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Clear Ground Excavations · Land clearing & excavation

An owner-operated excavation business working out of Meadow Heights, in Melbourne's north. One operator, a 1.8 tonne mini excavator and a tipper — and, until this build, nowhere to send the people who called.

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Desktop view of the Clear Ground Excavations homepage, with the operator standing beside the mini excavator
Live site · DesktopCaptured from the production deployment

The challenge

Excavation is bought on trust and on speed. Nobody wants a site visit before they know a rough number, and nobody fills in a five-field enquiry form standing in their own backyard. The work was already being priced from photos over the phone — the website had to make that the easy path rather than fight it with a contact form.

The approach

Put the operator on the page, answer the pricing and access questions before anyone has to ask them, and end every path at a phone number. The enquiry flow composes the message for the customer and hands it to their own texting or email app, so they can attach the photos the quote actually depends on.

Proof, not promises

Their own jobs, from the same spot.

Stock photography would have undone the whole argument. The work section is built from the operator's own phone photos, paired before and after and shown behind a slider the visitor drags — keyboard accessible, and captioned with what actually changed.

Before-and-after comparison sliders on the Clear Ground Excavations site, showing a nature strip and a side yard cleared and levelled
Before-and-after sliders · Real jobs, photographed from the same position
Mobile view of the Clear Ground Excavations homepage with the call button fixed in the header
Live site · Mobile

Built for a phone in a work glove.

Almost everyone who needs a block cleared is standing on it when they look this up. The phone number sits in the header at every size, the type is set large enough to read in sunlight, and the whole site is a static Next.js build on Vercel so it arrives on a patchy mobile connection.

Call button pinned in the header
High-contrast type at large sizes
Photo-first enquiry, no form backend
Static Next.js build on Vercel

Where the work is

Coverage you can see, not a list you scroll.

Eighteen suburbs across Melbourne's north, drawn on a map with the real travel radius around Meadow Heights rather than buried in a footer. It answers the first question every caller asks — do you come out this far — and gives each suburb a place in the page for local search.

The Clear Ground Excavations service-area section, showing a map with 10km and 20km rings around Meadow Heights beside a list of covered suburbs
Service-area map · Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, tiles © CARTO

What Blu Mint delivered

Everything from the logo to the deployment, with the site structured around the four things the business actually gets paid for.

  • Brand identity and visual system
  • Responsive interface design
  • Four service pages
  • Before-and-after comparison sliders
  • Interactive service-area map
  • SMS and email message composer
  • Local business and FAQ structured data
  • Supporting guides on pricing and access
  • Next.js development
  • Vercel deployment

Where it stands

The site launched in August 2026, so there are no traffic numbers to report yet.

What we can point at is the build: the brand, four service pages, the suburbs the business covers, the questions it gets asked, and an enquiry path that ends in the operator's phone rather than an inbox nobody checks. We will add the search and enquiry results here once there is a fair stretch of data behind them.