Martin Excavation Contractors

Excavation Company in Chicago, IL5.0 Google rating, 36 reviews18 reviews in the last 12 monthsMost recent review 2026-10-15Claimed on Google

About

Martin Excavation Contractors is based in Chicago and is a well-known and well-respected company in the business of excavating, underpinning, and earthmoving projects for our local industry. Due to our extraordinary customer service, we are a company that has grown from word of mouth through our many successful projects and happy customers, and we are proud to say that many of our projects are repeat business. We have worked on large commercial building sites and residential homes, and it may seem that we just move earth around with big machines, but this kind of work requires experience, precision, and skill. From our many years in the industry and our professional, experienced contractors, you can be sure you are hiring the best!

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Services

  • Excavation
  • Driveways

What reviews mention

  • driveway replacement 5
  • excavation work 5
  • concrete work 4
  • clean digging 2
  • leveled lot 2
  • polite crew 2
  • knowledgeable team 2
  • site prep 2
  • thoroughness 2
  • patio 2

Recent reviews

We enquired about a cracked path and ended up replacing two slabs and the step as well. Martin Excavation Contractors worked out that the ground underneath had never been compacted, and that explained why it kept moving. they dug it out properly, put stone in and whacked it down ...

5 of 5, 2026-10-15

Excellent job from Martin Excavation Contractors on a drive and a garage slab that had to be done together. The digging out found an old soakaway nobody knew about and they stopped to work out what to do with it before carrying on. The base went in to a proper depth and was compa...

5 of 5, 2026-10-12

Digging is one of those jobs where you can't tell good from bad until months later, so I went on how they talked about it. About an hour of walking the yard before anything else and they'd already flagged a few things I hadn't thought about, like where the spoil would go and whet...

5 of 5, 2026-09-18

Before the new slab went down they took four loads of old out. Martin excavation contractors did the whole dig and haul rather than leaving me somebody else for it. That made the job simple for me. A single company. A single number. A single date to keep track of.

5 of 5, 2026-09-08

Our foundation had a crack that kept letting water into the basement every time it rained hard. We tried patching it ourselves a couple times and it never held. After getting a few quotes around Evanston we decided to go with Martin and it was the right move. They actually looked...

5 of 5, 2026-08-16

Hours

Mon8 am to 7 pm
Tue8 am to 5 pm
Wed8 am to 5 pm
Thu8 am to 5 pm
Fri8 am to 5 pm
SatOpen 24 hours
SunClosed

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