Steve Sarette & Son Excavation works out of 282 Goffstown Back Road in Goffstown, New Hampshire, and describes itself as a family-owned excavation company serving homeowners, businesses and municipalities across southern New Hampshire.
The company's own site lists septic design and installation, driveway grading, ledge hammering, town sewer and water connections, site development for house lots, drainage and retention ponds, yard expansions, light demolition, road construction and snowplowing, and states it covers Goffstown, Bedford, Hooksett, Merrimack, Manchester, New Boston, Dunbarton, Derry, Amherst and Londonderry.
Septic work is what the written record keeps coming back to. Customers describe full system replacements handled from design through permits and inspection, a leach field and new tank for a four-bedroom house, a drain field paired with a yard extension, and a new sewer line run from house to property line. Several say a rep walked the property before quoting and that the plans and approvals were handled for them.
Drainage is the other recurring theme. One homeowner described 23 years of water in the driveway and a sump pump running every five minutes, solved after several other contractors had not; another had a rainwater drainage system built within a week of the first call, with settling in the yard levelled at the same time.
The crew's care with the property comes up repeatedly: driveways and landscaping protected while equipment worked, a sprinkler head fixed on a return visit after digging, a yard left needing grass in only the two equipment ruts. Google publishes a 4.9-star average from 64 ratings, the Better Business Bureau grades the business A+, and a New Hampshire Reddit commenter recommending septic firms called it excellent.
Two things to settle before you book. The site advertises over 30 years in the trade while the Better Business Bureau file records a 2001 start and 24 years, so ask what the longer figure counts. And excavation is a large-ticket job — one reviewer accepted a quote that came in slightly higher than a rival's, so get the design, the permit path and the price in writing.
