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Site preparation & servicing
General site preparation for construction, including telephone, electrical, gas, water, and storm-drain servicing.
Pukas Excavating
Family-owned excavation, septic, and site work for Salmon Arm and the Shuswap.
01 The ground comes first
The work that has to be right before anything else can start.
Pukas Excavating Ltd. is a family-owned excavation and trucking company in Salmon Arm, British Columbia. We work residential, commercial, and subdivision jobs across the Shuswap — site preparation and servicing, septic systems, basement digs, land clearing, roads and driveways, demolition, backfill, and final grade.
Brandon Pukas and Tyler Pukas are the listed contacts. We are a registered on-site wastewater practitioner (planner and installer), and we run our own Bobcat excavators, Bobcat skid steers, and dump trucks.
02 Services
What we take on.
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Basement excavation
Basement and foundation digs — opened up, hauled, and left ready for the next trade.
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Septic systems
Registered On-Site Wastewater Practitioner — planner and installer. Conventional and treatment systems, from design through install.
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Land clearing
Clearing and stripping so a lot, a driveway, or a building site can actually get started.
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Roads & driveways
Road and driveway construction, from the cut through to a finished driving surface.
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Building demolition
Taking structures down and getting the material off the site, cleanly and in order.
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Backfill & final grading
Backfilling and final grade — the last pass that leaves the site ready for what comes next.
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Trucking, Bobcat & snow
Gravel trucking, Bobcat work, hardscaping and landscaping, plus snow service in season.
03 Why this crew
A family company, on Shuswap ground.
Directories describe Pukas as a family-owned and operated excavation business that has worked the Salmon Arm and Shuswap area for many years — trustworthy, reliable, and reasonable. The work, the tickets, and the name on the machine are what we stand on.
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Family-owned in Salmon Arm
Pukas Excavating Ltd., based in Salmon Arm. Brandon Pukas and Tyler Pukas are the contacts listed with the Shuswap Construction Industry Professionals.
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Registered ROWP
Registered On-Site Wastewater Practitioner — planner and installer. Septic work done by someone actually ticketed for it.
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Our own iron
Bobcat excavators, Bobcat skid steers and track loaders, and our own dump trucks — plus the tickets behind the utilities work: Certified Field Safety Representative and Underground Raceway Installer.
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Residential, commercial, subdivisions
From a single basement dig to site servicing and subdivision work. The same crew, the same standard.
04 On the ground
A gallery, waiting for the real plates.
These are placeholder photographs of Bobcat excavators, Bobcat track loaders, and a regular dump truck — the kinds of machines Pukas runs. They are not Pukas jobs, Pukas machines, or Shuswap sites, and will be replaced with the company’s own photos. Sources and licences.
05 How a job runs
Four steps. No mystery.
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Get in touch
Call or write and tell us about the site — a basement, a septic field, a driveway, a demolition, or a piece of land that needs clearing. Weekdays, seven to five.
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Walk the ground
We come look. Access, soils, utilities, and what the drawings don’t say. For septic, the ROWP planning starts here.
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Do the work
Excavate, install, haul, clear, take down. Our machines, our operators. The job is the job — done in the order it needs to be done.
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Final grade
Backfill and finish grade, then we get out of the way so the next trade — or you — can move in.
06 Service area
Based in Salmon Arm. Working the Shuswap.
The company is in Salmon Arm, BC, and serves the Shuswap. The map is a simplified outline of Shuswap Lake — Salmon Arm sits at the south end of the southern arm. Nearby communities are marked for orientation, not as a claim that every job is in every town.
- Salmon Arm
- Canoe
- Tappen
- Sunnybrae
- Silver Creek
- Blind Bay
- Sorrento
- Sicamous
- Mara
- Notch Hill
- Scotch Creek
- Celista
- Eagle Bay
- Anglemont
- Seymour Arm
- Enderby
- Chase
07 Reviews
What people say — when we have it.
A real review from a Shuswap customer will go here.
A second client comment will go here, once Pukas provides it or a public review is published.
Space for a third testimonial — builder, homeowner, or subdivision client.
08 Start a job
Tell us about the site.
Send the form and we’ll follow up. This preview is front-end only — submissions are not delivered yet, and a backend will be connected before the site goes live.
- Brandon Pukas 250-833-7985
- Tyler Pukas 250-804-4974
- Email pukasexcavating@gmail.com
- Hours Monday–Friday, 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM
- Mail PO Box 56, Salmon Arm, BC V1E 4N2