Landscaping in Nuneaton, priced in writing before anything starts.
Landscaping in Nuneaton has a cost driver that most towns do not share: on parts of this town, digging is genuinely hard work.
This was a quarrying town. Where rock sits close to the surface, the assumptions behind a normal garden price stop applying. A post hole that takes ten minutes elsewhere can take an hour. A footing for a garden wall may need breaking out rather than digging. A pond, a sunken terrace or anything requiring depth becomes a different job with different plant. None of that makes the work impossible and none of it is a reason to accept a bad garden, but it does mean a price given without putting a spade in the ground is a guess, and we would rather dig a trial hole at the quotation stage than argue about a variation later.
Spoil behaves differently too. Broken rock bulks up and will not go back into the hole it came from, so muck away volumes are higher than the same excavation elsewhere.
The usual rules still apply on top. More than five square metres of hard surfacing at the front needs a permeable material or drainage to a soft area inside your boundary, or planning permission. Every tree in a conservation area is protected regardless of whether an order exists, requiring six weeks written notice before even a heavy prune.
Our landscaping page shows the range of the work.
Four things we commit to on every job, rather than four things we say about ourselves.
Permitted development is not an exemption from Building Regulations. We arrange the Nuneaton & Bedworth Borough Council inspections, meet the inspector on site at each stage and see the work through to sign off. We do not make the application itself, and we will tell you what is needed and when.
Free, and you get it before you commit to us. Party walls and skip licences are raised at quotation stage, not three weeks into the dig.
The same people do the groundworks, the brickwork and the fit out. Nobody hands your job to a subcontractor you have never met.
You get a straight answer rather than a padded price. It costs us a job occasionally and saves you a great deal more.
Process, specification and what moves the price are set out on our landscaping page.
The answers that genuinely differ from one Nuneaton street to the next.
Where a garden needs breaking out rather than digging, the plant changes and so does the noise and the duration. We tell you what that means for your neighbours before we start rather than leaving you to explain a breaker on a Saturday morning.
On the Victorian terraces every tonne is carried through the house, and with heavier spoil that matters more here than most places. We size deliveries and removals to what can actually be moved through the building.
Fence posts are a genuine problem on the harder ground here. Where a post hole cannot be dug to a sensible depth, driving posts is not the answer and neither is a shallow hole with more concrete in it. Bolt down sockets onto a proper base, or a different fence design altogether, will outlast both. We would rather build the fence that stands up than the one that was quickest to quote.
Part of our wider building work in Nuneaton.
Send photographs and a rough brief, or call and talk it through. We will tell you if a job is not right for us.
Southfield Construction (Rugby) Ltd, registered in England and Wales, company 14209138.
