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Drilling for Ground Source Heat Pumps, Pencoys School, Cornwall

The Services we offer include :

  • Mini Piling and Underpinning Foundations
  • Rock Anchors/Bolts and Soil Nailing
  • Ground Stabilisation, shaft capping and mining remediation.
  • Concrete Coring and Cutting
  • Mineral exploration and evaluation drilling, on surface and underground.
  • Site Investigation Drilling
  • Mining and Tunnelling of shafts and small headings.
  • Specialised drilling in tunnels and dam galleries etc.
  • Installation of Vertical and Horizontal Collectors for Ground Source Heat Pumps.
  • Safe Access to Confined Spaces

Carnon Contracting is a Mining / Civil Engineering, and specialist drilling and Piling company formed in 1988 to market the expertise of the workforce of Cornwall’s last tin mines, South Crofty and Wheal Jane.

Following the closure of South Crofty Mine in 1998 a management buy out of the contracting arm led to the formation of the Wheal Jane Group of Companies including Wheal Jane Enterprises Ltd t/a Carnon Contracting.

Since that time we have diversified into a number of areas related to our original mining background and have developed specialist drilling expertise .
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LATEST NEWS

May 9th 2008
Ground Source Heat Pump:- Polzeath
Carnon Contracting have been awarded the contract to drill two Ground Source Heat Pump Boreholes for a new ecohome at Polzeath in Cornwall. The design for the project is being provided by Capture Energy and the main Contractor is Ginn Construction. The heat pumps are being supplied by[...]
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May 1st 2008
Camborne Link Road Site Investigation
Carnon contracting are currently drilling site investigation boreholes in Pool, Cornwall for Cornwall County Council in respect of the possibility of mine workings along the route of the proposed new link road. Design is being provided by Carillion and Cornwall County Council. The Principle Contractors are Carnon Contracting.[...]
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April 3rd 2008
Polzeath Cornwall:- Soil Nailing, Shotcreting and Ground Anchoring
Carnon Contracting have recently completed a scheme to stabilise the face of an excavation for a new Ecohouse in Polzeath in Cornwall. The rocks comprised the installation of Soil Nails and Rock Anchors and the construction of a reinforced sprayed[...]
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March 18th 2008
Ground Source Heat Boreholes, Mullion, Cornwall
Carnon Contracting have completed drilling boreholes for Ground Source Heat Pumps in Mullion in Cornwall. A total of 12 no. 100m boreholes were drilled for Aquasource and ROK. The loops and Grout were supplied by[...]
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March 11th 2008
Emergency Shotcreting and Bolting Works on the Camel Trail
Carnon Contracting have been contracted to undertake emergency Shotcreting and Bolting works to stabilise a section of former Railway cutting on the Camel Trail, Nr Wadebridge in Cornwall.[...]
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February 26th 2008
Piling and Anchoring in Gunnislake
Carnon Contracting are currently undertaking a piling and rock anchoring project in Gunnislake in Cornwall for RYEARCH Specialist Contractors. The works are complicated by the proximity of unstable mine workings in the area.[...]
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February 5th 2008
Ground Anchor/ Soil Nailing Contract Completed
Carnon Contracting have completed a Ground Anchor/ Soil Nailing contract in Cornwall. It comprised the installation of Stainless UK Grip bar anchors/Soild Nails and piles to remediate a failed retaining wall in Falmouth. The site had access issues and the drilling[...]
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January 29th 2008
Rock Anchoring and Piling Contract Awarded at Gunnislake, Cornwall
Carnon Contracting have been awarded a contract to install Minipiles and rock anchors to stabilise a mining feature in a car park at Gunnislake, Cornwall. The main contractor was Ryearch Ltd . The Scheme was designed by the John Grimes Partnership.[...]
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January 8th 2008
Newquay Airport Site Investigation
Carnon Contracting and Crofty Consultancy have jointly completed an Environmental drilling project at Newquay Airport in Cornwall UK. The works included the installation of sampling holes for the monitoring of groundwater. The[...]
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January 8th 2008
Ground Source Heat Pump Boreholes, Somerset.
Carnon Contracting have drilled and installed seven Ground Source Heat Pump Boreholes at a site in Somerset.The works included the installation of the ground loops and the grouting of the system with Thermally[...]
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December 20th 2007
Ischebeck Titan Soil Nails and Shotcrete installed at Penlee Quarry
Carnon Contracting have completed a project to stabilise a slope at Penlee Quarry near Newlyn in Cornwall. The works entailed the installation of 9 grouted Ischebeck Titan Soil Nails and the stabilisation of the slope using sprayed concrete, Shotcrete. The client[...]
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October 31st 2007
Mini Piling for Foundations.
Carnon Contracting have recently completed several small mini piling contracts for private customers and small developers throughout Devon and Cornwall. Mini Piling quite often provides a cost effective alternative to deep concrete foundations and avoids the requirement to take large[...]
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October 30th 2007
Site Investigation on the A30 in Cornwall
Carnon Contracting have carried out a Site Investigation adjacent to the slip road of the A30 at Tolvaddon for Card Geotechnics. The works included rotary drilling and the gathering of data from Standard Penetration Testing.[...]
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