Earthworks and farm contractors in Te Awamutu
House pads and driveways for new builds and lifestyle blocks, and races, crossings and drainage on the dairy farms between Te Awamutu, Kihikihi and Pirongia. About an hour from our yard.
Te Awamutu is a dairy town with a fast growing residential edge and lifestyle blocks running out to the Pirongia foothills. The catch around here is peat in the low ground, which changes how a pad or a driveway has to be built.
New builds, lifestyle blocks and wet ground
Around Te Awamutu the work is house pads and driveways for the new builds and lifestyle blocks, and farm earthworks on the dairy country around them, with drainage a bigger part of both than most people expect.
House pads and site works
Building platforms for builders and lifestyle block owners around Te Awamutu, Kihikihi and Ōhaupō, with the ground checked for peat before we price it.
Farm earthworks
Races, tracks, feed pads and effluent work on the dairy farms around the town, planned around milking and built to shed water.
Drainage and driveways
Farm drainage, table drains and culverts on wet ground, and rural driveways formed and drained properly before the metal goes on.
Working around Te Awamutu
Te Awamutu sits between the Waikato River and Mount Pirongia, on a mix of volcanic ash soils on the rolling ground and peat in the low lying basins, particularly around Ōhaupō and towards Hamilton. The ash country is straightforward to build on. The peat is not: it shrinks, it holds water, and it will not carry a house pad, a driveway or a race without being dug out and replaced or built around.
So the first thing we do on a Te Awamutu job is work out which ground you are on. On the farms that shapes the drainage and the race construction. On new builds it shapes the pad, and it is the difference between a quote that holds and a variation later.
Te Awamutu is in the Waipā District, so consents and engineering sign-off go through Waipā District Council. The town is growing, and a lot of our work here is for builders on new sections and for lifestyle block owners on the roads out towards Pirongia and Kihikihi.
- House pads and site works for new builds in town and on lifestyle blocks
- Races, tracks, feed pads and effluent work on the dairy farms
- Drainage, table drains and culverts on peat and wet ground
- Driveways and entranceways for rural properties
What we take on
Civil construction is the core of it. Around that we do the earthworks, drainage and farm work that keeps a site moving.
Questions we get from around here
The things people around Te Awamutu ask us before a job starts.
Usually the geotech report will say, and if there is not one we can tell fairly quickly with a test hole. We check before we price a pad, because peat changes the job.
Yes. All three are part of our normal Te Awamutu run, along with the lifestyle blocks and farms in between.
Usually. Wet ground is normally a high water table or water coming from uphill with no way out. Subsoil drainage and a proper outlet fixes most of it, and we walk it with you first to work out which it is.
Still have questions?
Give Scott a call, or send the form and we will come and look at the job.
Contact us
Tell us what you are dealing with and we will come and size it up.