We move the ground so your slab lands on time

A sand pad is a compacted platform of clean fill sand built up to your finished floor level, sitting under the slab. It gives the slab a uniform, engineered surface to bear on rather than whatever mix of soils happens to be on the lot. Perth's sandy soils suit this method particularly well, which is why sand pads are the standard approach across the metro area.

There's no honest flat rate, because cost is driven by things that vary lot to lot: the size of the block, how much fall there is across it, how much fill has to be imported to reach your floor level, how much material has to be carted off, and how tight the access is. A flat estate lot needing a shallow pad sits at one end; a sloping infill block needing retaining and a deep cut sits at the other. Send us the plans and your target floor level and we'll give you a fixed price rather than a range.

Most standard residential pads are a one to two day operation on site once we mobilise. Bigger cuts, multi-unit developments and lots needing large volumes of imported fill take longer. The bigger variable is usually scheduling rather than the work itself, so tell us the pour date you're protecting and we'll be straight with you about whether we can hit it.

We supply and cart clean fill sand ourselves, on our own trucks. That's deliberate — it means pad construction isn't held up waiting on a third-party cartage contractor's schedule, and there's one company accountable for the material and the workmanship rather than two pointing at each other.

AS 3798 is the Australian Standard covering the guidelines for earthworks on commercial and residential developments — including how fill should be placed and compacted. It matters because compaction is the part nobody can inspect once the slab is down. Poorly compacted fill can settle unevenly and crack a slab years later. We build pads with reference to AS 3798 and your engineer's specification, and supply compaction documentation at handover.

Yes — a good share of our work is infill lots between established homes, benched cuts on sloping ground, and multi-pad developments with narrow access. Our fleet is deliberately sized for Perth suburban blocks rather than mine sites, so we can get in, work around neighbours and fences, and leave the street as we found it.

The full Perth metropolitan area, from our depot in Wattleup. The southern and south-eastern corridors are closest to home — Cockburn, Baldivis, Byford, Hammond Park and surrounds — and we regularly work north through the Swan Valley estates including Henley Brook and Brabham.