Northamptonshire · Midlands · UK
Vacuum Excavation & Safe Digging Specialists
Precision Below Ground
Reducing utility strikes across Northamptonshire, the Midlands and throughout the UK
D&J Excavations provides professional vacuum excavation, potholing, trial holes and utility exposure services for contractors, developers and infrastructure projects. Our non-destructive digging techniques help locate and expose buried services safely, reducing risk, protecting assets and keeping projects moving.
About D&J Excavations
Built on experience
Backed by years of hands-on experience across the utility, infrastructure and civil engineering sectors, D&J Excavations provides professional vacuum excavation for contractors, developers and network operators throughout Northamptonshire and the Midlands. We know what good looks like on a live site, and we work to that standard every time.
When you work with us, you deal directly with the people doing the work - not an account manager or a call centre. You get clear communication, honest advice on the right approach, and scheduling that flexes around your programme rather than ours.
Our reputation is built on the quality of the dig: precise excavation around buried services, a strong safety record, tidy reinstatement and genuine personal accountability from the first call to the moment we leave site. Reliable work, done properly - that's what keeps contractors coming back.
Our services
What we help you get done
Everything below is aimed at the same result: knowing exactly what's underground and exposing it without damage, so your project stays safe and on schedule.
Vacuum Excavation
Our core service and a safe alternative to mechanical digging. We excavate accurately around buried services, cutting the risk of costly strikes and the delays that follow.
Learn moreTrial Holes & Potholing
Proving what's underground before the main works start. Fast, tidy trial holes and potholing give you confirmed positions and depths, so there are no surprises on site.
Learn moreUtility Exposure
Safely exposing gas, electric, water, telecoms and fibre for inspection, repair or connection. We dig right up to the asset without putting it at risk.
Learn moreUtility Verification
Confirming the exact location and depth of buried assets so your design and dig teams can work from evidence, not assumption - supporting PAS 128 surveys.
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Why choose us
Built around what actually matters on site
Reduced risk of service strikes
Non-destructive digging removes the mechanical risk to buried apparatus - protecting your people, your budget and your safety record, and avoiding the fallout of a RIDDOR-reportable strike.
Programme certainty
Proving services early keeps the job moving. It's quicker than hand-digging, causes less disruption and heads off the delays that come with an unexpected strike.
Safe-digging compliance
Works follow HSG47 safe-digging practice and support PAS 128 utility verification, so your permit-to-dig and client assurance boxes are ticked.
Lower reinstatement costs
A smaller, more precise excavation footprint means less spoil to handle and cheaper reinstatement under NRSWA.
Direct contact with the operator
You deal with the person doing the work - no call centres, no subcontracting chain, and scheduling that flexes around your programme.
Industries we support
Who we work with
Serving utility contractors, civils teams, developers and network operators across Northamptonshire and the wider Midlands region.
Utilities
Gas, electric, water and telecoms works across the network.
Civil engineering
Trial holes, enabling works and site clearance.
Highways
Carriageway and verge works with minimal disruption.
Rail
Trackside excavation with controlled risk.
Construction
Groundworks and service exposure for build programmes.
House builders
Plot services, footings and enabling works.
Fibre & telecoms
Duct and cable exposure for network rollout.
Water infrastructure
Mains, chambers and drainage projects.
Get in touch
Request a quote
Send us the scope, location and dates and we'll come back with a clear answer on availability and price. You'll speak directly to the operator.
Based in Northamptonshire, covering the Midlands and projects UK-wide.
Vacuum Excavation Contractors in Northamptonshire and Across the Midlands
D&J Excavations provides specialist vacuum excavation and suction excavation services throughout Northamptonshire, the East Midlands and across the UK. Our services are regularly used for:
- Utility surveys
- Service verification
- Trial holes
- Potholing
- Cable exposure
- Duct exposure
- Safe digging around gas mains
- Water infrastructure projects
- Fibre network installations
- Construction enabling works
Using modern vacuum excavation equipment, we can safely expose buried services without the risks associated with traditional mechanical excavation methods.