Whether you're a self-builder on a single plot or a developer running a small residential scheme, we deliver groundworks packages that hand a clean, accurate platform to the frame contractor, set out to your engineer's drawings, on programme, and priced on either a fixed package or day rate depending on scope certainty.
A new build groundworks package covers everything from first spade to oversite: setting out, reduced level dig, muck-away, foundations, foul and surface water drainage, service ducting, cavity walls to DPC and the beam-and-block or slab oversite ready for the frame or brickies to start.
Self-builders taking on a single plot, small developers running 2–12 unit schemes, and main contractors who need a subcontract groundworks package priced and delivered by someone reliable in West Norfolk.
As soon as planning is granted, drawings are signed off by your engineer and service positions are confirmed. Booking a groundworker early is critical, availability, muck-away logistics and concrete delivery all take planning.
New build groundworks sit under everything else on the programme. A day lost on foundations is a day lost by every trade behind you. A dimension out by 25mm is a frame that doesn't sit. A drainage run at the wrong invert is a rebuild after building control fail it. The margin for error is small, that's why experience matters more than the headline rate.
Cheap groundworks packages on new build plots almost always end the same way: something's missing from the quote, there's a variation on every stage, muck-away volumes surprise everyone, and the programme slips by weeks before a course of brick goes down.
One dimension wrong at setting out cascades through the whole build. The frame contractor arrives, nothing lines up, and someone's paying for the rework.
Trench-fill where mass-fill was priced, or vice versa. Extra concrete, extra time, and often a fight over who's paying.
Ducts for gas, water, power, BT laid at the wrong time or missed entirely mean digging up finished drives after the DNO turns up.
Muck-away lorries not booked, concrete pours in bad weather with no cover, building control inspections not called, each delay is a day, and days add up.
the owner walks the plot with your drawings, checks access, ground conditions, existing services and drainage falls, and flags anything that changes the price.
Where scope is clear, a fixed itemised written quote in 3 working days. Where ground conditions are unknown, transparent day-rate with a not-to-exceed cap.
Set out to engineer's drawings, datum confirmed, reduced level dig to design, spoil managed and muck-away booked in the right sequence.
Foundations poured to spec, foul and surface water drainage laid to correct falls and inspected, service ducts installed for every incoming utility.
Cavity walls to DPC, beam-and-block or slab oversite finished level, site left ready for the frame or bricklayers. Building control stages signed off.
Owner-managed scheduling of muck-away, concrete, ready-mix and building control inspections, no lost days waiting for the next resource.
Fixed package where scope is certain, transparent day rate where it isn't. Either way, you know the basis of every pound.
We coordinate building control inspections at the right stages so foundations, drains and DPC are signed off without programme delay.
Foundation type matched to ground and engineer's spec, trench-fill, mass-fill, deep-fill or raft, not just what's quickest to pour.
Gas, water, power, BT and drainage ducting all installed in the correct sequence so nothing gets dug up after the drive's laid.
Site delivered to the follow-on trades tidy, level, on grid and dry, the platform they need to hit their own programme.
Setting out is where the accuracy of the whole build starts. We work from engineer's drawings, establish a datum on site and set out foundation lines with profiles, checked and re-checked before the excavator arrives. Diagonal checks confirm the plot is square before the first bucket comes out.
West Norfolk ground varies enormously, sand, silt, shrinkable clay near trees, made ground on infill plots. The foundation type has to match. We install what your engineer specifies and coordinate the building control inspection at excavation before any concrete goes in.
Foul, surface water and service ducting are laid in the right sequence and to the correct depths and falls. Every joint bedded and haunched, every direction change on a rest bend or gully, every rodding point accessible. We hand over as-built information for adoption or building control.
Depending on plot, ground and follow-on programme we install either beam-and-block suspended ground floor or a ground-bearing insulated slab. Either way, the finished platform is level, dry and ready for the frame trades to start immediately.
Straight answers on cost, timelines, guarantees and how the job runs. If yours isn't here, call Jason on 07880 333321.
Free site survey within 7 days. Written, itemised quote within 3 working days. Owner-managed by Jason personally, no call centre, no middlemen.
