Wigan and West Lancashire
Groundworks and plant hire in Wigan
We are about 40 minutes from Wigan, straight down the M58. Diggers with a ticketed driver, septic tanks and treatment plants, and groundworks for builders across Wigan and Skelmersdale.
What we do in Wigan
- Digger and driver hire
From a 1 tonne micro digger up to 25 tonne excavators, plus telehandlers and dumpers, all with a CPCS or NPORS ticketed driver. From £350 a day plus fuel and delivery.
- Septic tanks
Installed, replaced and repaired for homes and farms that are not on the mains sewer.
- Sewage treatment plants
Klargester, Marsh, Tricel, Graf, WPL and Vortex plants installed.
- Groundworks for builders
Foundations, slabs, drainage and site clearance for builders and developers.
- Site clearance
Plots cleared and stripped, and the muck taken away on our grab lorries.
- Drainage
New drains, land drains and soakaways, and collapsed drains replaced.
Peat and wet ground round Skelmersdale
Around Skelmersdale and the old mosslands, a lot of the ground is peat: soft, wet, and full of water most of the year. Dig a hole for a septic tank or treatment plant and it fills with water as you go.
An empty tank sat in wet ground wants to float, the same way an empty boat does. So we set it in a concrete surround that holds it down, following the maker's instructions for wet ground. Done wrong, the tank lifts and cracks the pipes.
Off the mains sewer
Plenty of farms and houses between Wigan, Parbold and Skelmersdale drain to a septic tank. Many of those tanks are old and empty into a ditch or stream, which the General Binding Rules (the Environment Agency's rules for small sewage systems) no longer allow.
The usual fix is a new treatment plant, or a new drainage field so the tank empties into the ground instead. We do the percolation test (a test of how fast water soaks into your ground) to work out which.
A Wigan job
Telehandler and driver, Standish
A telehandler, a forklift with a long reach arm, with a ticketed driver for six weeks on a house build. It lifted blocks and bricks up to the scaffold and moved materials round the site, starting at 7:30 every day.
Where we work round Wigan
Wigan, Standish, Orrell, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Hindley, Skelmersdale, Upholland, Billinge, Parbold and Haydock, and on to Westhoughton, Leigh, Horwich and Bolton.
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Tell us about your Wigan job
Phone lines open Monday to Friday 8am to 5pm, Saturday 8am to 1pm. WhatsApp photos of the job any time, we reply in office hours.