Our Work Across West Cornwall
Every photograph on this page is a job we built, shot on site by us. No stock images, no supplier catalogues, no exceptions.
Work We Are Happy to Be Judged On
This page is the straightest answer we can give to the only question that matters: what is your work actually like?
The photographs here span the whole trade. Groundworks in progress, with the machinery in the mud where the real decisions get made. Drainage going in before anyone can see it. Bases compacted and shuttered. And the finishes those foundations exist for: resin driveways, porcelain patios, block paving, fencing and finished gardens.
Each photograph is captioned with the job it shows and the town it was taken in, so you can find work like yours, near you. The collection grows as jobs complete, because the camera comes out on every one.
From the First Dig to the Finished Photograph
Driveways in every material we layResin bound drives with crisp block-paved borders, tarmac drives and parking areas, and block paving laid on bases we dug and compacted ourselves. See how we build them on the driveways page.
Patios and porcelainThe jobs the owners are proudest of: porcelain patios, laid the way porcelain demands, and natural stone in sandstone, limestone and granite. The method is on the patios and paving page.
Groundworks, drainage and basesThe photographs clients rarely think to ask for and always end up appreciating: excavations to proper depth, drainage runs going in, concrete pours, and the groundworks that decide whether everything above lasts.
Gardens and boundariesTurf, fencing and whole-garden transformations across the patch, from Helston and Porthleven out to Falmouth, Truro and Newquay.
The kitThe diggers, the dumper and the branded tipper that turn up with the team; the same machines available with an operator through mini digger hire.
Porcelain Paving
Porcelain paving with split-face stone retaining wall and steps.
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Porcelain Paving
Wraparound porcelain patio and path at a bungalow.
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Tarmac Driveways
Newly laid tarmac driveway with concrete kerb edging running up to the garage of a Cornish bungalow.
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Tarmac Driveways
Close view of a freshly laid tarmac driveway surface between new concrete kerbs.
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Block Paving Driveways
Tumbled cobble sett driveway laid through a Cornish granite barn complex, with a linear drainage channel along the barn wall.
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Block Paving Driveways
Charcoal and grey herringbone block paving under a timber carport, with a galvanised linear drainage channel.
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Fencing
Concrete blockwork retaining wall with piers and timber sleeper fencing above, alongside a new kerb line and block paved apron.
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Porcelain Paving
Large format grey porcelain paving laid to a rear terrace, with steps down to the lawn and recessed manhole covers.
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Porcelain Paving
Polished porcelain patio on two levels with split-face stone clad risers.
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Concrete Bases & Hard Standings
Hot tub seated on a riven paved base with a granite sett border, set into the lawn of a Cornish cottage garden.
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Resin Driveways
A buff resin bound drive run the full length to a fenced rear garden.
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Resin Driveways
Buff resin bound curved around the back of a red brick bungalow.
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Patios & Paving
Large format grey sandstone, laid to fall and jointed tight.
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Resin Driveways
A buff resin side path taken right up to the wall, no trims, no gaps.
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Resin Driveways
Silver resin with a charcoal band marking the change in level.
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Resin Driveways
Silver resin laid around a rendered raised bed and kept dead level.
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Porcelain Paving
Cream porcelain running flush to the lawn edge with no lip.
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Resin Driveways
Resin steps with a charcoal diamond inlay set into the landing.
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Resin Driveways
Golden resin meeting the lawn on a clean line beside brickwork.
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Resin Driveways
Silver resin between rendered walls, wide enough to turn in.
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Fencing
Block retaining wall, timber fence and a gate hung square above a block drive.
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Resin Driveways
A silver resin front garden with charcoal edged beds cut into it.
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Patios & Paving
Grey sandstone path with a charcoal border following the lawn.
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Resin Driveways
Silver resin with a charcoal border sweeping round to the road.
View Resin DrivewaysWe own the machines, so the job never waits on a hire date
Most of what holds a groundworks job up is waiting: waiting on plant, waiting on the groundworker, waiting on whoever lays the surface. We run our own diggers and dumpers and both owners are ticketed to operate them, Aaron on 360 excavators above ten tonnes and Mike below, with street works qualifications between them. That is why a drive can go from the first cut to the finished surface without a second firm being booked in.
The whole fleet, owned outright: three tippers and the van.
The Mitsubishi Canter tipper, with the Isuzus behind.
HW Contractors van in full Hunt and Wherry livery.
HW Contractors Isuzu tipper truck on site.
Front of the HW Contractors Isuzu tipper with Hunt and Wherry logo.
The Transformations We Do It For
Ask Aaron and Mike which jobs they are proudest of and the answer never changes: resin driveways and porcelain patios. Their words, not ours: it is the transformation that makes those projects stand out, and the customer's reaction, that "wow" when they see the finished job.
That is what this page really documents. Tired concrete becoming a seamless resin drive. A patchy lawn becoming a porcelain terrace with falls that shed Cornish rain. A muddy site becoming a level, drained, buildable plot.
The resin work among them carries a 10-year product guarantee, transferable to a new owner if the property is sold, because work worth photographing is work worth standing behind.
Resin, porcelain, block paving and tarmac, laid across west Cornwall by the two owners and the same small team. Drag any slider to see the same ground before we started and on the day we finished. Every base underneath was dug, drained and compacted by us, which is the reason they still look like this.
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Porthleven, Cornwall
Phone: 07886 070245
Email: info@hwcontractors.co.uk
Hours: Monday to Friday, 8am to 5pm