Site Work, Concrete & Drainage Contractor in Collingswood, NJ
Serving Borough of Collingswood in Camden County from our family-owned Cherry Hill yard, since 1979.
Yes. J.A. Cuzzupe Inc. works in the Borough of Collingswood, ten minutes from our Cherry Hill base, and has served Camden County since 1979. On Collingswood's narrow borough lots we do sewer and water service replacement, compact-equipment excavation, drainage, and concrete walks, steps and driveway aprons.
Free written estimates. Licensed and insured. 24/7 emergency response for sewer, water and storm failures.
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Services in Collingswood.
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Sewer & Water Line Repair
Original clay laterals and aging galvanized water services under borough streets. Street opening, restoration and inspection are as much of this job as the pipe, and we handle all of it.
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Concrete Driveways & Patios
Front steps, walks, stoops, single-width drives and aprons that have to match a pre-war streetscape. Narrow work with a lot of forming and edge detail, not big open pours.
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Drainage & French Drains
Eight feet between houses means two roofs draining into one strip of ground against two foundations. We pipe roof water forward to the street or an approved outlet instead of letting it soak beside the wall.
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Excavation & Grading
Compact machines, gate-width access and hand digging where nothing fits. On Collingswood lots the honest question is whether equipment can reach the rear at all, and we answer that on the site visit.
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Inground Pool Removal
Uncommon on borough lots, and when it comes up it's an access problem first. We assess whether a machine can reach the yard and what would have to be dismantled if it can't.
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Working in Collingswood.
Housing stock
Collingswood is a dense pre-war borough: 1910s through 1940s twins, foursquares and rowhome-style properties on narrow lots, many with shared or single-width driveways and small rear yards reached only through a gate. Foundations are stone, block or early poured concrete, and basements were built to be dry-ish rather than dry. Water services are frequently the original galvanized or lead-jointed runs from the street, and sewer laterals are clay. Front steps, walks and small concrete stoops from the same era crack and settle, and replacing them usually means matching an established streetscape rather than pouring whatever's convenient.
Ground conditions
The borough sits on generally firm ground sloping toward the Cooper River, so surface water has somewhere to run — the problem is more often that it runs between tightly spaced houses and finds a basement wall on the way. Lot spacing is the defining constraint: with eight or ten feet between buildings, roof water from two houses lands in the same strip, and there is nowhere to push it except forward to the street. Street work means opening borough pavement, which is regulated and inspected, and the utility congestion under those older streets means locating before digging is not optional.
Permits & inspections
Collingswood Borough Construction / Permits
- Address
- Borough Hall, 678 Haddon Avenue, Collingswood, NJ 08108
- Hours
- Construction Official available Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays
We file the permits and schedule the inspections ourselves — it isn’t left on your plate.
We work throughout Collingswood — Haddon Avenue, the PATCO Collingswood station, Knight Park, Cooper River Park, Newton Lake and the streets in between.
Collingswood questions, answered.
Work in the borough right-of-way is permitted and inspected, and restoration has to meet the borough's pavement specification. We file for it and schedule the inspection as part of the job. The exact process, fees and restoration requirements we confirm with the borough for your street rather than assuming.
Get the roof water out of it. Two houses' downspouts discharging into one narrow strip is more volume than that ground will ever take. We pipe the downspouts forward to the street or to an approved outlet, and where the grade allows, add a shallow intercept drain. It's usually a one- or two-day job with a real result.
Sometimes, with a mini-excavator through a gate — and sometimes not, in which case the work becomes hand digging with wheelbarrows, which costs more and takes longer. Where the only route crosses the neighbor's half of a shared drive, we get their agreement first. We'll tell you which situation you're in before quoting.
If the settlement is from a failed base or a void underneath, patching only hides it. We take it out, correct what's below, and reform the steps and walk to match the streetscape. On pre-war borough properties the detail matters, so we form and finish to match what's there rather than pouring a generic slab.
There will be a day or two where parking near the trench is unavailable and the street is partly restricted. We coordinate with the borough on traffic and notification, keep a passable lane where possible, plate the excavation overnight if it stays open, and restore the pavement to the borough's specification.
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