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Site clearance, excavation, foundations, concrete slabs, drainage and service ducts for extensions and new builds across Reading and the surrounding villages. Fully insured, free written quote.
Clearance and dig
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We open a trial hole first, then clear, set out from the drawings and excavate to the engineer's levels, so what is under the topsoil is known well in advance.
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Whatever can be reused stays and is graded in. The rest is muckaway, on waste transfer notes, and off site.
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Plant sized to the access available, which on a Reading terrace often means barrowing out and digging some of it by hand.
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Battered or shored to suit the depth, since standing in an unsupported excavation is how people get hurt.
Concrete and slabs
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Digging within three metres of next door and deeper than their footings needs a Party Wall notice a month beforehand.
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Either trench fill or a traditional strip footing, per the engineer, with concrete in before the trench sits overnight.
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Concrete waits until building control has seen the trench while it is open.
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Blinded hardcore under the oversite, and the membrane lapped and taped.
Drainage and ducts
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Two systems, never one. Foul and surface water each get their own falls and rodding access, and consent is secured before connecting.
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No soakaway is sized without a BRE Digest 365 test, and none goes within five metres of a foundation.
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Retrofitting a duct means digging the same ground twice, so water, power, gas and data are laid at first pass.
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Nothing is backfilled until the run has been tested and a photographic record taken of it.
Groundworks specialists in Reading
Frequently asked questions
GET YOUR FREE QUOTE NOW
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Send your postcode, what you would like doing, and a few photographs of the space as it is now.
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We look at the ground before we price anything. On clay or chalk the same dig is two different jobs.
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You get the quote in writing, itemised line by line, so you can see what each part of the work costs.
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Happy with it? We agree dates in writing before anyone turns up, and you are fully insured throughout.