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Volumetric concrete mixed on site in Folkestone
If a Folkestone conversion has opened up a void, a cellar or a floor whose depth changes as you go, the quantity cannot be fixed before the pour and volumetric is the ordering method that copes. Kent Readymix arranges volumetric concrete mixed on site across Folkestone.
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Conversion work is where the volume is unknown
Period buildings above the Leas and behind the harbour produce the most uncertain quantities on this coast. Voids under floors that nobody has seen for a century, cellar make-up, levelling across a floor that was never flat, and infill where a structure has been altered more than once. None of these can be measured honestly from above.
On the Shorncliffe land the uncertainty is the ordinary new-build kind: dug levels, soft spots and thickened edges. Most of our approved suppliers work on a pay-for-what-you-use basis, so on either job the quantity is settled at the end of the pour rather than at the start.
Where this vehicle can and cannot go in Folkestone
The honest position is that the town splits, and it splits against this service in the half where the volume is least certain.
A volumetric mixer carries its materials as well as its plant, so it is large, heavy and in need of firm standing, room to position and clearance for the discharge auger. The Shorncliffe land offers all of that. The zig-zag descent to the harbour and the stepped, cobbled lanes of the creative quarter offer none of it, and a stepped lane takes no vehicle at any size.
So in old Folkestone the ordering method and the vehicle part company. Where volumetric is right in principle, the workable version is often a vehicle positioned at the nearest firm standing with the concrete pumped the rest of the way, and where even that fails the answer is mini-mix taken in stages with the quantity managed load by load. We will say which applies to your address rather than sending something and finding out.
Setting up a Folkestone volumetric pour
Tell us which part of town the pour is in, what you are pouring, how confident you are in the volume, and whether the approach involves steps. 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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