A family-run team thatbuilds the ground beforeit lays the surface

We work for homeowners across Potters Bar, Hertfordshire and the north London border who want one job, done once, by one team. Most of our work is resin bound driveways: a permeable, seamless surface that suits period frontages and newer homes alike. But the reason people call us is rarely the resin itself. It is that the driveway they had before sank, cracked, held water or shed gravel, and nobody would take responsibility for why.

The answer is almost always underneath. A surface is only as good as the ground built to carry it, and that ground is where most driveway contracts quietly cut corners. We specialise in the whole job: excavation and muck away, engineered sub-bases, concrete bases where the design calls for one, drainage, kerbs and edge restraints, then the surface. Because John manages all of it, there is nobody to blame and nobody to chase.

A typical project is John plus two or three team members, scaled up with experienced groundworkers, labourers and trusted subcontractors when a job calls for it. Whoever is on site, the work is run to the same standards and you still deal with John and Amy.

Alongside driveways we take on patios, block paving, groundworks, foundations and footings, drainage, landscaping, fencing and artificial grass, often as part of a single front-and-back transformation, and often for builders who need the ground right before they start.

John Ruben Ltd has traded since 2013, and the experience behind it runs to more than 25 years of groundwork and hard landscaping. We are family-run, which in practice means the name on the van is the name that answers the phone, and our reputation locally is the only marketing that has ever mattered; it is why our Google rating sits at 5.0.