.png)
Dig and clearance
-
Ground cleared, set out off the drawings and taken down to the engineer's levels, with a trial hole opened first so the ground is known before anyone starts.
-
Spoil is graded where it can be and the rest leaves as muckaway on waste transfer notes, rather than sitting in a heap.
-
Plant chosen for the access that exists, and dug by hand wherever a bucket would go through a root or a drain.
-
Battering or shoring to suit how deep the trench goes, because nobody should be standing in one that can collapse.
Foundations
-
Chalk runs close to the surface around the town centre and the Hog's Back, and on Guildford's slopes footings often step.
-
Trench fill on most plots, traditional strip where the design calls for it, concreted the day the trench opens.
-
The open trench is inspected by building control before concrete is poured.
-
Slabs cast on compacted hardcore and blinding, membrane lapped and taped.
Drainage runs
-
Foul kept apart from surface water, on the correct falls with rodding access, and the connection agreed with the water authority beforehand.
-
Soakaways sized from a BRE Digest 365 soakage test and set more than five metres away from any foundation.
-
Water, power, gas and data ducts go in while the trench is open, since retrofitting them later costs a great deal more.
-
Before backfilling we test and photograph the runs, so the record exists when the inspector wants it.
Groundworks specialists in Guildford
Frequently asked questions
GET YOUR FREE QUOTE NOW
-
Send your postcode, what you would like doing, and a few photographs of the space as it is now.
​
-
We look at the ground before we price anything. On clay or chalk the same dig is two different jobs.
​
-
You get the quote in writing, itemised line by line, so you can see what each part of the work costs.
​
-
Happy with it? We agree dates in writing before anyone turns up, and you are fully insured throughout.
.png)
Site clearance, excavation, foundations, concrete slabs, drainage and service ducts for extensions and new builds across Guildford and the villages around it. Fully insured, free written quote.