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09/03/2026

Keep your goals to yourself until the work speaks for itself.

The moment you share what you're building, someone has an opinion. Most of the time it's doubt dressed up as concern. So I stopped talking about it and just went to work.

Everything you see at CMG today started as a blurry idea. Not a business plan. Not a clear vision. A lightbulb. Something I could feel before I could explain it.

So I moved toward it every day. Quietly.

I'm not where I want to be yet. Not even close. And until I get there, I'm not telling the full story. Nobody knows where I came from. They see what's in front of them now — but they don't know the person I was before any of this existed.

That story is being saved for when it's complete.

The only thing worth showing right now is the work.

📍 New Jersey | CMG Contracting
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09/01/2026

🚨 A SINKHOLE DOESN'T START THE DAY THE GROUND OPENS UP

It can start years earlier—when somebody decides that proper undercutting, approved select fill, controlled lifts, or compaction testing costs too much.

🕳️ Unsuitable soil, buried debris, organics, loose backfill, and underground voids may look perfectly fine when the project is finished. Then water and time expose the shortcut. The ground settles. Pavement drops. Concrete cracks. Utilities separate. In severe cases, the ground collapses.

🚧 When CMG uncovers unsuitable material or conditions that require additional work, we bring it to the builder immediately. Explain the condition. Recommend the proper correction. Explain what could happen if it isn't corrected. Then put everything in writing.

📝 DOCUMENT EVERYTHING
📸 Photographs and video
📋 Daily reports
📧 Written notice or RFI
💰 Pricing and change orders
🧪 Compaction testing results
✍️ Written approval or rejection

If the builder declines the additional work, get that decision in writing too. That documentation proves exactly what was discovered, what was recommended, and who made the decision.

⚖️ What saved a few dollars during construction can cost hundreds of thousands later — excavation, replacement material, failed pavement, cracked concrete, insurance claims, and lawsuits. The site contractor can get dragged into that claim years after the job is done.

Some lessons are learned through experience. Others are learned the expensive way. Our goal is to protect the client, the project, and our company before the ground starts collapsing.

✅ Proper material
✅ Controlled lifts
✅ Correct moisture
✅ Proper compaction
✅ Testing when required
✅ Complete documentation

The strongest structure is only as reliable as the ground supporting it.

Don't bury tomorrow's problem — or tomorrow's lawsuit.

📍 New Jersey | CMG Contracting
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08/28/2026

🚧 Moving 150 loads of soil out of a tight site doesn’t start with the excavator—it starts with logistics.

We’re on day three of this foundation excavation in Princeton. The plans call for 10-foot foundation walls. For us, that dimension—combined with the excavation footprint—determines the approximate volume of material, the number of truckloads required, disposal coordination, and the production schedule.

We’re estimating approximately 150 loads coming out and roughly 30 loads of backfill returning after the foundation walls are set.

The existing parking lot must first be cleared and the asphalt hauled away. Once the area is open, the surveyor returns to establish the foundation layout. From there, we continue excavating to the elevations shown on the plans.

Because the property is tight, we can’t stockpile material on-site. Excavation production has to stay coordinated with:

🚛 Truck availability and cycle times

📍 Capacity and timing at the receiving site

🚧 Police and traffic-control coverage

⚠️ Safe truck access in and out of the property

🏗️ Space needed for the upcoming crane and precast-wall deliveries

If trucks are delayed, excavation slows down. If the receiving site gets backed up, the entire cycle is affected. If material is left stockpiled, we lose the room needed for the next phase.

The excavator may be what people see, but the real operation is coordinating the trucks, receiving site, traffic control, equipment, and schedule so production never stops.

That’s tight-site excavation. The machine moves the dirt—the planning and logistics keep the project moving.

📍 Princeton, New Jersey

CMG Contracting LLC

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08/27/2026

🚧 A $2.5 million home came down. A projected $5 million home is going up. This is Short Hills.

Before new construction begins, the site must be cleared, inspected, and prepared in the correct sequence. Demolition is only the first phase.

🏊 The in-ground pool has been removed, but the excavation remains open until the inspector verifies the removal. Once approved, it can be properly backfilled.

🚗 The existing driveway was removed, with reusable material being processed and repurposed as approved fill on the lower portion of the site.

🪵 The wraparound deck, retaining walls, and other structural elements were also demolished and removed.

What looks like an empty lot represents weeks of coordinated work—demolition, material separation, inspections, removal, grading, and site preparation—before the next phase begins.

When the stakes are this high, the groundwork has to be right from day one.

📍 Short Hills, New Jersey

CMG Contracting LLC
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08/23/2026

This industry will humble you fast — and it doesn't care how good you were last year.

I've seen it happen. A contractor gets comfortable. Business is steady, the phone is ringing, and somewhere along the way the hunger starts to fade. They're showing up late, missing calls, losing bids they used to win without thinking twice.

And just like that, someone else has the job.

There is always someone out there who wants it more. Someone with more connections, more capital, a faster crew, or a sharper bid. The competition in this business doesn't slow down because you decide to coast.

What separates the contractors who last from the ones who don't isn't talent. It's the ability to stay uncomfortable on purpose.

Thick skin. Constant adaptation. The willingness to pivot when the market shifts, when a job goes sideways, or when something you've always done stops working.

The guys who make it aren't the ones who had the best start. They're the ones who never stopped moving.

Stay hungry.

📍 New Jersey | CMG Contracting
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08/22/2026

Every builder wants a good price. That's fair. But there's a difference between a fair price and an underpriced job — and experienced contractors know exactly where that line is.

Margins in sitework are not forgiving. Underprice a job and you're out $10,000 before you realize what happened. On a larger project, being off by a small percentage doesn't translate to a small loss. It translates to tens of thousands of dollars absorbed by the contractor.

This is something builders understand better than they let on.

A builder putting up a house isn't working on razor-thin margins. There's real money in that project. But when it comes time to negotiate the sitework, suddenly every number gets scrutinized like the contractor is the only one in the room trying to make a profit.

CMG prices jobs based on actual costs. Labor, equipment, disposal, materials, overhead, and a margin that keeps the business running and the crew paid.

That number is what it is — because the work costs what it costs.

A contractor who drops their price to win the job isn't doing the client a favor. They're setting up a job where corners get cut, schedules slip, or the contractor walks away losing money and unable to finish properly.

Fair pricing protects the client as much as it protects us.

📍 New Jersey | CMG Contracting
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08/21/2026

Different sites. Same standard.

20+ years in the dirt and the work still hits different when everything is moving the way it's supposed to.

New Jersey's infrastructure doesn't build itself.

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08/16/2026

🚧 A high demolition bid usually means one thing — the contractor doesn't know how to move material efficiently.

If they're not recycling the metal, they're leaving money on the table. If they're not recycling the concrete, they're paying full disposal rates when they don't have to. And if they're running third-party dumpster services instead of going direct to the transfer stations, every load costs more than it should.

That overhead gets passed straight to the client.

Here's how we think through material disposal on every demo job:

♻️ Metal recycling — scrap metal has value. A contractor who isn't recovering it is throwing money away.
🪨 Concrete crushing — bringing a crusher on site has a cost, but so does hauling concrete to a disposal facility. The math determines which one makes more sense.
🚛 Direct hauling — cutting out third-party services and going straight to the transfer station reduces cost per load and speeds up the job.
📊 Know your quantities — none of these decisions work without understanding exactly how much material you're moving. The numbers drive the strategy.

It's not one-size-fits-all. Sometimes crushing on site wins. Sometimes disposal off site is the better call. The difference is running the numbers before you commit to either.

Contractors who skip that step end up with bloated bids — and clients who overpay.

📍 New Jersey | CMG Contracting
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08/13/2026

🚧 The best construction solutions usually start with a simple question: what does the client actually need?

This client had a problem. He was sitting on excess soil at another job down the street and facing disposal costs he didn't want to pay. Hauling dirt off a site isn't cheap — and if you can avoid it, you should.

Here's how we worked it out:

🏚️ Demo first — we cleared the existing structure completely, including the old foundation.
🏊 Fill the void — the demolished swimming pool and foundation left a significant drop. Roughly 15 feet of space that needed material.
🚛 Redirect the soil — instead of paying to dispose of dirt from his other job, he brought it here. We used it to fill what the demo left behind.

The result: he went from a $20,000 disposal cost down to around $6,000. A fraction of the price — and the material went exactly where it was needed.

This is what good site coordination looks like. Two separate jobs, one smart solution. No wasted material. No unnecessary trucking costs.

In sitework, the most expensive move is often the one you didn't have to make.

📍 New Jersey | CMG Contracting
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08/08/2026

🥊 I STARTED CMG WITH $5,000, NO CLIENTS, NO TRUCKS, AND NO PLAN B.

When CMG Contracting started, it wasn’t a company. It was a piece of paper tucked away in a folder.

I was the youngest site foreman for a local contractor when I got fired. They said I wasn’t qualified or experienced enough. Go figure.

My son had just been born. My daughter was barely walking. I was one year into a new house and the sole provider—a wife, two kids, a dog, and bills that didn’t care I had lost my job. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

I remember standing in my yard damn near in tears, thinking, “What am I going to tell my family?” Life had punched me in the mouth. I could stay down or get back up.

By the end of that week, I had three job offers, including Local 825. But that same week I sold CMG’s first job in Princeton.

So I bet on myself. 🚧

I knew the trade. I knew the work. Business? I didn’t know a damn thing. Zero.

And it still isn’t easy. I’m nowhere near where I want to be. Every day is a fight to gain an inch. Some days I gain one; the next day I get knocked back two.

From the moment I open my eyes until I close them, it’s nonstop. It’s like jumping into a ring with the biggest, meanest UFC fighters and getting kicked in the gut, punched in the mouth, and hit from every angle. Every day, someone or something is trying to take you out. 🥊

But you get calloused. Your skin gets thicker. You learn to see the punches, duck, bob, weave, and keep moving.

As long as I have air in my lungs, I’ll fight. There is no Plan B. As cliché as it sounds: get rich or die trying. That’s exactly what the f**k it is. 🔥

Today, I’m grateful my old boss fired me. Without that punch, I might still be comfortable—and always wondering, “What if?”

Ten years ago I was sweeping roads as a laborer. Today my purpose is to build CMG into one of New Jersey’s largest sitework companies. I have 30 good years of fight left. Imagine what can happen. 📈

I haven’t made it. I’m nowhere close.

Until then, it’s back to work.

I’ll see you at the top. ⛰️

📍 New Jersey | CMG Contracting

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