Davis & Company provides excavation services throughout Brighton, Michigan — foundation work, drainage corrections, utility trenching, and pond construction. We’re a family-owned excavation contractor based in nearby Perry, serving homeowners, farmers, and commercial clients across Livingston County since 2015.
Excavation is the groundwork stage behind most projects that require moving earth with purpose — a new foundation, a utility or septic line, a drainage fix, a pond, or a demolition and removal job. Getting this stage right the first time matters, because problems that get missed during excavation are usually far more expensive to correct once the rest of the project is built on top of them.
We’ve provided excavation services across Mid-Michigan since 2015, using equipment matched to the scope of the job and taking the time to walk each site before any digging starts — whether that’s a residential lot in Brighton or a larger commercial or agricultural property.
Brighton brings us a wide range of excavation calls — homeowners dealing with a wet yard, builders needing a foundation dug on a new lot, and property owners putting in a pond. As an excavation company, we scope each job on-site rather than over the phone, so the plan actually fits your property instead of a generic estimate.
We’ve provided excavation services across Mid-Michigan since 2015, using equipment matched to the scope of the job and taking the time to walk each site before any digging starts — whether that’s a residential lot in Brighton or a larger commercial or agricultural property.
Brighton has a mix of established in-town neighborhoods and larger properties on the township’s more rural, lake-adjacent land, and excavation needs shift depending on which side of that mix a property sits on. Homes closer to Brighton’s lakes — Woodland Lake, Lake Chemung, and the smaller lakes scattered through Brighton Township — often need excavation work done with extra attention to drainage and grading, since water tables and runoff patterns near the shoreline behave differently than they do further inland. Properties in newer subdivisions such as Oak Pointe or Pine Creek tend to bring different challenges than the township’s larger, more rural lots, where wells, septic systems, and longer driveways are more common. We work across both kinds of Brighton properties.
We’re based in Perry, Michigan, and regularly serve clients in Howell, Brighton, Fenton, Linden, Flushing, Lansing, Okemos, and the surrounding Mid-Michigan region. Not sure if we come to you? Give us a call and we’ll let you know.
Excavation is usually one piece of a larger scope of work. Once the ground is broken, site prep and grading typically follows to get the surface level and ready for construction. If your project touches a driveway — new gravel driveway installation, driveway grading, or repairing an existing driveway that’s developed ruts or drainage problems — culvert installation is often part of that same conversation to keep water moving correctly. On wooded or overgrown Brighton lots, land clearing usually happens before or alongside excavation. And once the site has been disturbed, hydro-seeding helps establish grass quickly and control erosion, with landscaping available afterward to finish the look of the property. We can coordinate any of these together so you’re working with one crew instead of several.
We’ve provided excavation services across Mid-Michigan since 2015, using equipment matched to the scope of the job and taking the time to walk each site before any digging starts — whether that’s a residential lot in Brighton or a larger commercial or agricultural property.
A family-owned company delivering reliable excavation, land clearing, and property services across Mid-Michigan since 2015.
Built on hands-on experience and long-term relationships, serving the community with consistent, reliable work.
Trusted by farmers, contractors, homeowners, and commercial property managers for a wide range of projects.
We assess every job clearly, use the right equipment, and follow through until the work is fully complete.
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From excavation and land clearing to driveways and seasonal services, our work speaks for itself. Take a look at our Google reviews to see why clients continue to call us back.
In most cases, yes. Standing water is usually a grading or drainage issue rather than something random, and correcting it typically involves regrading or adding a drainage line. We’ll walk the property and tell you what your specific situation calls for.
Yes, foundation excavation for new builds is one of our core services, and we coordinate with your builder’s schedule as needed.
Yes. Pond construction is a regular part of our excavation work, and the details depend on the size you want and what the soil on your property looks like, which we’ll go over during the estimate.
It can be. Properties near Brighton’s lakes sometimes need more careful attention to grading and drainage because of how water moves through the area. We take that into account when we assess a lake-adjacent site.
Yes. We offer landscaping services in addition to excavation, and for clients who want both handled together, we can coordinate the sequencing so the site is ready to go once the heavier equipment work wraps up.
Yes. Culvert installation often comes up alongside excavation and driveway projects in areas where drainage needs help, and we can scope that as part of the same job.
Brighton is one of the areas we regularly serve out of our Perry base, but the exact answer can depend on the specific location. Call (517) 625-7979 and we’ll let you know whether we cover your property.
