Excavation & Earthworks in Canggu

Digging in Canggu: soft ground, tight lanes, wet feet

Canggu’s building boom sits on old rice terraces — which means three things for earthworks. First, paddy clay: soft, sticky, holds a vertical cut nicely but turns to glue on tracks and boots. Second, a high water table: from Berawa to Batu Bolong, dig two meters and you’ll usually meet water, so foundation digs and pool pits here run pumps as standard. Third, access: half the plots hide behind gangs where a standard excavator simply doesn’t fit — our minis and shuttle logistics were basically trained on this neighbourhood.

Typical Canggu jobs for us: strip footings for new villas between Padang Linjong and Nelayan, pool retrofits behind finished houses (the crane stays home, the mini walks in), French drain systems for gardens that flood every December, and septic upgrades for villas whose rental occupancy outgrew their tanks years ago. Spoil goes out through agreed truck windows — the banjar knows our plates, and the gang paving gets photographed before and repaired after.

Planning a build here? Read what paddy clay means for your foundation, then send your pin. We’re nearby — often literally on the next street — so site visits in Canggu typically happen within 24 hours. Also working in neighbouring Pererenan and the new frontier at Seseh.