The Groundworks Mess: Why We Bring the Diggers
You look out the window and the garden is just a massive pile of mud. Here is why we bring the diggers in, and why hand-digging ruins patios.
The Bomb Site
Day one on site usually involves tracking a machine in and ripping up the grass. It looks like a mess. Customers see the mud and worry the garden is ruined.
They think the garden is completely ruined.
Hand-Digging Fails
If a gang turns up to dig a driveway with shovels, they are only taking the grass off. Nobody is hand-digging forty tonnes of soil to get to the hard ground. There's no depth for the sub-base. As soon as the winter hits, the ground moves and the paving drops.
Down to Solid Ground
We bring the heavy machinery in because we have to get down to solid earth.
We need to dig out tonnes of muck so we can get a proper, deep stone sub-base in. Whether we are laying a porcelain terrace or putting up a heavy slatted fence, the foundations need to be deep. If we don't dig it out properly with the machine, the paving drops and the fence posts lean over.
Worse Before It Gets Better
A proper job has to look worse before it looks better.
Yes, there will be mud, and yes, the site looks rough for the first week. But once we dig it out properly and that heavy stone goes in, the ground is locked solid. It won't move for twenty years.
Do the Groundworks Right
We bring the machines in to get down to solid ground. That's the only way the job actually stays level.
Stop by the office at 78 Alma Rd, Bournemouth BH9 1AN, UK, or call 07835 390845.
