For trade suppliers
Piling: reach the builders whose ground has surprised them
Piling on a homeowner job is rarely planned from the start. It arrives when the trial hole finds clay, a tree or made ground, and the builder needs somebody who can get a rig through a side gate and give the engineer what they asked for. A listing here puts you in front of the vetted tradespeople near you at exactly that point.
List your piling businessListing is by application. We check who you are before anything goes live, and we talk you through what a listing costs before you commit to it.
Why Pinnacle exists
Cowboy builders have cost homeowners their savings and good tradespeople their reputation. Most platforms check the company rather than the person behind it, so the ones who turn up and do the work properly get tarred with the same brush.
Pinnacle vets the individual. Our founder, Graham Nash, has spent 25 years helping families rebuild after they were let down, more than 500 of them, sometimes out of his own pocket. That standard is why tradespeople join, and it is why the businesses listed beside them are checked too.
For you that matters in a practical way: every trade reading your listing has been vetted before they got here, on ID, insurance, qualifications and references, and homeowners running projects on Pinnacle see it too. It is a smaller audience than a directory you can buy your way into, and a considerably better qualified one.
Graham's storyWho you would reach
- Builders and extension specialists whose foundations have gone from strip to piled after the ground was opened.
- Groundworkers who have been asked to price piled foundations and want a rig they can rely on for the programme.
- Basement and underpinning specialists working in tight access where a mini rig is the only option.
How a listing works
Being listed is being findable, not being sold for. Nobody is sent your details without asking for them.
Apply
Tell us what you supply, where you are and how far you deliver or travel. It takes a few minutes.
We check you
Your company registration, your trading history and anything you have told us you hold. A person does this, and rings you to go through it: anything you hold that the form has no box for, a licence, a registration, a scheme membership, is told to us on that call. We come back to you either way.
Your listing goes live
You appear in the directory under the categories you cover, to anyone searching near you.
They ask for your details
A vetted tradesperson, or a homeowner running a project here, reads your listing and asks for your contact details. That is the point at which you hear from them.
You take it from there
The conversation is yours. We do not quote for you, take the order, or add anything to what you charge.
What we check
Your company registration and trading history, the services you list and how far you travel. If you tell us you hold a scheme membership or that your rigs and operators hold certification, we record it and check it, because the builder relying on you cannot see the work once it is done.
Being checked is the point of the directory. A trade choosing a supplier here knows somebody looked, which is not something they can assume anywhere else, and it is why we would rather list fewer businesses properly than many on trust.
More about our checksWhat is coming
We record how many times somebody asked for a listed business's details, because that is the figure that means something rather than how many times a page happened to show you.
We are building a view for suppliers that will show you your own. It is not live yet, and we will tell you when it is rather than counting it as a reason to join today.
Homeowners running projects can search the directory too.
Questions trade suppliers ask
Can a builder see which rigs I run?
On your website, which the listing links to. Restricted access is the usual reason a homeowner job needs piling at all, so the size of the smallest rig you can get through a gate is the first thing a builder wants to know.
Will Pinnacle pass me the engineering?
No. The structural design comes from the builder or the homeowner, and you price from it as you would anywhere. We list you; we do not sit in the middle of the job.
Who searches for piling?
Vetted builders, groundworkers and basement specialists with a homeowner job near you whose ground has turned out harder than the drawings assumed.
How far do you show my listing?
As far as you tell us you travel. Rigs move further than most things here, so pick the radius you will genuinely honour and searches within it are ordered by distance with the closest shown first.
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Ready?
Apply, and we will take it from there.
Applying starts the checks. It is not an instant yes, we tell you where you stand either way, and nothing goes live until you have agreed to it.