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Ready-mix concrete for slabs in Gillingham
If you are laying a slab in a rear garden on Gillingham's terraced grid, the concrete is coming through your house. There is no side entry and no service road behind the gardens. Kent Readymix arranges ready-mix concrete for slabs across Gillingham with the barrow distance, or the pump line, worked out first.
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The Edwardian grid produces one job more than any other: a rear garden slab on a long narrow plot. Patio bases, shed and garden room bases, the oversite under a small rear extension, and path and step work all come off the same plot shape, and the same constraint applies to every one of them.
At Rainham the housing shifts to 1930s semis with their own frontages, so garage bases and larger garden slabs become straightforward. The business parks are different again, with commercial yard slabs and unit oversite on sites that have proper access.
Barrow distance is the number that decides a Gillingham slab
Gillingham’s grid is flat, which removes the gradient problem that dominates Chatham a mile away, and it has no rear access at all, which replaces it with a harder one. The alleys that do exist are too narrow to be a delivery route, so the only way in is the front door.
That makes one measurement decisive: the distance from where the vehicle can legally stand to the back of the plot, taken through the house. A slab has to go in as one continuous pour, so every extra metre of that route is time taken out of the working window, and a long barrow run on a big slab is how a cold joint gets into a floor that was meant to be one piece.
Mini-mix gets a smaller vehicle nearer the door and lets the load be taken in stages. A line pump runs a hose through the hallway or over the roof and puts the concrete straight onto the slab, which on a long plot is usually the only way to keep the pour continuous. Permit parking decides where either of them can stand.
What we need for a Gillingham slab
Measure kerb to slab through the house and send the figure with the slab dimensions. Your quotation, delivery and payment are agreed directly with the approved supplier appointed to your pour.
Send the detail to hello@kentreadymix.co.uk and an approved supplier will confirm the mix, the volume and the delivery window.
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Concrete for Gillingham, where a rear garden pour usually means the concrete travels through the house.