Carthy ContractingSurfacing & Groundworks

Family run · Swillington, Leeds

We surface the road
outside your house.
Yours is the easy bit.

Carthy Contracting is a groundworks and surfacing contractor working on council roads, car parks and private estates across Yorkshire. Your driveway gets the same crew, the same machines and the same base.

Get a free quote Call 0113 286 9908

★★★★★ 4.9 from 40 Google reviews

4.9★Google rating

40Google reviews

NRSWAHighway certified

5Trade accreditations

What makes us different

We own our tarmac machines. Most firms hire theirs.

Ask any driveway company whose machine is turning up on the day. Most of them are hiring plant by the week, or subbing the surfacing out to a gang they met last month. We run our own mini and midi tarmac laying machines, and our own rollers, with our own operators on them.

The date is ours to set. No waiting on a hire yard or a subcontractor's diary before your drive gets laid.
Machine laid, not barrowed and raked. A paver gives an even mat and a consistent depth across the whole surface.
Mini and midi sizes. Small enough for a domestic drive and a tight side access, big enough for a car park.
The same operators every time. The men on the machine are ours, so the standard does not change job to job.

Carthy Contracting roller compacting a newly laid tarmac access road — Our roller, our operator

Finished tarmac private access road laid by Carthy Contracting — Finished the same day

What we do

Groundworks first, surfacing second

We are a groundworks contractor that surfaces, not a paving gang that digs. Everything below is work we do all week for councils, developers and commercial clients, and the same crews do the domestic jobs.

Tarmac driveway with block paved edge course at a semi detached house

Tarmac Driveways

Machine laid and rolled hot on a properly dug base, finished with a block or kerb edge course. The surface most Yorkshire drives should have.

New tarmac access road and driveway on a residential development

Access Roads & Estates

Shared drives, private lanes and full residential development access, built to carry delivery lorries rather than just a family car.

Tarmac parking court on a Harrogate residential development

Car Parks & Commercial

Surfacing, kerbing, drainage and bay marking for councils, commercial sites and parking courts. Priced and programmed properly.

Highway hatch markings on a newly surfaced adopted road

Highway & Streetworks

NRSWA certified, so we can work on the adopted public highway. Crossings, dropped kerbs and reinstatements done legally, by us.

Paved terrace and retaining brickwork on a Leeds waterside development

Patios & Hard Landscaping

Paved terraces, retaining brickwork, steps and levels. Set out and built off the same base detail as everything else we lay.

Tarmac yard surfacing laid around existing drainage gullies

Drainage & Groundworks

Excavation, levels, gullies, channel drains and soakaways. The water is dealt with before a single tonne of tarmac goes down.

Checked, audited and certified Not badges we bought. Schemes that audit us, and the qualification that lets us work on a public road.

CHASHealth & safety

CSCSCarded operatives

ConstructionlinePre-qualified

SafeContractorAudited

CPCSPlant operators

How we build it

The part you never see is the part we are known for

A driveway does not fail at the surface. It fails underneath, months later, because somebody saved a day on the digging. Groundworks is our first trade, so this is where our job actually starts.

L 01
Dig out to formation
The old surface and the soft ground beneath it come out and go on the wagon. Nothing gets raked to the side and buried under your new drive.
L 02
Formation checked and consolidated
We look at what we have actually dug down to before anything goes back in. Soft spots get dug deeper, not covered over and hoped for.
L 03
Sub-base, compacted in layers
Stone laid and rolled in layers rather than tipped in one thick lift. This is the layer that carries the load, and it is built to the depth the job needs.
L 04
Edges, kerbs and drainage
Edge restraints and kerbs set and haunched, gullies and channels tied in, and falls set so the water runs where it should before we surface.
L 05
Surface course, machine laid
Tarmac laid hot through our own paver for an even mat, then rolled while it is still up to temperature. Depth to suit the traffic it will take.
L 06
Swept, checked and handed over
Site cleared, arisings taken away and the finished surface walked with you before the wagons leave.

Tarmac laid to falls around a manhole cover and gully in a rear yard, Sheffield — **Levels, falls and ironwork, Sheffield** A rear yard surfaced around existing gullies and covers. The manhole and the drainage grate finish flush with the tarmac and the falls run to them, which is groundworks work rather than surfacing work.

Both trades on one ticket. Because we do the groundworks and the surfacing ourselves, there is nobody to blame when the levels are wrong, and nobody waiting on somebody else to finish before they can start.

Our work

Laid across Yorkshire, photographed on the job

Every photograph below is our own work on a real site. Harrogate, Leeds and Sheffield.

Tarmac parking court between new stone and brick houses in Harrogate — **Parking court, residential development**Harrogate

Newly surfaced back lane with fresh white lining beside a stone wall — **Rear access lane**Harrogate

Paved waterside terrace beside the river in central Leeds — **Waterside terrace**Central Leeds

New tarmac driveway between fencing and a stone wall — **Private drive**Harrogate

Yellow hatch markings on a newly surfaced adopted access road — **Hatched access, adopted road**NRSWA work

Large sweeping tarmac private driveway with a Carthy Contracting van — **Sweeping private driveway**Machine laid

Paved terrace with pergola and retaining brickwork, Leeds — **Terrace and retaining walls**Central Leeds

Bay marked tarmac parking area on a residential development — **Marked parking bays**Harrogate

Tarmac laid up to a doorway around drainage gullies and covers — **Yard surfacing to falls**Sheffield

Roller compacting new tarmac on a private access road — **Rolling the surface course**Our own plant

Finished tarmac driveway with block paved edging at a family home — **Domestic driveway**Block edged

4.9★

★★★★★

From 40 Google reviews

Judge us on the record

Forty households and clients have written it down

We would rather you read the reviews on our Google profile in full than take a hand-picked line or two from us. Forty of them, averaging 4.9, written after we had packed up and gone. That is the number worth judging any contractor on, and it is a public one you can check before you ring anybody.

Where we work

Leeds, Harrogate, Sheffield and across Yorkshire

We work out of Astley Lane Industrial Estate in Swillington, which puts most of West and North Yorkshire inside an hour with the plant on the trailer. Marked towns are ones you can see in our gallery above.

LeedsHarrogateSheffield WakefieldGarforthCastleford PontefractWetherbyOtley BradfordRothwellMorley KnaresboroughBarnsleyYork

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Tell us about the job

We will come out, look at what is there, take the levels and give you a written price. No charge and no obligation, whether it is a front drive, an access road or a car park.

Phone0113 286 9908

Emailinfo@carthycontracting.co.uk

YardUnit 8b, Astley Lane Industrial Estate, Swillington, Leeds

CompanyCarthy Contracting Ltd, registered in England no. 11985574

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We surface the roadoutside your house.Yours is the easy bit.