T. W. Nickerson, Inc.

T.W. Nickerson is a South Chatham excavation contractor and landscape supply yard the company says has operated on Cape Cod since 1962, offering site prep, Title V septic installation, water service work (it's an approved installer for the Town of Chatham), heavy equipment rental, and landscape/mulch products, alongside a Better Business Bureau A+ grade. The written reviews split cleanly between two things the business does well. On the excavation side, one homeowner hired the crew for a sewer tie-in and foundation excavation on a home addition and called them "prompt and professional in every way," saying they "continuously went above and beyond." Another, in 2022, had the crew regrade a yard, spread 160 yards of loam, hydroseed, regrade a driveway, and lay crushed stone and a granite walkway — a full property overhaul handled by one contractor. On the supply-yard side, reviewers separately praise punctual, courteous gravel and material delivery, and one called the selection "great" with "reasonable prices." Court records from around 2010 show the company was the plaintiff, not the defendant, in a long-running lease dispute with Fleet National Bank over the site its business operates on — a property and trust matter, resolved on appeal, that predates the current written reviews and says nothing about work quality. One small wrinkle: the Better Business Bureau's own listing for the company shows two different sets of officer names in different sections of the same profile — worth knowing about, though it doesn't affect the work described in reviews. For anyone on the Lower Cape needing excavation, septic installation, or bulk landscape materials, this is a business reviewers describe as thorough and well-organized on both the job-site and supply-yard sides, with more than six decades of local operating history behind it.