New home foundations, Christchurch.
The first permanent thing your house will ever have. Matched to the ground, coordinated end to end, and handed back ready for frames.
- 25+Years in construction
The house stands on a sequence, not a slab.
Every step is somebody waiting on the one before it, and those waits are most of what the start of a build actually costs. Miss one and the house inherits it forever.
We run the whole sequence as one job. On good ground that is usually a ribraft: fast, stiff, proven on Christchurch sections. Where the ground argues, the system changes with it, through TC2 engineering, re-levellable TC3 designs, or piles where nothing else honest will do.
Christchurch first, and Canterbury and the surrounding areas.
- Set-out surveyed to the consent
- Ground checked against its TC class
- Earthworks and hardfill compacted
- Services roughed in before the steel
- Steel and pods placed, council inspected
- Poured, finished, and signed off
Set out, prepped, ready
Where new builds lose their first month.
The start of a build has more moving parts than any other fortnight of the project, and most of them belong to nobody: the surveyor waits on the earthworks, the plumber waits on the surveyor, the council waits on the plumber, and every wait is a week.
That is the month we exist to delete. One book runs the sequence, so the waits collapse into a programme.
- Trades booked in sequence, not discovered in sequence.
- Council slots chased by us, not by your calendar.
- The ground question answered before it can re-price the job.
- A handover the framing crew can start on, same day.
The credentials.
Starting as a qualified carpenter.
Published from-rates, on the Process page.
With the paperwork at handover.
On every site we run.
New homes, from the ground.
First slab on bare land
Greenfield subdivision
Rural new build
Slab down, frames next
New build, established street
Pods down, pour next
Finished slab
Ready for frames
New-build questions.
When should the foundation conversation start?
Before you finalise the section if you can, and before consent if you cannot. The ground drives the system and the system drives the cost: the earlier that is real, the fewer surprises your budget meets.
Do you work under my builder, or direct for me?
Both, constantly. Builders hand us the start of the job as a package; self-builders come direct with plans. The job runs the same spine either way: the only difference is whose phone Mark rings with updates.
When does the engineer need to be involved?
Before anything past TC1 gets priced properly. If your project has one, we work to their design; if it does not, we bring ours in as part of running the job.
Which foundation system will my house get?
The one the ground calls for. TC1 gravel takes a standard ribraft; TC2 takes the engineered raft; TC3 is its own conversation. We match the system to the section and show you the reasoning, not just the invoice.
Start with the plans.
Email the drawings and get one number for the whole start of the build.
Details, then the drawings.
PDFs or photos of the drawings are both fine. Everything sent here lands with Mark himself.