A family firm, still doing it the long way round
J&M Groundworks has been laying driveways, patios and gardens around Mansfield for over twenty years. Same family, same trucks in the same yard, and a diary that still fills mostly on recommendation.
We're not the cheapest quote you'll get and we've never pretended to be. What we are is the firm that digs to depth, compacts in layers, haunches the edgings and comes back if something isn't right.
By the numbers
- 20+
- YEARS TRADING
- 1400+
- JOBS COMPLETED
- 4.9
- GOOGLE RATING
- 9.8
- CHECKATRADE SCORE
- 5 yr
- GUARANTEE
Twenty years of learning what fails
We started out doing groundworks for other builders, which is the best education there is in what goes wrong later. When you've dug out enough two-year-old driveways to fix somebody else's sub-base, you stop being tempted to save a load of stone on your own.
Since then we've laid well over a thousand drives and gardens across Mansfield, Ashfield, Sherwood and up towards Worksop. Most of our work now comes from people who've seen a job we've done down the road, or from customers we did work for a decade ago ringing back about the garden.
We've deliberately stayed a size where the person who quotes your job is on site while it's being built. There's no sales team, no franchise fee loaded onto your price, and nobody knocking on your door.
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We build from the bottom up
Dig to depth, Type 1 in compacted layers, edgings haunched in concrete. The surface is the last 20% of the job and the only part you'll ever see.
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The quoter is on site
Whoever prices your job is there while it's built. No handover to a crew who've never seen the drawing and no phone tag between office and site.
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Fixed prices in writing
The number on the quote is the number on the invoice. If we hit something genuinely unforeseen — a buried slab, a live drain — we stop and talk to you before spending your money.
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We leave it clean
Spoil carted away the same week, road swept, blocks brushed, and we walk the job with you before the van moves off the drive.
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You get us on the phone
One number, answered by the people doing the work. Mon–Sat, 8am–6pm, and we'll always tell you honestly when we can start.
The paperwork, since you should ask
Ask any driveway firm for these four things before you take a quote. If they can't produce them, that tells you what you need to know.
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Fully insured
Public liability cover in place and a certificate we'll email you with the quote if you want to see it.
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Highway licensed
Licensed to work on the public footway for domestic and commercial dropped kerbs and vehicle crossings.
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Independently reviewed
Checkatrade 9.8/10, MyBuilder verified and 4.9 on Google — all reviews left by customers, not us.
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Licensed waste carrier
Spoil and old surfacing taken to a licensed tip with transfer notes, not dumped down a lane.
4.9 on Google
What you won't get from us
- A doorstep salesman, a "today only" discount or a price that drops when you say no
- A deposit before we've even given you a fixed quote
- Old surfacing buried under the new one to save on cart-away
- Spot-bedded slabs, un-haunched edgings or a sub-base you could dig with a trowel
- A subcontracted crew you've never met turning up on day one