Tanner Excavating is AMAZING! We recently needed to have our orangeburg sewer pipe replaced from our house to the sewer main in the street. After speaking to several companies, we chose to have Tanner Excavating (family-owned business based in Dexter, Michigan) complete our job. Pat and Alicia Tanner are the owners and their children also work in the business as well as an additional 3 great guys. From our first contact with Pat and Alicia, we were impressed with their responsiveness, professionalism, communication, and their critical thinking skills surrounding the specifics of our job. Pat came over the same day and immediately noticed our extensive landscaping near the house and offered several ideas for alternative approaches for completing the work. I was especially concerned about a beautiful, large red maple tree which was right next to where they needed to dig. The crew came up with solutions to preserve the tree and worked carefully to protect the rest of my landscaping. (They will be back in the spring time to finish up the finer details that couldn't be done in the winter!)( Pat communicated with me regularly as he began pulling permits with the city and lining up the start date. He brought over his crew a few days early to look at the work that needed to be done, to meet me, and to answer all of my questions. It was clear from the way that Pat interacted with his crew that he valued and respected them and their work ... and it was clear that Pat had been doing this kind of work himself for years. They tossed ideas around together and collaborated on solutions. It was also clear that his crew enjoy working for Tanner Excavating. They later repeatedly told me how much they feel valued and taken care of by Pat, the owner. I love that the crew feels valued and respected! The crew encountered unexpected and unheard of difficulties in the roadway but they consistently conveyed patience, confidence, problem solving skills, and passion for what they were doing. Abe, Michael, and Zane were super friendly and remained positive and optimistic in all of our interactions and through all of the challenges in the roadway. I loved that they welcomed all of my questions and encouraged me to come and watch what they were doing because I was so curious. Abe, Michael, and Zane made the tough work in the roadway look easy -- even after our 2-3 day job turned into a 6 day job due to these unforeseen circumstances! Pat Tanner consistently demonstrated a very strong sense of integrity, honesty, and work ethic! Even though the job became more extensive than originally expected and quoted, our final price was exactly the same as our quoted price. When I said that I felt badly that our job was more extensive than expected and that he may have lost money on our job, Pat responded with "Yes, it did take more than twice as long to complete than anticipated, but I told you a price ahead of time and that is what I am sticking to ... because that is just what you do!" The entire crew and team at Tanner are friendly, approachable, knowledgable, and professional, people who do a great job! I completely trust them and have been recommending them to everyone I know. It is not often that one can excitedly rave about an independent contractor ... but I am certainly filled with positive feedback about Tanner Excavating! read more

TL/DR: Tanner Excavating replaced our sewer pipe from the lawn to the city pipe. They are professional, knowledgeable, thorough, efficient and responsive to communication. We had a clog pipe somewhere on our property. Michigan Power Rodding was called and they were unable to get through a clog. They sent a camera down our pipe and the camera hit a clog somewhere outside, possibly a collapsed sewer pipe. We called Tanner Excavating, and several other companies, to get quotes for the work. Mr. Patrick Tanner came out within 24 hours and gave us a ballpark number for replacing the clay pipe from our PVC pipe to the city pipe in the street, complicated by removing a tree on the easement. One company never showed up and one company didn't want to deal with the tree. Within the next 24-48 hours, Mr. and Mrs. Tanner had already communicated with a tree removal company to get a quote for the removal, communicated with the City to determine what was needed to start the work, communicated with me about a possible schedule to complete the work and sent me a complete quote for the work, which was within his ballpark estimate. After we signed the agreement, his crew arrived the day before I was told they would start to bring equipment. Abe and Zane were very professional, friendly and reassuring. The sewer line runs under our water line and they were impressively skilled with that heavy machinery. The extent of digging was also less than what I thought it would be. At the end of each day, Abe and Zane were able to reconnect our sewer so it was functional, fenced off the work site for safety, and kept our lawn, street and sidewalk clean. When we encountered another complication, Mr. Tanner, Abe and Zane went into troubleshooting mode. It was clear to me watching them interact, that Mr. Tanner respects his crew and his crew respects him. I cannot stress enough how professional, adept and kind they all were during a really stressful time. All told, Tanner Excavating dug up and replaced our sewer pipe, repoured our concrete curb, resurfaced the asphalt street where they dug, added topsoil, leveled and reseeded our lawn, documented everything with pictures and video, and were done in 4 1/2 working days. read more

They did an excellent job at my house. They were timely on offering me a quote to run sewer and water lines to my garage, and they were able to fit me in to their schedule earlier than I expected. They were upfront about costs for the project. At the end, they put everything back like it was. They came back once the weather was warmer and seeded my lawn as well. Would definitely recommend Tanner Excavating! read more

Tanner Excavating might take a while to get to your job, but they'll do a bang-up job once they do. After buying a new place with an end-of-life sewer line, I figured it'd be good to replace the pipe while (1) the ground wasn't frozen and (2) the pipe was working. After getting a few quotes, Pat Tanner's family company had the best-written and best-thought-out quote. He considered trenchless (didn't make sense for my property) and a few options for dealing with the driveway. Pat's son Dan ran the 2-3 person crew for my job; he's definitely on track to run his own business, and the crew was friendly and efficient. They did a stellar job of moving quickly, cleaning up after themselves, and they ran a nice, straight pipe run. Tanner's subcontractor replaced the driveway; again, good, solid work, quickly done (2 days of concrete laying, starting the Monday after the pipe was laid). All in all, I was without water & sewer for a few hours, and it was a few weeks between tearing up my old driveway and having my new one set enough to drive on; not bad. The one burr in my experience was wait time to get started. My job wasn't urgent --- it was preventative maintenance --- which put me behind the in-progress and the urgent work. Once I gave Tanner Excavating the go-ahead, it took a few months to actually break ground; fine in this case, but not perfect. Pat promptly returned my calls and kept me in the loop during this time, but it did take a while. I'll definitely call Tanner Excavating for any other heavy work like this --- and if it's urgent I'll say so. read more

Tanner Excavating - Breaking up concrete in order to replace a sewer line. - General Contractors Near Me

Took three days only to replace my water and sewer lines. They use a method that bores under you front yard to your house. So you don't get a big trench in your yard, saving all of my extensive landscaping. They were neat, communicative, hard working, happy guys. Highly recommend. read more

We brought out 4 different contractors to take a look at our job and give us a bid to replace our sewer line (orangeburg near/close to failure). We have extensive landscaping/retaining wall that our sewer line ran right through, so we were hoping for a pipe bursting method to avoid tearing down and digging up our yard. Two of the contractors said pipe bursting couldn't be done. One said it could but he had reservations and was nervous to promise anything. Then I called Tanner Excavating and Pat was confident he could get it done, pass inspection and not dig up our yard. We hired Tanner, and boy are we glad we did! Our job ended up being quite the task and each day the crew came with a great attitude while working tirelessly. They always kept me informed of what was going on and when our sewer/water would be off. I really appreciated how well they cleaned up after themselves each day before packing up to go home. Our neighbors (despite the disruption to the street) even said they were super nice and appreciated them hosing off the street each day. The job wasn't cheap and he wasn't the cheapest bid we received, but at the end of the day I trusted in their experience and expertise in the pipe-bursting method and we now have a brand new sewer line (they also added some additional b-dry to our basement) and our landscaping is untouched. I would highly recommend Tanner Excavating - very professional, dependable and honest. read more