Septic install, repair, and replace for homes and light commercial across Central Iowa. Onsite wastewater is the lead. Site utilities, watermain repair, and excavation ride with the same crew. Family owned since 1992. Not a pumping service. Not indoor house plumbing.
Small company. Serious work.
Septic first. Utilities & watermain across Central Iowa.
Septic design and install lead the board. Site utilities, watermain repair, and excavation run with the same crew. One schedule, one phone call. Serving Adel, Waukee, Grimes, Perry, Winterset, Van Meter, Dallas Center, West Des Moines, and greater Central Iowa across Dallas, Polk, Madison, Guthrie, and Warren counties.
Full installation for residential and commercial systems - conventional, mound, and pressure dosed.
We partner with licensed engineers to design a system that fits your site, your budget, and the products that hold up - from a single bedroom addition to a full community system.
Underground pipe for commercial pads, multifamily, and municipal projects - sanitary, storm, and service.
Watermain installs, taps, and emergency break repair - including the ones nobody wants to dig up at 2 a.m.
Trenching, shoring, backfill, and light grading to prep a site for the pipe - or finish it after.
We're a small company doing the kind of work bigger contractors charge twice as much for. Modern equipment, licensed contractor and excavating crew, and people who've been together for years.
You hire RD McKinney, you get RD McKinney. No layered project managers between you and the trench.
Founded 1992. The same crew has been laying pipe across Central Iowa longer than a lot of GCs have been in business.
Doosan and Bobcat excavators, trash pumps, shoring boxes, compaction - the right iron staged for the job.
Iowa licensed contractor and excavator. CIOWTS certified. Fully insured. Comfortable on commercial pads and public utility scopes. Onsite wastewater and underground work, not indoor house plumbing.
We hit the GC's schedule the first time. Layout to backfill - clean, inspected, signed off, on to the next.
Watermain breaks, sewer backups, after-hours repairs - we answer the phone when the line goes down.
Residential mound system from design coordination through final cover - tank set, pressure-dosed lines run, mound built, stone retaining detail finished. Inspected and approved on schedule.
Discuss a Similar ProjectRD McKinney Plumbing & Excavating has been on the trench line across Central Iowa since 1992. Family owned. Lean by design. Direct ownership on every project, modern equipment, and a crew that takes pride in clean trenches and inspections that pass the first time.
Three decades of underground experience on jobs that are too small for the regional giants and too critical for a one-truck outfit. Residential and light commercial septic lead. Site utilities and watermain repair ride alongside. We don't pump tanks. We don't do indoor house plumbing. We dig, install, repair, and leave it inspected.
Family-owned and Adel-based since 1992. Roughly 25 to 50 miles of Des Moines. Septic install, repair, and replace lead the board; watermain, site utilities, and excavation run with the same crew.
Not sure if we cover your address? Give us a call at (515) 993-7802. We work with Dallas County Environmental Health, Polk County, Madison County, Guthrie County, and neighboring health departments regularly.
Pipe work is trench work. We run locate-first, dig with care around existing utilities, and carry the coverage to back it all up.
We're growing. Looking for operators, pipe layers, and laborers who care about clean work and want a job that doesn't disappear when the weather turns. Modern Doosan and Bobcat fleet, year-round work, and a crew that has each other's backs.
Bid request, emergency repair, or just an early-stage question - drop us the details and we'll get back the same day.
