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ADU Site Work Cost Calculator Guide

A focused guide for the site-work, foundation, setting, and utility allowances behind a modular ADU estimate.

Search signal

The refined keyword map keeps site-work, foundation, and utility-cost intent grouped together because these costs often decide whether a modular ADU budget stays believable.

Cost drivers

Useful inputs include access width, crane reach, grade, drainage, demolition, foundation type, trenching distance, panel capacity, sewer route, water line distance, and staging area.

Calculator use

Enter site-work categories separately. If a buyer has no foundation or utility quote yet, the calculator should show that gap instead of rolling it into the unit price.

Calculator use

Site work is where the simple estimate usually breaks.

Access check

Measure driveway width, overhead lines, staging space, crane reach, and module path before tightening the setting number.

Foundation check

Keep pad, anchoring, drainage, grade, and engineering assumptions in the foundation line.

Utility check

Water, sewer, electric, and gas/electric decisions should be priced by route and service condition, not guessed by ADU size.

Follow-up packet

Photos, rough dimensions, utility distances, and preferred placement turn this guide into a usable quote review.