● ACTIVE · TAMPA / HILLSBOROUGH / PINELLAS
EST. 2008 · FL LIC. #CUC1226114 · FULLY BONDED
Heavy Excavation · Established 2008

MOVE DIRT.
POUR CONCRETE.
BUILD SOMETHING.

Tampa Bay's heavy excavation contractor. Site preparation, grading, demolition, underground utilities, and land clearing for residential builders, commercial developers, and anyone who needs to get a job out of the ground. Owner-operated. Licensed. Bonded.

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17+ Years operating
480+ Sites cleared
12 Machines in fleet
4.9/5 156 reviews
$5M Insured + bonded
Excavation site
BRANDON · 2024
Why Bedrock

OWNER-OPERATED. NO MIDDLEMEN.

Most excavation companies in Tampa are layered — a sales guy quotes the job, a project manager dispatches a crew, the crew sometimes shows up with the right machine. Costs go up, schedules slip, and nobody knows who's actually in charge.

Bedrock is different. Ray owns the company and operates the lead machine on every job over $15K. The crew is in-house, W-2, and runs our own equipment. You get one phone number, one face on site, one person accountable.

  • OWNER ON EVERY JOB OVER $15K Ray runs the lead machine, sets the grade, walks the property with you. No "project manager" middle layer.
  • FLEET OF 12 MACHINES, ALL OURS Cat skid steers, mini-excavators, a 320 Cat, dump trucks, rollers. Owned outright — not rented, not subbed.
  • LICENSED UNDERGROUND UTILITIES FL Lic. #CUC1226114 — we pull water/sewer/stormwater permits ourselves. No waiting on a sub.
  • HARD BIDS IN WRITING Every scope gets a written lump-sum bid. No T&M surprises. Change orders signed before work proceeds.
Capabilities

WHAT WE HANDLE.

Residential pad prep, commercial site work, underground utility installs, demolition, land clearing, drainage, and mass grading. Bid packages for GCs welcome.

01

Site Prep & Grading

Clearing, grubbing, stripping topsoil, mass grading, fine grading to engineer spec. GPS rover, laser screed, surveyor on call. Pads ready for slab.

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02

Underground Utilities

Water main, sewer lateral, stormwater, electrical trenching, conduit. FL-licensed underground utility contractor — we pull the permits ourselves.

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03

Demolition

Residential teardowns, light commercial, pool removal, concrete removal, asphalt rip-out. DEP-compliant debris hauling. Clean-to-grade on every job.

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04

Land Clearing

Selective tree removal, mulching, brush clearing, stump grinding. Arbor-smart — we keep what the plan keeps and haul the rest. Acres to sub-acre lots.

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05

Drainage & Retention

Pond excavation, dry retention, swales, french drains, culvert install. We solve flooding problems before they show up on the next big rain.

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06

Hauling & Fill Material

Dirt, sand, shell, lime rock, crushed concrete. Import and export. Our own triaxle dumps, loaded at quarry, weighed at site. Transparent tonnage.

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LICENSED / BONDED / INSURED
FL UUC
Lic. #CUC1226114
$5M Liability
Certificate on file
FL DOT Pre-Qual
Since 2013
SUNSHINE 811
Member · Dig Safe
Bedrock Excavation's yellow Volvo excavator parked on a muddy work site
OWNER / OPERATOR
From the Owner

IF IT'S MOVING, I'M RUNNING IT.

My grandfather ran heavy equipment in central Florida for 40 years — citrus groves, phosphate mines, the early strip malls on Dale Mabry. My dad ran a fleet for a commercial excavator in Miami. I started operating when I was seventeen, running skid steers on a residential crew in Ybor City.

I started Bedrock in 2008 with one used Cat 314 and a Ford F-550 I bought at an auction. The first year it was just me, a book of quotes, and a cell phone. I slept in the truck on long jobs. I still do sometimes.

Seventeen years later we've got twelve machines, six operators, and a dispatcher. But the core promise is the same: every job over fifteen grand, I'm on the seat of the lead machine. If you want to know how the job's going, call me — not a PM. I'll tell you straight.

— RAY CASTELLANOS
FOUNDER /
OWNER / OPERATOR
How We Work

FOUR STEPS. NO BS.

01

WALK THE SITE

Free site visit. We walk the property with you and your plans, ID the constraints — trees, utilities, setbacks, access — and confirm the scope.

02

HARD BID

Written lump-sum bid within 48 hours. Line items for clearing, grading, utilities, hauling, permits. No hourly "T&M" tricks.

03

DIG IN

Machines on site, erosion control up, 811 marked, permits in hand. Ray runs the lead machine. Daily updates if you want them.

04

CLEAN TO GRADE

Final grade signed off, debris hauled, site restored, certified to engineer spec. Photo log of the finished job delivered to you.

Job Reviews

156 REVIEWS. 4.9/5.

Repeat work from GCs and builders is how this business runs. A few recent notes from people who've had us back.

We've used Bedrock on seven builds over four years. Ray bids it, Ray runs it, Ray delivers it. No project managers, no confusion, no cost overruns. Every pad they turn over to us comes in on grade, compacted, ready for the slab crew. You cannot find better in Hillsborough.

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Tony Vasquez
Vasquez Homes · GC

Had a messy lot with three mature oaks we wanted to keep and a shed to demo. Ray walked it, marked the drip lines, and his crew took down the shed and cleared the brush around the oaks without touching a single root zone. Final grade came in within a quarter inch of spec. That's craft.

JK
Jillian Keane
Seminole Heights

Bedrock did the full underground utilities for our 22-unit townhome project in Brandon. Water, sewer, storm drain, electrical — all permit-in-hand, all done clean the first time. We've worked with three excavators on similar projects; Ray's was the only one that didn't cost us a week in callbacks.

MD
Mark Donovan
Donovan Development
Next Steps

READY TO DIG IN?

Send us the scope and we'll walk the site within 48 hours. Hard bids written in plain English — no estimator padding, no surprise change orders, no hiding fees in line items.

  • Owner walks every site — Ray personally
  • Hard lump-sum bid within 48 hours
  • Fully licensed underground utility contractor
  • $5M liability — certificate on file
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