Builders in Stockport – Manchester – Cheshire – Tameside – and throughout the North West

Stockport Designs and Build is a well established building company offering all aspects of Groundwork in Manchester, Stockport and throughout the North West.

What do we do on a standard house?

  • Create entry into and clear site
  • Lay hard base for access, deliveries and site storage
  • Strip topsoil and store for reuse when applicable
  • Set out house/structure to a suitably positioned profile
  • Mark out centre line of the dig
  • Excavate foundation trenches to indicated or required depth
  • Load spoil into dumpers for on-site storage/load spoil into tipper lorries for disposal off site
  • Clean and bottom out trenches
  • Position level pegs to indicate top of concrete
  • Pour and lay footings concrete
  • Lay foundation blockwork to dpc level putting in cranked ventilators, necessary drainage exit lintels and/or sleeving for services (sometimes done by bricklayers)
  • Level out subsoil in oversite
  • Backfill trenches outside the building
  • Fill cavities with lean-mix concrete
  • Position floor beams on damp proof course
  • Fill and consolidate hardcore to oversite
  • Sand blind hardcore
  • Lay damp-proof membrane
  • Position below-slab insulation
  • Lay further damp-proof membrane
  • Lay oversite concrete
  • Excavate trenches for foul and surfacewater drainage
  • Lay drainage runs on pea shingle bringing upstands to positions though oversite
  • Haunch over all below-ground drainage in pea shingle
  • Build all manholes
  • Connect foul drainage to foul sewer/the boundary for road connection by others/install septic tank/cesspool/mini sewage treatment plant. Install and lay any weeper drainage or outlets
  • Construct soakaways and connect surface water drains
  • Backfill all drainage trenches
  • Excavate all service trenches and backfill when supplies are laid
  • SCarry out specified and agreed hard and soft landscaping and fencing
  • Lay driveways, pathways and patios to agreed specification

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