From the first cut of the digger to the finished surface, one firm does the lot. Groundworks, driveways, patios and landscaping across West Cornwall, built properly from the ground up by the people who own the firm.
HW Contractors is Aaron Hunt and Mike Wherry: two Cornish tradesmen who each built their own business and their own name before joining forces. Aaron brings ten years of drive and modern methods. Mike brings thirty years of hands-on knowledge, most of it earned on driveways and patios around Helston.
Between them, 40 years of combined experience covers every stage of a job. The dig, the drainage, the base, and the finish you actually see. Watch the film to meet the people who will be on your job.
Every job starts with what is under the surface. Because we dig, drain and prepare the ground ourselves, we take your project from bare earth to a finished surface without handing any of it to another firm.
Site clearance, excavation, drainage, foundations and concrete bases. The unseen work that decides whether everything above it lasts.
Groundworks
Resin, tarmac, block paving, gravel and concrete, compared honestly and built on a base we prepared ourselves.
Driveways
Resin bound and resin bonded surfacing, the finish we are best known for and the one that transforms a frontage overnight.
Resin driveways
Drives, parking areas, yards and tracks. Winter-ready surfacing laid on a properly built base.
Tarmac driveways
Sandstone, limestone, granite, porcelain and block paving, designed and laid with the falls and drainage done right.
Patios and paving
Garden and boundary fencing with posts set properly for Cornish weather, including the groundwork other fencers leave to someone else.
Fencing
Whole-garden transformations, levels, turf and hard landscaping, planned with you and built by the same team that digs the ground.
Landscaping and garden design
Our machines with our qualified operators, by the day, for the jobs where you just need the digging done.
Mini digger hireSee everything we do on our services page.
The proof is on driveways, patios and building sites across West Cornwall. Recent work spans resin driveways and porcelain patios that transformed the front and back of family homes, full groundworks packages for extensions and new builds, and drainage that fixed gardens that flooded every winter.
Every photograph on this site is our own work, photographed on the job. See more of it on our work page.
Tumbled cobble sett driveway laid through a Cornish granite barn complex, with a linear drainage channel along the barn wall.
View Block Paving Driveways
Polished porcelain patio on two levels with split-face stone clad risers.
View Porcelain Paving
A silver resin front garden with charcoal edged beds cut into it.
View Resin Driveways
Landscaped garden at dusk with raised patio, white gravel and festoon lighting.
View Landscaping & Garden Design
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.
Our reviews are written by real customers on Google, and we would rather you read their words than ours. Every one is on a platform we cannot edit, which is exactly how it should be. See them all on our reviews page.
Based on 4 Google reviews
Plus 12 five-star Facebook reviews from Mike's side of the business, before the two firms joined.
Commenting as the owner of this property I can honestly say that Aaron was a pleasure to work with. Efficient, reliable, extremely hardworking, on schedule, amazing quality and just an all round lovely guy! Thank you Aaron! You can see the almost (steps leading up to the tub yet to be added as a finishing touch) finished project on the Boutique Retreats website: Kilter House, Coverack
Read more on GoogleWould definitely recommend. Our driveway was a mismatch of 3 different sections of gravel, some old concrete and a step. In two days he has completely overhauled it and it looks amazing. Very fast worker, polite and professional and reasonably priced as well. You won’t be disappointed by Michael’s team at all!
Read more on FacebookAaron laid us a wonderful patio for our back garden. From the start he was highly professional and courteous. He sat with us to discuss the best, most cost efficient options to get us exactly what we imagined. Aaron was very reliable and his after care has been exceptional ensuring he delivers the highest quality for his clients. Highly recommended!
Read more on GoogleMike and his son did a fantastic job on our sandstone patio. They provided a competitive quote and had expert knowledge. The job itself was completed to a very high standard. We are very happy with it. I highly recommend. Thank you again for the fantastic work.
Read more on FacebookCommenting as the owner of this property I can honestly say that Aaron was a pleasure to work with. Efficient, reliable, extremely hardworking, on schedule, amazing quality and just an all round lovely guy! Thank you Aaron! You can see the almost (steps leading up to the tub yet to be added as a finishing touch) finished project on the Boutique Retreats website: Kilter House, Coverack
Read more on GoogleWould definitely recommend. Our driveway was a mismatch of 3 different sections of gravel, some old concrete and a step. In two days he has completely overhauled it and it looks amazing. Very fast worker, polite and professional and reasonably priced as well. You won’t be disappointed by Michael’s team at all!
Read more on FacebookAaron laid us a wonderful patio for our back garden. From the start he was highly professional and courteous. He sat with us to discuss the best, most cost efficient options to get us exactly what we imagined. Aaron was very reliable and his after care has been exceptional ensuring he delivers the highest quality for his clients. Highly recommended!
Read more on GoogleMike and his son did a fantastic job on our sandstone patio. They provided a competitive quote and had expert knowledge. The job itself was completed to a very high standard. We are very happy with it. I highly recommend. Thank you again for the fantastic work.
Read more on FacebookReally happy with the work from Aaron Hunt Groundworks. Aaron and his team were super easy to deal with—friendly, reliable, and clearly know what they’re doing. They turned up on time, got stuck in, and made sure everything was done properly with a great finish. They kept the place tidy and checked in with us throughout the job to make sure we were happy. No fuss, no stress—just solid, professional work. Would definitely recommend them to anyone needing groundwork done. Top team!
Read more on GoogleWe had been waiting for along time for this small bit of garden to be finished…the original person we had booked just didn’t work out in the end. We booked Sunset Surfacing We are so pleased with the work and can’t wait for the summer to arrive. They were clean, tidy and professional…thank you
Read more on FacebookExtremely happy with my new patio. It wasn’t the most straight forward to lay but Aaron managed to get the finish I wanted and was completely flexible and accommodating to make it happen for our time lines. Would highly recommend.
Read more on GoogleReally happy with the work from Aaron Hunt Groundworks. Aaron and his team were super easy to deal with—friendly, reliable, and clearly know what they’re doing. They turned up on time, got stuck in, and made sure everything was done properly with a great finish. They kept the place tidy and checked in with us throughout the job to make sure we were happy. No fuss, no stress—just solid, professional work. Would definitely recommend them to anyone needing groundwork done. Top team!
Read more on GoogleWe had been waiting for along time for this small bit of garden to be finished…the original person we had booked just didn’t work out in the end. We booked Sunset Surfacing We are so pleased with the work and can’t wait for the summer to arrive. They were clean, tidy and professional…thank you
Read more on FacebookExtremely happy with my new patio. It wasn’t the most straight forward to lay but Aaron managed to get the finish I wanted and was completely flexible and accommodating to make it happen for our time lines. Would highly recommend.
Read more on GoogleThe dig and the finish, one firmMost surfacing failures start in the ground. We do the excavation, drainage and base ourselves, then lay the surface on ground we trust, so there is no gap between trades and no one else to blame.
An owner on every jobAaron or Mike prices your job, and one of them is on the tools when it is built. You deal with the person doing the work, not an office.
Qualified for the serious workCPCS 360 excavator tickets above and below 10 tonnes, CSCS cards, dumper tickets, and Street Works qualifications held between the two owners. The paperwork behind the plant.
Resin drives guaranteed for ten yearsEvery resin surface we lay carries a 10-year product guarantee. If you sell, the new owner keeps the cover.
Local, and staying localBased in Porthleven, working from the Lizard to Newquay. In Cornwall your reputation is everything, and ours is built one town at a time.
Every resin surface we lay carries a 10-year product guarantee, and it is transferable to a new owner if the property is sold. That is not small print, it is how we price and build every resin drive: on the assumption that we will stand behind it for the next decade.
If we would not guarantee it, we do not build it that way. It is the simplest promise we can make, and the strongest.
Call us on 07886 070245, or send the form with a rough idea of the job and where you are.
Aaron or Mike comes out, walks the job with you, and brings photographs of previous work and material samples so you can choose against your own house, not a screen.
The work, the specification and the price, in writing, before anything starts.
Excavation, drainage and base preparation, done by us with our own machinery.
Resin, tarmac, paving, fencing or turf, laid by the same team that built the ground under it.
A tidy site, a walk-through of the finished job, and on resin work, your 10-year transferable product guarantee.
We are based in Porthleven and work across the west of the county. Helston is home ground, where Mike has spent decades building driveways and patios, and the patch runs through Porthleven, Mullion, Penzance, Camborne, Redruth, Falmouth, Truro, St Ives and Newquay, along with the villages between them.
See every town on our areas page.
Tell us what you are planning and we will come and look at it properly. The visit and the quote are free, and the advice is honest either way.
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Porthleven, Cornwall
Phone: 07886 070245
Email: info@hwcontractors.co.uk
Hours: Monday to Friday, 8am to 5pm