Volumetric concrete mixed on site in Dover

Dover’s domestic work produces more genuinely unknown volumes than most towns, because so little of it starts level. A base cut into a slope, a step and landing arrangement, a retaining structure’s toe, or make-up where an old wall or path has come out, all take what they take rather than what was calculated.

Around the port the uncertainty is industrial rather than domestic: void filling, levelling across a yard, and make-up under a hardstanding. Most of our approved suppliers work on a pay-for-what-you-use basis, which is the point of the exercise on either kind of job.

Finding a volumetric lorry somewhere to stand in Dover

Here is the constraint that shapes this service in this town. A volumetric mixer is large and heavy, carrying its materials as well as its plant, and it needs firm, reasonably level standing, room to position and clearance to work the discharge auger. A steep Dover approach gives it none of that easily.

So the practical pattern is that volumetric works around the port and on the flatter ground, and on the hillside plots at Buckland, Tower Hamlets and towards the Western Heights it is often the wrong vehicle even where it is the right ordering method. Where that is the case the honest alternatives are mini-mix taken in stages, or a pump fed from a position the vehicle can hold safely.

If your pour needs a specific designation, ask for it to be confirmed and recorded on the delivery ticket. That ticket is your record of what went into the ground and it is worth keeping with the paperwork for the job.

What we need for a Dover volumetric pour

What you are pouring, your best estimate and how firm it is, the slope, and where a vehicle could stand safely and level. 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.