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Designed garden terrace with lighting and planting at dusk

Our work

The scale of project we are built for

A representative look at the work we take on: driveways measured in hundreds of square metres, gardens rebuilt from the subsoil, extensions and complete new homes.

Selected projects

Groundwork you cannot see, finishes you cannot miss

Every one of these started with the same conversation about levels, drainage and what the ground could actually take. That is where the difference in the finished result comes from.

Resin bound driveway sweeping up to a large detached brick house with granite kerb edging

Near Colchester

Resin bound sweep, detached family home

A failing gravel frontage dug out entirely, rebuilt on a permeable base with granite kerbs, then finished in a seamless resin bound surface with level thresholds at the garage and front door.

  • Full excavation and muck away
  • Permeable base and linear drainage
  • Granite kerb detailing
Charcoal block paved driveway with pale border and circular feature at a large detached house

Chelmsford

Block paved in and out drive

A wide frontage set out around a circular centre feature, with a contrasting double border, fully haunched edge courses and falls taken to a soakaway well clear of the house.

  • Haunched edge restraint
  • Circle feature and cut lines
  • Soakaway and surface water design
Designed garden with porcelain terrace, raised planters, lighting and striped lawn at dusk

Maldon

Full garden design and build

A sloping rear garden terraced into three usable levels, with a porcelain terrace, rendered planters, integrated lighting, deep borders and a new lawn laid on cultivated topsoil.

  • Measured survey and design
  • Engineered retaining and steps
  • Planting, turf and lighting
Contemporary rear extension with sliding doors and roof lantern lit at dusk

Ipswich

Single storey rear extension

Foundations, drainage diversion, structural steels and a full shell for an open plan kitchen and living space, with the terrace and thresholds built as part of the same contract.

  • Foundations and drainage
  • Steels and structural openings
  • Terrace and threshold detailing
New build detached house under construction with blockwork walls and timber roof trusses

Braintree

New build detached house

A plot taken from clearance through setting out, trench fill foundations, beam and block floor and blockwork to a watertight shell, with building control attended at every stage.

  • Setting out and foundations
  • Beam and block floor
  • Ten year guarantee issued
Reinforced concrete foundations with rebar and shuttering ready for pouring

Halstead

Foundations for a replacement dwelling

Reinforced foundations designed by the project engineer for mixed ground, with reinforcement fixed to specification, pours booked around the weather and every stage photographed.

  • Engineer designed reinforcement
  • Recorded pours and depths
  • Service ducting installed
Groundworks team compacting a sub base for a large driveway at a detached house

Sudbury

Sub base rebuild, long approach drive

A rutted rural drive excavated, membrane laid and a deep sub base built and compacted in layers, with edge restraint added so the finished surface holds its shape through winter.

  • Geotextile membrane
  • Layered compaction
  • Edge restraint and drainage
Excavator demolishing an old outbuilding with a muck away lorry alongside

Witham

Demolition and plot clearance

An old garage and workshop removed under method statement, services isolated, hardcore crushed and reused on site, and the plot handed over level and ready for setting out.

  • Method statement and isolation
  • Crushed hardcore reused
  • Plot left at measured level

Photographs shown are representative of the specification and standard of work we deliver. We are happy to arrange a visit to a recently completed project by appointment. Ask when we meet on site.

What we can build

Breaking Ground. Building Trust.

Have a project of this size in mind?

Send us the drawings, the postcode and your timescale. We will visit, take levels and give you a fixed, itemised price.

Ten year guarantee / 30 miles of Colchester / New builds and substantial projects