Concrete for footings and foundations in Margate

Margate’s foundation orders follow its renovation economy. Bases under new steels and structural openings, pad footings under an internal support, short trenches for a small rear addition, and underpinning support where a Victorian terrace is being brought back into use.

Along the seafront and in the Old Town, commercial premises changing use generate the same kind of work: small bases, thresholds and support pads, in buildings with no side access and a protected or constrained frontage.

Getting concrete to a trench when nothing can stand outside

This is where Margate differs from Ramsgate along the same coast. Ramsgate’s obstacle is a basement area and a gradient. Margate’s is that the street has nowhere for a lorry to stop.

Terraced streets here are tightly packed and parked both sides, and the Old Town is narrower again, so even where a full-size mixer could drive through it has no room to stand and discharge. The seafront carries its own restrictions on where and when a vehicle can be.

For a foundation that produces a specific problem. The volume is usually small, which suggests a simple delivery, but the access is difficult, which suggests an expensive one. Mini-mix resolves most of it: a smaller vehicle finds a legal position, the load matches a base or a short trench without waste, and the delivery ticket still records the designation. Where the trench is behind the building, a line pump run through the front is normally quicker than any route round.

What a Margate foundation enquiry needs

Send the trench or base dimensions, the agreed depth, and a photograph of the street and the route in if you can. 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.