Can a site cut be done without a soil report?

Not for a compliant building project — a soil report is genuinely required as part of your overall foundation design process, and the site cut itself is planned around your building’s finished floor level, which depends on that same design.

Proceeding with excavation before your design and soil assessment are finalised risks cutting to an incorrect level, potentially needing costly correction once the actual design requirement is confirmed.

The properly sequenced approach — soil report, then design, then site cut to the confirmed level — avoids this genuine risk of wasted work from cutting ahead of a finalised plan.

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