Access & Pad Set-Out
- Machine and tipper access to the pad location, and room for the shed delivery truck
- Pad size and finished level checked against your plans, the street and the neighbours
House & Shed Pads
House pads, shed pads and site cuts across Bundaberg, Gin Gin and Childers, cut to your plans and compacted in layers. Deal directly with the owner-operator for the cut, the fill and a pad that’s ready for the slab.
QES handles the site cut and pad preparation only — from the topsoil strip to a compacted, slab-ready pad — and leaves the site ready for your concreter or shed installer. Every house and shed pad across the Bundaberg region is quoted after a free site visit and operated by the owner.
Available by agreement: drainage shaping and levelling of the surrounds beyond the pad.
We assess access, ground conditions, fill and spoil, and the pad levels against your plans before quoting.
A good site visit avoids surprises on cut day.
We confirm the levels and the fill so the pad is right first time.
Your quote & next steps
Every house pad, shed pad and site cut is quoted individually after a free site visit, with the levels and scope confirmed in writing.
Tell us the site address, your preferred timing and share any site plan, engineer’s levels or shed pad specification.
We assess the site with you, your builder or your shed supplier before preparing the quote.
Review the written quote. Once accepted, we agree a start date around your concreter or shed delivery.
We strip, cut or fill to level, compact in layers and leave the pad ready for the slab.
It depends on cut depth and slope, how much fill is imported or spoil carted, the ground and the pad specification, so we quote after a free site visit rather than guessing. Call 0480 126 549 and we will come out, look at the block and price the actual pad.
Anything from a garden shed base to large rural machinery sheds. Tell us the shed footprint and wall height and we size the pad with clearance around it, prepare access for the delivery, and make sure water drains away from the slab.
It depends on cut depth, how much fill is imported or spoil carted, and the ground. A shallow scrape on a level block is a much shorter job than a deep cut on a slope. We give you a timeframe with the quote and let you know straight away if conditions change it.
Yes — sloped and split-level cuts are standard work. The 5.5 tonne excavator is the right size to cut accurately on a suburban block without tearing up the street or the neighbour’s side of the fence, and the skid steer trims the pad to finished level.
Yes. Our 10 tonne tipper delivers fill, road base and gravel from local suppliers and we spread and compact it as part of the pad job — one contractor for the whole scope rather than a separate delivery you have to coordinate.
Yes. Where your project has engineered levels — house slabs, larger sheds — we cut and compact to those levels and lift requirements. Most shed suppliers issue a pad specification with the shed; send it through and we prepare the pad to suit. We don’t produce the engineering ourselves. Builders: see how we work with builders.
No — we prepare the pad. On a typical shed job the shed company supplies the shed and its pad specification, we cut and compact the pad to that specification, your concreter forms and pours the slab, and the shed crew erects the shed. Approvals and any engineering sit with you, your builder or certifier. We coordinate timing so the pad is ready when the concreter is, and leave access for the shed delivery truck. If the same build needs a pool excavation or driveway preparation, we can quote those in the same site visit.
The site address, the plans or at least the footprint and slab height, any engineer’s levels or the shed supplier’s pad specification, photos of the block and the access from the street, and when your concreter or shed delivery is booked. Photos and PDF plans can be uploaded with the quote form.
Yes. On acreage the pad is often only part of the job: there is usually a track in for the concrete and delivery trucks, trenches for water, power or stormwater (your plumber or electrician lays and connects the lines), and drainage so the pad sheds water. We can quote those together at one site visit.
Often, yes. A house, and most sheds bigger than a small garden shed, need building approval through a building certifier, and the pad is built to those approved plans. Separately, Bundaberg Regional Council’s planning scheme only accepts small earthworks without an approval — broadly no more than 50 m³ of material, excavation no deeper than 1 m and only minimal fill (Table 5.7.1 of the planning scheme’s tables of assessment). Larger cuts may need an operational works approval, and planning overlays on some land may add requirements; different rules apply to farm works on Rural-zoned land. Your certifier or council confirms what applies to your block; we flag it at the site visit and work to the approved plans.