Chris Wells Excavation LLC

About Chris Wells Excavation LLC

A driveway comes back crowned and true, the grade pitched so runoff finds the ditch line instead of the doorstep — and the whole approach to a house reads differently for it. That is the shape of the work here: excavation and site work for new homes and additions, septic installation and repair, drainage and dry-basement solutions, demolition of houses, barns and pools, tree and stump removal, retaining walls, and the slower pleasure of decks, patios and stonewalls set to sit still for a long time. Underhill lies in the lap of Mount Mansfield, where the Browns River runs cold under hardwood and the roads off Route 15 heave and soften with each thaw — ground that asks to be read before it is moved. Winter turns the same machines to plowing, opening drives while the mountain's shadow still lies across the valley. What's left behind is quiet and entirely physical: water going where it should, stone sitting where it was meant to, a yard that holds its season.