Ready-mix concrete for floors in Gravesend

The Victorian terraces produce internal floor work on narrow plots: a ground floor taken back to bare ground and re-laid, a rear addition floor, or a floor formed in a converted outbuilding. The interwar semis produce garage and extension floors with easier access and a frontage to stand on.

On the eastern side the same service is industrial. Wharf and riverside premises order building and unit floors, workshop slabs and floors carrying plant, on ground laid out for heavy vehicles where successive loads can be queued rather than turned round one at a time.

Two ways a floor can be fed, a few streets apart

A floor cannot be paused, so the thing that matters is whether the concrete can keep arriving at the placing face. In Gravesend that answer changes completely across a short distance.

In the older centre and on the streets dropping towards the canal basin and the pier, standing is limited and turning is worse. A large vehicle can be committed to a route before anyone has established whether it can stop within reach of the opening, and on a floor that risks the pour rather than just the schedule. The workable answers there are a standing position agreed in advance with mini-mix, or a line pump run from a position further back so the concrete travels and the vehicle does not.

On the wharf side the position reverses. Roads are wide and built for articulated traffic, a full mixer stands at the opening, and where a floor runs well back inside a building a boom pump or a pump line covers the distance without interrupting the placement.

Booking a Gravesend floor pour

Send the floor area and thickness, the street, whether the floor is ground-bearing or suspended, and where a vehicle could legally stand. 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.