
Excavation & Site Prep
Site cuts, grading, base rock and compaction, with our own machines and operators. This is the half of a concrete job most concrete companies hand to somebody else.
Where we work
Dundee is home. We are based here, which means the answer to "how soon can someone come look at it" is usually the same week — and that the person quoting your job drives past it on the way home.
This is where 5 Rivers is based, which means the person quoting your job drives past it on the way home and there is no version of doing poor work here that does not follow us around. That is the whole argument for hiring the local outfit, and it is worth exactly as much as the work behind it. So: a job in town started as a rotten deck across the front of a house. The timber had gone at the rim and the whole thing was coming out anyway, so demolition and removal was the first line of the estimate rather than somebody else's contract — deck off, railings loaded out, ground taken back to grade. What went in its place was concrete: a new front porch, a broom-finished walkway run out in bays, and steps. One crew, one trip, and no week of waiting between the tear-out and the pour, which is normally where a job like that loses its schedule. The rest of what we do here is ordinary and important — driveways, patios, outbuilding slabs, footings for an addition, and a lot of drainage, because the ground on this side of the valley holds water and a wet crawlspace is a Dundee problem as much as anywhere. Being ten minutes away, we can usually come and look at it in the next day or two.
What we do here

Site cuts, grading, base rock and compaction, with our own machines and operators. This is the half of a concrete job most concrete companies hand to somebody else.

Footings, stem walls and slab-on-grade for houses, additions, shops and outbuildings — dug, formed, poured and finished by one crew, on the framer's schedule.

New driveways, and tear-out-and-replace on the ones that have finally given up. We haul the old one away and rebuild the base, because the base is why it failed.
Proof
Every photograph below was taken on a Dundee job. Select any of them to see it full size.
Tell us what you are looking at and we will come and measure it. No obligation, no pressure, and a written itemised quote rather than a number on the back of a card. We usually respond the same day.
Call (503) 840-8634