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Concrete driveways in Dover
How steep can a concrete drive be in Dover? Steep enough that the surface texture stops being a choice and becomes the safety feature, which is the normal condition on the hillside plots here. Kent Readymix arranges ready-mix concrete for driveways across Dover, matched to the gradient as well as the load.
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Hillside drives and port hardstanding
At Buckland, Tower Hamlets and the slopes towards the Western Heights, a drive is usually cut into falling ground. Ramps down to garages under the house, short steep entrances off the road, and small parking platforms held by a wall are the common jobs, and none of them is laid flat.
Around the harbour the same service means commercial hardstanding: yard surfacing, loading aprons and vehicle standing on flat, well-served ground, where the depth follows the heaviest thing that will ever use it rather than the car parked there now.
Grip, drainage and a lorry that cannot stand on the pour
A steep drive changes three things at once. The finish has to be brushed or tamped for grip, because a smooth surface on a gradient is unsafe wet and unusable frozen. The water has to be dealt with deliberately, since concrete is impermeable and a fall towards the highway is exactly what the permitted development rules on domestic hard surfacing are concerned with. And the concrete has to be placed at a consistence that will stay where it is put rather than run to the bottom.
Then the delivery. The vehicle cannot stand on the drive it is laying, so it stands on the road above or below it, which on a Dover hillside is a position that has to be assessed for slope before anything is booked.
That is why a pump earns its place here more often than the areas would suggest. It lets the lorry stand where it is safe, and it feeds the drive from the top down at a rate the people finishing it can hold.
What we need for a Dover driveway
The drive dimensions, the gradient, what will park on it, and where the surface water is going. 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.
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Serving the Area
Concrete for Dover, where the gradient on the approach decides what can be sent long before the volume does.