Earthworks and site prep, Christchurch.
Dig-out, hardfill, compaction, drainage prep. Done by the same crew that pours the foundation, so the ground is prepared for exactly what is going on it.
Why the digger and the pour belong to one crew.
A foundation is only as good as the platform under it. When the excavation crew and the foundation crew are different companies, the gap between them is where problems live: hardfill compacted to someone else's standard, levels that suit the digger but not the slab, drainage prep that meets the plan on paper and argues with the plumber on the day.
We prep the sites we pour. The dig-out matches the system going on it, the compaction gets checked by the people whose slab depends on it, and there is no phone call where two contractors explain why the problem is each other's.
- Dig-out and levels matched to the foundation design.
- Hardfill compacted and checked by the crew pouring on it.
- Drainage prep coordinated with the plumber's rough-in.
- The site left clean enough to build on, not a spoil heap.
A bad platform never announces itself on the day.
Ground work goes wrong quietly. The bill arrives months later, and by then it is the slab wearing it.
Dug to the machine, not to the foundation.
Christchurch ground changes street to street, and a platform priced off a plan is a guess until somebody reads it. Harder sections need over-excavation and engineered fill before a raft is even an option. None of that announces itself on the day. It arrives months later, as a compaction test the council will not accept or a crack in a slab that was poured on a platform nobody checked.
We prepare the ground we pour on.
We read the ground before we price the platform, and the dig-out is cut to the foundation going on it. Hardfill goes down in lifts and gets checked as it goes. Where a section needs over-excavation and engineered fill you hear that before the digger starts, not after. The set-out is surveyed against the consent, and the spoil is carted off and priced with the job.
Ring 021 222 0952 with the site address and Mark will tell you what the platform actually needs.
Prepared ground, proven.
Two pads, one platform
Multi-unit site prep
The next stage dug in
Starters up, excavation open
Tight-access infill
Two slabs down
Backyard build, behind the house
Tight access
One book runs the digger and the pour.
Earthworks bought alone is just digging. Earthworks bought from the crew that pours next means the platform gets built for the exact slab going on it, and one phone number answers for both.
- Experience
- Over 25 years in construction
- Site safety
- Sign-off
- LBPon every foundation
- Where
- Christchurch and wider Canterbury
Get the ground right first.
Email the plans and the site address. The earthworks get priced with the slab, as one job.
Details, then the drawings.
PDFs or photos of the drawings are both fine. Everything sent here lands with Mark himself.