Excavation quotes hinge on the stuff the customer can't see — soil type, rock, depth, access and where the spoil goes — and a tight-access mini job in a back yard costs more per hour than open earthmoving. Tradewin prices bobcat and excavator hire, trenching, site cut-and-fill, footings, pool digs and spoil removal against your real machine, operator and tip costs, then sends a quote from the cab. Save your regular jobs — trenching per metre, fence post holes, spoil cartage — as TradeWin Recipes™ so the next quote is a couple of taps.
Switchboard enclosure
Circuit breakers
Main switch + RCD
Cabling & consumables
Labour
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Pre-loaded job types with benchmarks — plus the ability to add your own custom jobs.
The same job can vary widely. Tradewin prices against your real costs, so these factors are built in — not guessed.
Trucking spoil off site and dumping it is often the biggest line in the job — tip fees, truck access and any contamination risk vary widely by location.
Clay, sand or rock changes dig rate dramatically; hitting rock means hammering or rock-breaking, which shifts pricing to an hourly or per-cubic-metre basis.
Deep sewer or footing trenches past about 1.5 metres typically need shoring, which adds real labour and material over a shallow reticulation or cable trench.
Tight gates and restricted yards force smaller or mini excavators and slower work — a tight-access job carries a premium over open earthmoving.
Bobcat / Excavator Hire
Machine size, operator experience, and minimum hire periods affect hourly rates.
Concrete Slab Excavation
Green-field slab dig — distinct from slab demolition; depth and access vary cost.
Drainage Trenching
Depth, ag-pipe or pit connections, and reinstatement affect per-metre cost.
Driveway Excavation
Sub-base depth, edge detail, and spoil disposal affect pricing.
Fence Post Hole Drilling
Hole depth, post diameter, rock, and tight access affect per-hole pricing.
Footing Excavation
Depth, soil type, access, and footing layout vary cost.
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Yes. Tradewin supports 36+ excavation job types including Bobcat / Excavator Hire, Bulk Fill / Compaction, Commercial Excavation. You can also add custom job types for work that isn't in the list.
Most tradies price and send a quote in under two minutes once costs are saved. Repeat jobs are faster — apply a TradeWin Recipe and the costs scale to the new job size automatically.
The website quote form works on the free plan and every paid plan. A dedicated inbound number is included with Business and Scale, or available through the separate number add-on on other plans. Either way, a saved Recipe can prepare a priced draft for you to review and send.
Yes. Once you issue an invoice you can push it straight to Xero as a draft — no double data entry.
Yes — machine hire, earthmoving and rock breaking price by the hour, while trenching prices per metre and bulk dig, pool and spoil work price per cubic metre. Each job type uses the right unit and is costed against your real machine, operator and tip rates.
Yes. Tight-access mini excavator work and rock breaking or hammering are separate job types, so the access premium and the harder, slower going are priced in rather than absorbed into a standard hourly rate.
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