Volumetric concrete mixed on site in Chatham

Small terraced work throws up more uncertain volumes than large commercial work does. A rear garden that has never been level, a base going in against an old wall of unknown foundation, a void under a step or a path, a slab whose depth changes across its own length. None of these can be measured accurately before the ground is open, and all of them are awkward to order as a fixed load.

At Chatham Maritime and Chatham Waters the uncertainty is different in character, usually make-up and levelling on development ground rather than small domestic guesswork, but the ordering problem is the same one.

Why the hillside is the wrong place for this vehicle

There is an honest limit worth stating rather than glossing. A volumetric lorry is large and heavy, carrying its materials as well as its plant, and it needs a firm standing, room to position and clearance to work the auger. A narrow one-way terraced street at Luton or Wayfield, parked on both sides and on a gradient, offers none of those, and a vehicle that has to hold a slope while it batches is a worse proposition than one holding a slope while it discharges a fixed load.

So for most hillside work the honest answer is mini-mix, which solves the small quantity a different way, or a pump fed from wherever a vehicle can hold.

Where volumetric does work in Chatham is the dockside. Open ground, room to position, clearance overhead, and a pour where the quantity is uncertain enough to be worth mixing as it goes.

Getting on-site mixed concrete in Chatham

Tell us the street, what you are pouring, and how confident you are in the volume. If the address is on the hillside we will say plainly whether the vehicle fits. 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.