Surfacing in Kendal and the South Lakes.
Kendal anchors the south of our patch: an hour from the yard down the A6 or the M6, and a town whose limestone streets, business parks and surrounding villages keep surfacing crews properly tested.
The South Lakes bring a particular mix of work. Business parks and industrial estates south of the town need car parks and yards that shrug off wagon traffic. The villages between Kendal and the lakes need driveways and lanes that cope with gradients, gateways and serious rainfall. Both are bread and butter for a firm that builds highway pavements.
Our crews are regularly through Kendal on contract work across the south of the county, which is exactly what makes smaller local jobs practical: a driveway or farm entrance slots into a programme that is already passing, rather than paying to mobilise from scratch.
Drainage is usually the difference between a surface that lasts in this part of Cumbria and one that fails at the first hard winter. Falls, channels and gullies are designed in before the first load of stone arrives, and the finished levels are checked, not eyeballed.
What we do in Kendal
Fair questions
Do you really cover Kendal from Appleby?
Yes. It is about an hour by wagon and our programmes regularly run through the South Lakes, so Kendal work is planned rather than exceptional.
Can you handle steep or awkward drives?
Gradients, tight gateways and stepped drives are common in the South Lakes. Machine-laying where access allows and hand-laying where it does not, with the construction underneath sized for the slope.
Do you supply materials in the Kendal area?
Planings, sub-base and stone can be delivered by our own wagons across the South Lakes. Tell us tonnage and location and we will price the load plainly.