half dug out as pictured. Need it to fall to the far end. Then carry/lay gravel over an agg pipe that will be laid in there. $20/hr or negotiable on a fixed price. Must be strong and fit and able to walk up and down stairs carrying buckets of gravel. Call or msg to arrange an inspection of the job. Plenty of ongoing yard work hours available also for the right person. Located Wimmera Crescent Upper Coomera Thanks, Jay

Trench dug for retaining wall across rear of property

$700

Broadbeach Waters QLD, Australia

28th Nov 2021

Retaining wall was damaged by 2 trees which have now been cut down. Retaining was 600mm high has wood rot so will be removed and replaced. I need a trench dug that I can have a new wall built on. - Due date: Flexible

GARDENING AND LABOURER TO DIG A TRENCH

$25

Surfers Paradise QLD, Australia

31st Jan 2021

I need someone to dig a small trench in my garden if you have a whipper snipper to do some tidying up.