McDermott Excavating

Description of Work: The plumber discovered a broken sewer line in the alley behind my house. City of Dubuque requires a licensed contractor to dig. He recommended a coupld of companies that they typically work with and I chose MCDermott. McDermott came and looked at the site, got locations of all utilities, called me with an estimate (which I accepted) and arranged to perform the work first thing the next morning. When I arrived home from work at 7:15 AM, they were there unloading the backhoe. By 8 AM the crew was cutting up the frozen blacktop and scooping out dirt to a depth of 4'. They tried to locate the sewer pipe and had to keep digging in 2 feet increments until at 12' they finally found the sewer ends. They were seperated by about 1-2 foot. They inserted a metal box into the hole so the sides of the walls would not collapse on the plumber. When the plumber had replaced all of the piping, everyone waited for the city inspector. After approval, they backfilled with some small pea gravel, tamped it down, then some dirt, tamped it down, then some limestone tailings, more tamping. When everything was finished, street repaired, and equipment loaded, the alley was cleaner than before they had arrived.