DeWald Excavating digs basements and crawl spaces, sets septic systems, makes sewer taps, trenches utilities, and grades lots for builders and homeowners across Allen County. Owner-run since 1981, with our own trucks and iron.
New construction, light commercial, and residential. The same six jobs for forty-five years, which is how you get good at them.
We stake it from the builder's plot plan, strip and stockpile the topsoil, dig to grade with a laser, and leave the foundation crew a square, dry hole with working room around it. Footings in northern Indiana go below the 36-inch frost line, so we dig for it.
New systems and replacements in Allen County and the counties around it. The county permits it, a soil scientist sizes it, we dig it and set it, the county inspects it.
Fort Wayne sewer taps must be made by a City-licensed contractor and inspected before backfill; DeWald is listed by City Utilities as a sewer tap contractor. Utility trenches too, after 811 marks the ground.
Building pads for houses and pole barns, rough and finish grade around a new house, swales to move water where it should go, and the stockpile pushed back out at the end. Before any of that: clearing, stripping, and a construction drive so the concrete trucks can get to the hole.
What a Fort Wayne basement dig looks like in section, and why the hole is bigger than the house. The frost line is real; the rest is typical and varies with the plan.
Builders and homeowners call for different reasons. Both get the owner on the phone.
Foundation plan, grades and the lot. We quote the dig, backfill and rough grade from it.
811 ticket in two working days ahead. We show up with our own iron and trucks.
Call when the walls are cured and waterproofed. We backfill, rough grade, and come back for finish grade.
A failed septic field, a sewer main coming down your road, a pole barn pad, a drainage problem. Call or send the form.
Soil, slope, access for the trucks, where the utilities are. You get a price and the permit steps in plain terms.
County or City permit first, 811 marks, then the dig. The inspector signs off before we cover anything up.
Northwest Fort Wayne, which puts most of Allen County within half an hour and the next counties over within about forty-five minutes. Real drive times, measured on the road.
DeWald Excavating has been digging Fort Wayne basements since January 1981. Kevin DeWald runs it today and quotes the work himself. Accredited by the Better Business Bureau since 2004 with an A+ rating, and listed by Fort Wayne City Utilities as a sewer tap contractor.
The short list. More on the contact page.
For a basement, as soon as the builder has a date; spring fills up. Indiana 811 needs two full working days before any dig, and septic permits take longer than that, so a few weeks of notice is the comfortable answer.
We tell you exactly which ones the job needs and who issues them (Allen County Department of Health for septic, Fort Wayne City Utilities for sewer taps, the building department for the house). Ask when you call and we will walk you through who files what.
Usually. We haul our own equipment on our own trucks, and a look at the site before the quote tells us about access, soft ground, and where the utilities run.
Yes, within reason. Most of Whitley, DeKalb, Noble, Huntington and Wells counties is within about forty-five minutes of the yard. Call about anything farther. See the service area map.
Basement dates, septic questions, a sewer tap before the road crew leaves: it is faster on the phone. Or send the form and we call you back within one business day.
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