Excavation & Drainage in Sanur

Everything here is a water question

Dig a meter and a half almost anywhere in Sanur and you meet groundwater — sooner near the beach, sooner again in February. That single fact reorganises every scope. A pool pit becomes a dewatering exercise with a sump running from hour one and shotcrete scheduled tight behind us. A septic system stops being a tank-and-soakaway and becomes a sealed bio unit with a shallow field, because a conventional soakaway underwater doesn’t treat anything — it just relocates it toward wells. Owners deserve to hear this before they buy the cheaper system, not after.

The flip side is that Sanur is easy ground to move: soft, sandy-clay soils that dig fast with no rock and generous access on most streets. Machines get in, trucks turn, work goes quickly. What costs money here is water management, not excavation — which is precisely backwards from Uluwatu, and a useful thing to know when comparing quotes across the island.

A large share of our Sanur work is flood repair at established villas: perimeter French drains intercepting street water, regraded garden falls, storage pits with pumps where gravity has run out of options. Much of the housing stock is decades old, gardens are mature, and renovation trenching gets routed to protect roots and old paving. Nearby we also work Denpasar and up the road toward Ubud — a free diagnosis visit in Sanur usually happens within a day or two.