Ready-mix concrete for slabs in Sittingbourne

North and east of the town the industrial and light commercial estates carry the larger slab work: service yard slabs, external hardstandings, loading areas and unit oversite, often specified with a designation and a finish rather than described in general terms.

The domestic side splits in two of its own. The newer housing estates produce garage bases, garden room slabs and extension oversite on comfortable plots. The older streets around Milton Regis and the town centre produce the same jobs on much tighter ones, and it is the plot rather than the pour that differs.

A gate is not a width problem

On the estates, road width was never the constraint and it is not one now. What governs a slab delivery there is the gate: a site induction, a permit, a nominated route once inside and a slot that has to be kept. A full mixer discharges to the slab comfortably, and where the slab sits away from the road there is room for a boom pump to set up.

The thing worth planning is occupancy. A slab holds the vehicle stationary for the whole discharge, so a booked slot has to be long enough for the pour rather than long enough for the delivery, and those are not the same number.

In the older streets the constraint is the familiar one. Narrow carriageways, heavy parking, and few legal places for a large vehicle to stand and discharge. Mini-mix is the sensible default, with a barrow run or a line pump covering the last stretch to a rear garden.

Setting up a Sittingbourne slab

For a site, send the induction and permit requirements with the slab dimensions. For a domestic job, send the street and the standing position. 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.