Foundation Piling in Marchmont

Why Marchmont keeps us busy

Every working week we are somewhere in Marchmont, often within a short walk of the Meadows and Bruntsfield Links. The building stock here has its own character, and the ground beneath it has its own habits. Knowing both is the difference between a fix that lasts and a repair you have to revisit.

Marchmont's red sandstone tenements are tall, heavy and largely well-founded, but blocked common drains in the back greens cause more underpinning calls than the buildings themselves. Drainage CCTV is almost always step one here.

Foundation Piling done properly

Ground investigations show soft made ground for several metres, or the existing strip footing has failed and a deeper solution is the only honest answer. Standard concrete underpinning will not reach competent ground. Going deeper with hand-dug bays is slow, dangerous and expensive.

Mini-piling. A restricted-access rig drills piles to the design depth, the piles are tied into a reinforced cap, and the cap picks up the wall above. Loads end up on solid ground without weeks of excavation.

Three things Marchmont owners get from us

• Local context. We know which streets in Marchmont sit on made ground, which ones drain badly, and which ones have a tree problem. The first visit reflects that.
• Engineer-signed work. Every scheme we put in is signed off by a chartered structural engineer before any tools come out of the van.
• Reports your insurer recognises. Cause, scheme, photographs, costs. The format the loss adjusters in this city already know.