What groundworks do we take on around Barnsley?
Everything between a bare field and a finished surface. On new build sites that means stripping and levelling, digging and pouring footings, laying drainage runs, bringing up the sub base for roads and parking, setting kerbs and putting the tarmac on top. On commercial premises it is car parks, bases, kerbing and palisade security fencing. For homeowners it is the same skills at a smaller scale: the foundations under an extension, the base under a garden room, the dig under a drive.
The photos on this page are all ours, taken on our own jobs. They show the stage most firms never photograph, the trench before the concrete and the stone before the tarmac, because that is the stage that decides whether a job lasts.
Why does CHAS matter when you hire a groundworks contractor?
CHAS, the Contractors Health and Safety Assessment Scheme, independently checks a contractor's health and safety arrangements before they ever reach your site. Councils, public bodies and larger main contractors use it to pre-approve the firms in their supply chain, and because CHAS belongs to the SSIP group of schemes, the assessment is recognised by the other schemes in that group too. For you, that means one less set of paperwork to chase before we start.
Very few builders working on driveways and kitchens hold it. We do, so we can be approved onto the sites that require it.
Can we work around your programme on a live site?
Our photos show roads and car parks going in on developments that were very much still under construction, with scaffolding up on the plots and wagons coming in. On a site like that the road has to stay passable for the next delivery and the drainage has to be in before the bricklayers need the ground. We are used to working to a programme on a live site, alongside other trades.
When something cannot wait, we move quickly:
"Liam accepted the job and attended within 2 hours, sourced and replaced new manhole."
Lauren, Halifax, on MyBuilder
"...helped me out on a big tarmac job at very short notice."
Steve, Sheffield, on MyBuilder
A sketch and a phone call is enough to start with. The first visit and the estimate are free.
Groundworks for homeowners, as part of a bigger job
Homeowners rarely hire a groundworker directly. They hire a builder, and the builder usually brings one in. Because we are our own groundworkers, the foundations for your extension or renovation are dug by the firm building the walls on top of them, and the base under your new driveway is laid by the people who surface it. Nobody hands the job over halfway, and nobody can blame the last firm. From the first dig to the last worktop, it is one company.
Pricing groundworks in Barnsley and further afield
We are based in Barnsley and have worked across South and West Yorkshire and into north Derbyshire, from Sheffield and Wakefield to Halifax, Keighley and Chesterfield. Checkatrade customers have scored us 10/10 across six reviews. For work at the roadside there is more on our dropped kerbs page, and there are more photos of sites and finished jobs on our work page. To price your job, ring 07709 099108 and ask for Liam, or fill in the form below.
