Piling contractors across London and the South

London (HQ) on Tottenham Court Road is our head office, and every London borough is covered.

Three London examples are on the page. At Mill Hill, 15 bored mini piles and a 250mm raft went in for a block of garages, because a shared drain ran too close for driven piles.

In Enfield, 12 screw piles carry a nursery extension beside mature oak trees, and in Bromley eight driven mini piles sit under two bases built for LED video screens.

Our Southampton office is at 15 Rockstone Place. The Hampshire page covers Southampton, Winchester, Eastleigh, Fareham, Portsmouth, Basingstoke and Andover.

The larger of the two Hampshire examples is Signal Box Farm in Burghclere: 36 steel cased mini-piles and a 164.5m² raft slab for a new house, finished in 12 days on ground that alternated between clay and sand to 18m.

The other is a four-day screw pile job for a garden building at Greywell, on gravel and flint over chalk.

The Essex page names Chelmsford, Brentwood, Epping, Saffron Walden, Basildon and Southend, and London (HQ) is the nearest office.

On High Road in Buckhurst Hill we installed 26 sectional flight auger piles in high-plasticity London Clay, then a 92m² raft slab and ground beams, on an infill plot between existing houses. It took about five and a half weeks.

The second Essex example is nine screw piles in boulder clay for a cottage extension at Arkesden, set out around an existing well and finished in four days.

For Surrey the Leatherhead office is closest. The page covers Guildford, Woking, Epsom, Dorking, Reigate, Farnham, Leatherhead and Chertsey.

At Tudor Rose in Chertsey a compact Klemm 708 rig installed 27 CFA piles in gravel with groundwater a metre down, followed by 120 linear metres of ground beams. The job ran for about five weeks.

It is the page to read if your site is wet: every ground beam there was cast in full sideform shuttering because of the loose soils and the high water table.

The Sussex page covers Chichester, Brighton, Worthing, Horsham and Crawley, and all three offices take Sussex enquiries.

On The Avenue in Chichester, 38 CFA piles went into chalk through flint hard enough to wear out two lead augers. The team drilled deeper to steady collapsing bores, added piles where six met refusal, and cast a 116m² raft slab.

The page sets out what the desk data predicted and what the rig met instead.

Reading, Windsor, Bracknell, Newbury and Wokingham are on the Berkshire page, and any of the three offices can be called.

At Riseley we piled a new dairy for Village Maid Cheese. Thirty driven mini-piles at 150mm went into London Clay near mature poplar trees, under a 154m² raft slab, in a four-week programme.

The same page covers Lacuna at Winkfield, Windsor, where 11 screw piles and reinforced concrete ground beams were finished in about six days.

The Dorset page takes in Bournemouth, Poole, Wimborne and Dorchester, and the Southampton office is nearest.

At Lonnen Road in Wimborne, 26 injected SFA piles and 117 linear metres of ground beams were built as one four-week programme, with sonic testing of the piles and cube testing of the concrete.

The Wimborne record gives no soil profile, and the page says so instead of guessing.

Four Buckinghamshire towns are named on the page: Buckingham, Aylesbury, Milton Keynes and High Wycombe. Ring whichever office you like.

The Moreton Road job in Buckingham was 244 CFA piles and over 417 linear metres of beams for a multi-plot housing development, delivered in about ten weeks.

Read it if you are planning several plots at once and want to see piles and beams run as one programme.

Six Kent towns are on the page: New Romney, Maidstone, Sevenoaks, Tonbridge, Dartford and Canterbury. Call any office.

On Lydd Road in New Romney, 64 driven steel cased mini piles and reinforced concrete ground beams went in for four new-build chalet bungalows, on soft alluvial clay over sand.

Driven piles were proposed there because they produce no spoil and need less piling mat than CFA piles, and all 64 piles passed integrity testing.

The Devon page names Exeter, Exmouth, Newton Abbot, Torquay, Paignton, Totnes, Tiverton, Cullompton, Taunton and Slapton.

At Carlane Lodge in Slapton, 30 driven mini-piles and 109 linear metres of ground beams took about two weeks on a sloping site.