Concrete for footings and foundations in Gravesend

Domestic foundation work here comes off two housing eras. The Victorian terraces produce small rear extension trenches on narrow plots, reached through the property. The interwar semis produce the same trenches with side access and a frontage to stand on, which is a materially easier job for the same money.

East of the town the work is industrial. Wharf and riverside premises order plant and machinery bases, pads under new structures, and ground beams, on sites that were built to take a loaded vehicle anywhere on them.

A vehicle committed to a route before the trench is in sight

Gravesend’s foundation problem is the contrast rather than either half. The town centre runs on a one-way system, and the streets dropping to the canal basin and the pier are narrow with limited standing and limited turning. On a foundation pour that matters more than on most, because a loaded lorry can be committed to a route before anyone has established whether it can stop within reach of the trench, and there is no easy correction once it is in the system.

A short distance east the wharf roads are wide and built for articulated traffic, and none of it applies.

So the two halves need different answers. Near the river it is a standing position agreed in advance, mini-mix where the load is small enough, and a line pump where the trench is at the back of a narrow plot. On the wharf side a full mixer reaches the trench and the useful conversation is the delivery sequence for a larger pour.

Booking a Gravesend foundation delivery

Send the trench dimensions, the agreed depth, the street, and where a vehicle could legally stop. 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.