Excavating and Drainage Contractor in Avon, Indiana
Avon grew outward across flat Hendricks County farm ground, and rainfall that once spread slowly over open fields now runs off roofs, drives and patios instead.
Wharff Excavating is a family owned excavation company working from one shop in Lebanon, Indiana, and Avon is inside the area we cover. We put in and repair water lines, sewer and sump lines, drainage systems and culverts, we bore under drives rather than cut them, and we grade lots for homeowners, builders and businesses.
A good share of Avon was cropland inside living memory. The field tile and open ditches that drained that ground were sized for corn and beans, not for cul de sacs, and every roof and slab added since then pushes water toward a low spot that was never asked to carry it. That is the shape of most residential drainage calls that reach our office from western Hendricks County.
Work in Avon runs the same way any of our work runs. The office takes down the details, we settle what the job actually involves, and we come stand on the ground with you before a number goes on paper. A detailed written estimate follows. Once it is accepted we set the schedule and take care of permits, utility locates and inspections, the crew digs, and you hear from us while the work is going rather than after it is finished.
Flat ground and slow draining clay in Hendricks County
Central Indiana sits on heavy glacial till, and Hendricks County is no exception. Clay of that kind sheds water rather than taking it in, so a downspout emptying beside a foundation or a sump discharging a few feet from the wall it just protected tends to come back as a wet basement or a yard that stays soft for days. Getting water genuinely away from the house is usually a matter of grade and pipe, not of pumping harder.
Depth matters here for a second reason. Frost in this part of Indiana reaches down to roughly thirty two inches, so a water service or a discharge line set shallow to save digging is a line that will eventually freeze. We dig to depth and we bed and backfill so the trench does not settle into a scar across the lawn a year later.
Excavation work we do around Avon
The calls that come from Avon lean toward water: getting it off the lot, keeping it out of a basement, and replacing lines that have quit. Grading and culvert work usually rides along with it, because a drain only performs as well as the ground feeding it.
Avon Excavating Questions
Why does my Avon yard hold water after every rain?
Usually because the subsoil is clay and the lot has almost no fall to it. Water sitting on tight ground has two ways out, evaporation or a pipe, and evaporation is slow. The fix is normally a combination of regrading the low area, catching the water in basins and running it to a discharge point that is genuinely lower than the problem.
Can you run a new line under my driveway without breaking it up?
Often, yes. Directional boring pushes a line beneath a drive, a sidewalk or a mature tree and comes up on the far side, which leaves the surface intact. Whether it is the right method depends on depth, what else is buried on that route, and what the line is carrying. We look at that on site and say plainly which approach we would use.
Do you work for builders and contractors as well as homeowners?
Yes. Homeowners, general contractors, builders, businesses and municipalities all hire us, and the mix on a given week runs across all of them. On a builder's site the coordination is different, the excavation is not. We are a licensed Wrecking General Contractor and the family has been running this shop since 1964.
Getting an estimate for work in Avon
If something on your Avon property is holding water, sinking, backing up or waiting on a new line, call the office at (317) 892-0074 or write to [email protected]. Tell us what you are seeing and what you would like the ground to do instead, and we will arrange to come look at it.
Tell Us About the Job
A Customer in Hendricks County
From our Google profile, in their words.
“We hired Wharff Excavating to repair our sewer line, and they did an excellent job. The crew worked hard, treated our property with respect, and completed the repair efficiently. The quality of their work exceeded our expectations, and everything was finished on time. I would recommend Wharff Excavating to anyone needing sewer repair.”
Other Towns We Serve Near Avon
We work across Hendricks County and the counties around it, so these towns are covered as well.