Excavation & Hillside Cuts in Jimbaran

Two materials in one cut

The hills above Jimbaran bay sit at the transition: soil mantle on top, Bukit limestone underneath, getting shallower as you climb toward Ungasan. A terrace cut here regularly begins as ordinary machine excavation and ends as breaker work — two different prices in one hole. Contractors who quote a single soil rate on a Jimbaran hillside are writing a variation order in advance; we test-pit at the deepest planned point and put both bands in the quote.

The second constraint is proximity. Jimbaran’s hillside plots are close together, often with older family compounds beside new villas. Our approach is unromantic and effective: benched or battered cut faces rather than heroic verticals, retaining walls designed with the cut instead of bolted on later, smaller breakers or hand splitting near shared walls, and photographs of every adjacent structure before the first bucket. It costs a little time and it has kept seven years of neighbour relationships intact.

Water finishes the picture. A graded terrace above the bay collects and concentrates runoff — sent carelessly downhill it becomes the neighbour’s problem and eventually your legal one. Every Jimbaran scope we run includes interceptor channels and planned discharge, plus weep holes and backdrains behind every wall. Recent work: a 2.8 m terrace cut through soil into rock with a 26 m batu kali wall, and a pool pit hand-finished within two meters of a boundary. Also working down the hill in Denpasar and across the plateau in Pecatu.