Mini-mix concrete delivery in Canterbury

Inside and immediately around the walls the work is small by necessity. Courtyard and light-well bases, threshold and step pours, small structural bases in period and listed property, and floor patches in a student and house-in-multiple-occupation stock that turns over constantly.

Outside the walls the same service covers the ordinary part-load business on the Sturry side and the southern fringes: shed and garden building bases, posts, paths and small footings on plots where a full mixer could come but the load would be wasted.

Occupying less kerb for less time

This is the specific Canterbury reason for a smaller vehicle, and it is different from every other town’s.

The walled centre operates a timed, bollarded pedestrian zone. A vehicle either arrives inside the permitted window or it does not arrive, and around that the medieval lanes are narrow, several are one-way, and conservation constraints limit where anything can stand and for how long. The currency inside that boundary is kerb space and time, not width alone, and a shorter vehicle spends less of both.

The corollary is that the load has to be sized to the window rather than to the job. Where the pour is bigger than one small load can complete, the honest options are a planned split so each pour is complete in itself, or a line pump run from a permitted position outside the restriction so the concrete travels and the vehicle does not.

Measure the narrowest lane on the approach, note anything overhead, and give us the window you have.

Ordering a mini-mix load in Canterbury

Send the volume or the dimensions, say whether the address is inside the walls, on a campus or on the fringes, and give any access window. 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.