Groundworks & civil engineering · Wiltshire

Get the ground right.

A Wiltshire team with a focus on health and safety and a passion for quality. Foundations, drainage, driveways and the rest of what goes in before the build.

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Foundations / Drainage / Driveways & hardstanding / Landscaping

A drone view straight down on a house foundation: trenches and blockwork walls laid out on bare ground, a teal excavator working beside them and a length of orange drain pipe on the soil. — Foundations set out and dug, from above.

Most of what we do ends up buried under a floor, a drive or a lawn. It only gets one go at being right.

A finished brick house with a dark tiled roof and a garage door, standing on bare ground. — A finished house. The groundwork is underneath.

Wiltshire based: A local team, working out of Swindon.
Health and safety: The first thing BMK says about itself.
A passion for quality: Straight trenches, clean kerb lines, tidy finishes. Judge it by the work below.

01Order of work−0.45 m

From first dig
to final kerb.

Groundworks happen in a sequence. This is BMK’s own photography, in the order a build needs it.

A teal tracked excavator working on open ground with trees behind. — Excavator at work on site.

Dig

Clearing the plot and digging it out to the right levels.

Site clearance
Excavation
Levels

Foundations

Trenches set out, dug and built up to the drawings.

Set-out
Trench foundations
Blockwork

Looking down a long straight trench in the ground, with blue spray-paint set-out marks beside it. — A trench dug and sprayed with set-out marks.

Foundation blockwork walls enclosing rooms on a building plot, with an excavator and a stack of materials behind. — Foundation walls taking shape.

Rows of precast concrete beams and blocks forming a floor, laid on a blockwork wall. — Beam and block floor.

Floors

Beam and block floors, ready for what goes on top.

Beam & block
Ground floors

Close view of a beam and block floor edge, with the beams resting on the block wall. — Close up, beams on the block wall.

Drainage

Below-ground drainage, from simple pipe runs to tanks and treatment plants.

Pipe runs
Tanks
Treatment plants

A white tank with a green lid set into the ground beside a fence, with an orange pipe running to it. — Tank set in the ground, pipework run to it.

Two lengths of black corrugated drainage pipe lying on stony ground. — Drainage pipe on site.

Looking down into an underground treatment plant with black rotating discs and a spirit level across the top. — Inside a treatment plant.

Hardstanding

Driveways, car parks and kerbing, finished with a steady hand.

Tarmac
Kerbing
Paving
Line marking

A freshly laid tarmac car park with new close-boarded fencing along its edge and trees behind. — A recent car park, completed.

An orange mini excavator beside newly laid kerb stones and buff paving slabs. — Kerbs and paving going in.

A newly built red-brick outdoor kitchen in a garden, with grey worktop slabs and autumn trees behind. — A brick outdoor kitchen, built in a garden.

Finishing

Brickwork, fencing and landscaping, to leave the plot ready to use.

Brickwork
Fencing
Turf & landscaping

A freshly laid square of turf in a fenced garden, with a stone edge and a hanging egg chair. — New turf, laid.

02Standards−1.00 m

Safe on site.
Right in the ground.

Health & safety

It is the first thing BMK says about itself. In the photos that looks like hi-vis, and a barrier round an open excavation.

Quality

Nobody sees groundwork once it is finished, which is exactly why it has to be right: foundations set out properly, kerbs that run true, a surface you can trust.

Three workers in hi-vis laying kerb stones and paving beside a new timber fence. — Crew in hi-vis, laying kerbs and paving.

A deep excavation in the ground with a red and white safety barrier standing beside it. — Barrier round an open excavation.

03What a customer says−1.80 m

Customer review

Absolutely on the money when it came to the work, so hard working. The finished landscaping is exactly what we asked for.

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We highly recommend BMK Groundworks. From initial contact, quote, date set, communication the whole way, work carried out to our garden was in blistering summer heatwave over three days and the boys were magnificent! Polite, respectful, engaging, helpful, professional but most of all, absolutely on the money when it came to the work, so hard working. The finished landscaping is exactly what we asked for with guidance offered when needed and we are over the moon with a garden we can enjoy, thank you from the bottom of our hearts. BMK went above and beyond and you honestly won’t be disappointed with the boys.

04Enquiries−2.40 m

Tell us about the plot.

Message on WhatsApp or ring. Say where the job is and what is going in. Photos, sketches and plans are all welcome.

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