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Digslab Excavation
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About Digslab Excavation

Built on dirt

An owner-operated Adelaide earthmoving business that's easy to deal with and serious about the ground. We dig it, we shift it, and we take it away.

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DirectorCharanjit Singh
YardNetley, South Australia
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001 / Our story

One goal,
no drama

Digslab Excavation was started with one goal — to provide reliable, professional and affordable excavation across Adelaide. Hundreds of projects later we've built a reputation on three things: precision, safety, and actually turning up.

Owner-operated since day one

002 / How we deal

Friendly
by default

We're a small crew, so you deal with people, not a switchboard. Ask a dumb question — we've heard it before and we'd rather answer it than fix a problem later. No pressure, no jargon, no invoice you didn't see coming.

  • A real person on the phone
  • Straight answers and a clear price
  • Happy to walk your site before you book
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0Sectors: residential, commercial, civil
003 / Your soil

We have a plan
for your dirt

Most people don't think about where the soil goes until it's sitting on the front lawn. We work it out before the first bucket comes up — how much, what type, where it stockpiles, and which truck takes it where.

See how we do it
004 / Come say hello

Let's talk
about your site

Whether it's one pier hole or a full basement, we'll give you an honest answer about what it takes — even if that answer is that you don't need us.

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The business

Who you're
actually hiring

Digslab Excavation is an owner-operated earthmoving business working out of a yard at Netley, ten minutes from the Adelaide CBD. We started with one goal — reliable, professional and genuinely affordable excavation — and we've stuck to it through hundreds of projects.

What we deal in is straightforward: we take ground out of the way so something can be built on it. Footing trenches for a new home. A site cut on a sloping block. A pool hole shaped to the installer's template. Pier holes bored to an engineer's schedule. A basement dug out beside a house that has to stay standing. And when it's done, the dirt leaves with us.

Our clients are builders, plumbers, pool companies, landscapers and homeowners — from single-machine half-days through to staged civil works. We're comfortable being the only crew on a quiet suburban block, and comfortable slotting into a build program with six other trades waiting on us.

Charanjit Singh

Director

Charanjit runs Digslab hands-on — quoting the jobs, running the machines and answering the phone. If you book with us, you're dealing with the person responsible for the work, not a layer between you and it.

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How we like to work

Turn up when we said. Dig what was drawn. Leave it clean. Invoice what we quoted. It isn't complicated — it's just rarer than it should be.

Our approach

How we take
your soil away

Moving dirt is the easy part. Moving it without wrecking your driveway, blocking your neighbours or blowing the budget on truck movements — that's the part worth planning. Here's how we handle it.

01

Read the ground

Before anything moves we check what we're digging into — clay, sand, fill or rock — and how deep it changes. That decides the machine, the method and how many truck loads are really coming out.

02

Plan the route

Where the machine sits, where the spoil stockpiles, where the truck backs in, and which way it leaves. Getting this right is the difference between a tidy site and a week of complaints.

03

Separate as we go

Clean fill, topsoil, rubble and contaminated material don't go to the same place or cost the same to tip. We separate on site so you're not paying premium disposal on ordinary dirt.

04

Cart & dispose properly

Tipper or truck-and-trailer depending on volume, taken to the right facility and disposed of correctly. Reusable material goes back into the job or on to somewhere that wants it.

What we stand on

Six things we
won't cut corners on

Communication

You'll know when we're coming, what we found, and if anything changes. Clients tell us this is the bit that stands out most.

Precision

Depths, diameters, levels and profiles to the drawings. If the tolerance is tight, we set up for it rather than hoping.

Safety

Services located before we dig, correct battering and shoring, exclusion zones, and machines maintained properly.

Fair pricing

The price we quote is the price we invoice. If conditions genuinely change, you hear about it before the work happens, not after.

Reliability

Your program depends on us finishing when we said. We book windows we can actually keep and we call if anything shifts.

Leaving it clean

Spoil gone, edges tidy, site swept. The next trade should be able to start without cleaning up after us first.

Find us

The yard at
Netley

23 Freda St, Netley SA 5037. Ten minutes from the airport, straight onto the arterials, and close enough to most of Adelaide that you're not paying for a long float. Tap the map for directions.

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Booking & quotes

Tell us about
your job

Send it through and we'll come back with the right machine, realistic hours and a clear price.

Rather just talk?

Ring the yard. If we're in a machine we'll call you straight back.

Phone+61 466 846 263 WhatsAppMessage +61 466 846 263 Bookingsadmin@digslabexcavation.com.au Charanjit — Directorcharanjit@digslabexcavation.com.au General enquiriesdigslabexcavationau@gmail.com Yard23 Freda St, Netley SA 5037 InstagramSee our latest digs

Yard hours

Monday – Saturday9:00am – 6:00pm
SundayClosed
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