Ready-mix concrete for slabs in Rochester

Along and behind the High Street the slab work is careful rather than large: internal floor slabs in conservation-area and period property, small structural bases, and reinstatement where a protected frontage limits what can be disturbed.

Up at Delce and Borstal the Victorian terraces produce rear garden slabs, patio and shed bases and extension oversite on tight plots. On the riverside, regeneration sites produce commercial and residential slabs at a proper scale with construction access to match.

Deciding the approach before the discharge

Rochester asks its access question before anyone reaches the street. The town sits on the river with two crossings, and which one a loaded vehicle takes decides the side of town it arrives on. Getting that wrong on a slab costs more than a wrong turn elsewhere, because the concrete’s working window is running the whole time.

Once across, the High Street is narrow and restricted, so a slab there is a matter of a permitted standing position and a limited occupancy rather than of width alone. Mini-mix and a booked window do most of that work.

Then there is the climb. Delce and Borstal sit well above the river and the roads up are steep enough that a loaded vehicle’s standing position needs checking for slope. That is a different question from Chatham’s, where the gradient is on the street the pour is on. In Rochester it is on the approach as much as on the street, so a vehicle can be committed to a hill before anyone has looked at the slab.

Getting a Rochester slab booked

Give the address, the slab dimensions and the road you would expect a vehicle to arrive on. Naming the crossing saves a conversation. 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.