Mike Wilkes & Son has been established for over 20 years and first started out with one man and a van, the business began with an advert in the local newspaper advertising roofing work and has gradually grown ever since.
At present we currently have a friendly team of 33 staff (3 office staff, 1 contracts manager and 29 on site) who cover most building trades. We have 4 apprentices from the Merthyr area and for the last 10 years have taken on apprentices every year. We pride ourselves on the fact that we employ local people which in turn helps support our community, and work with the Pathways scheme in getting people back to work.

We carry out work for both the Public and Private Sector and have had contracts with Merthyr Tydfil Council for over 20 years.
We are currently carrying out contracts with Tai Calon, RCT Homes and RCTCBC, Bron Afon, MVH and MTCBC.

Looking after the environment is important to us and we try to keep all of our waste to a minimum.
My issue like many other people in the same industry face was the rising costs of disposing of the rubble on building jobs and then buying in crushed aggregate. The cost of this seemed to be rising all the time and I needed a solution that would save me money.
Crushing my own aggregate seemed the obvious solution. But who to choose???

I visited the Red Rhino factory with my wife where I couldn’t fail to be impressed by the level of engineering and the quality of the product.
The quality checks throughout the build process really did offer me a peace of mind that a Red Rhino Crusher was the right crusher for me. The added bonus of the 5000 series is that I can tow it around with me on my plant trailer.
On the 15th August Mike Wilkes and Son Building Company took receipt of our first 5000 series Red Rhino crusher.

I immediately put the crusher to work and was amazed at what it could crush and the amount I could get through in a day.
It all seemed too good to be true. I decided to work out what it would have cost me had I kept paying to dump the rubble and buying in crushed aggregate. I was amazed with the result of this.
My crusher had paid for itself in 9 weeks!!!! No other piece of plant equipment I had ever purchased in 20 years of trading had ever managed to pay for itself that quickly.