Excavation in Frenchtown, MT

Frenchtown keeps growing. West of Missoula, new houses, shops and outbuildings go up every season, and each one starts with a hole in the ground. Getting that part right, on grade and on schedule, sets up everything the concrete crew and framers do after us.

Elevated Dirt Works digs and backfills foundations, installs septic systems and preps building sites for homeowners and general contractors here. The builders we work with tend to mention the same things first: we keep to the schedule and we communicate. We'd like to earn that on your job too.

We're based in Lolo and locally owned, and we're licensed, bonded and insured. There's no charge for an estimate. We come to the site, where we can see the access, the grade and where the dirt is going to go.

Frenchtown is in Missoula County. A build with a septic system needs a permit from the Missoula City-County Health Department first, and before that, a site evaluation. Your builder or designer may already have that underway. If not, we can show you where the test pits fit in the schedule.

Other approvals depend on your parcel and your project, so ask your builder or the county what applies. What we handle on our end: Montana811 locates get called in before we dig, as the law requires, and the site is ready for the next trade when we leave, with spoils hauled or stockpiled where you asked. Building further out toward Huson? Same county, same process.