Foundation construction, Christchurch.
The foundation itself: ribraft rafts on good ground, engineered systems where the ground argues, multi-unit pours where the job is bigger. One crew coordinates all of it.
The foundation is the job we do ourselves.
Plenty of outfits will pour you a slab. Foundation construction is a different trade: matching the system to the ground, running the reinforcing right, holding the levels a house stands plumb on. That trade is ours. Over 25 years in construction sits under every pour, starting as a qualified carpenter, which is why the slab is finished the way the next trade needs it.
Christchurch is the honest reason this page exists: this city's ground runs from clean TC1 gravels to TC3 land that moved, sometimes within one block. The system that suits your section is a ground question, not a brochure question, and we answer it before we price.
- Specialty
- Ribraft rafts
- Ground
- TC1 to TC3
- Sign-off
- LBPon every foundation
- Scale
- Single homes to multi-unit
The ground decides the foundation.
On a Christchurch section that is not a formality. It is the difference between a raft that consents and a job that re-prices halfway through.
Priced before anyone reads the ground.
A foundation quoted before the geotech is read is a guess, and on this ground the guess is expensive. The correction arrives late: a system that will not consent, or ground improvement nobody budgeted. The second cost is the gap between trades. Where the surveyor, the plumber, the engineer and the council each belong to a different phone number, the waiting is the cost, and a foundation that slips a week slips every trade behind it.
The ground question gets answered first.
The TC class is confirmed and the geotech read before a number leaves the office, so the system is matched to your section rather than to a rate card. From there the whole start of the build runs on one book: surveyor, plumber, engineer and council are ours to schedule and chase, so the waiting stops being your cost and the slab is handed back ready for frames.
Ring 021 222 0952 before you commit to a section. The advice is free and it is straight.
The foundation services.
Two pages carry the detail. More join them as the range comes online.
Pour day.
The pump at work
Mixers cycling
Split-level slab
Set-downs formed in
Multi-unit development
Every pad boxed, pods in
Finished slab
Ready for frames
Why builders hand us the whole start.
Repeat trade work is most of the book, and it stays that way for one reason: the job comes back finished. Not "poured". Finished. Trades booked and run, council met, levels checked, LBP sign-off with the handover, and a slab the framing crew can start on without a phone call.
Christchurch first, then Selwyn, Waimakariri and the wider Canterbury area.
- One point of contact from pricing to handover.
- Plumber, surveyor, engineer and council: booked and chased by us.
- Every foundation signed off by a Licensed Building Practitioner (LBP).
- Allied Concrete supplier: docketed loads, real plant.
Ready to price the foundation?
Email your plans and Mark prices from the drawings, or ring 021 222 0952 and talk the section through first.
Details, then the drawings.
PDFs or photos of the drawings are both fine. Everything sent here lands with Mark himself.