Commercial work is a scheduling problem as much as a surfacing one
On a domestic drive the worst inconvenience is parking on the street for three days. On a commercial site, closing the car park costs you trade every hour it's shut, and a yard that floods in November stops deliveries altogether. So we plan commercial jobs backwards from your operating hours, not forwards from ours.
That usually means phasing — half the car park at a time, with signed routes kept open — or working evenings and weekends. It costs a little more in labour and saves considerably more in lost trading.
The build-up matters more here too. A domestic drive carries a car; a delivery yard carries an 18-tonne rigid on the same three metres of ground every morning. We specify the sub-base depth and surfacing to the actual vehicle loads, and we'd rather tell you the honest number than win the job on a domestic rate you'll pay for twice.
- Sub-base and surfacing specified to your actual vehicle loadings, not a domestic rate
- Phased or out-of-hours programmes so the site keeps trading
- Drainage sized properly — gullies, channel drains and soakaways designed in, not added later
- Licensed to work on the public highway for commercial vehicle crossings
- Line marking, bay layouts, accessible bays and bollards on completion
- Waste carried away under transfer notes to a licensed tip