Concrete for footings and foundations in Maidstone

Park Wood, Allington and Shepway carry most of the foundation work: rear extension trenches, garage and outbuilding footings, garden room bases and porch footings, on plots with enough frontage to put a vehicle where it is needed.

Beyond that there is business park and retail commercial work with designed foundations, riverside development, and village work in every direction. Maidstone has the broadest mix in the county, but the suburban trench is the order that comes in most often and it is the honest thing to lead on.

Standing space, not road width, on a trench pour

A foundation delivery is a stationary event, and a long trench keeps the vehicle stationary for some time. That is what makes the Maidstone town-centre gyratory and one-way system a real constraint even though the roads carry a mixer perfectly well: the difficulty is finding somewhere to stop rather than somewhere to drive.

The saving grace is several river crossings, so a compromised approach usually has an alternative. That makes a central Maidstone trench a scheduling conversation rather than a vehicle-selection one, which is not true in Tonbridge.

On the suburban estates it is simpler again. The vehicle stands on the frontage or the drive, and the only remaining question is the distance to the trench, because trench fill flows and a long barrow run works against you. Where the trench is at the back of a deep plot, a line pump removes the run entirely.

Arranging a Maidstone trench pour

Send the trench dimensions, the agreed depth, whether you are pouring strip or trench fill, and whether the vehicle can stand off the carriageway. 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.