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Concrete pumping in Ashford
A boom pump is truck-mounted and carries a folding placing boom, which is what an Ashford job usually needs, because here the problem is reach across an open plot rather than a street too narrow for a lorry. Kent Readymix arranges concrete pumping across Ashford.
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Pumping distance rather than pumping past an obstacle
Most Kent towns hire a pump because something is in the way. Ashford hires one because the pour is a long way from anywhere a lorry can usefully stand.
On the housing edges that means an oversite or a raft at the back of a large plot, or a foundation run that a chute reaches at one end and not the other. In the logistics belt around Sevington and Waterbrook it means a floor or a hardstanding whose placing face moves steadily away from the standing position as the pour proceeds, which is exactly the case a boom answers, and it keeps the placement continuous rather than stop-start.
Setting a pump up on an Ashford plot
The requirements are specific and the second one catches people out. Firm, level ground that will carry the machine on its outriggers. Enough room to deploy those outriggers fully, which is wider than the vehicle. Clear space for a mixer to reverse to the hopper. And overhead clearance, with overhead power lines treated as an absolute exclusion rather than something to work around.
Ashford’s wide, often unadopted estate roads make the room straightforward. The ground is the question. On a part-finished plot the surface a digger crossed without complaint may not take concentrated outrigger loads, and the answer is usually matting and a considered position rather than the nearest convenient spot.
What is underneath matters as much as what is above. Outrigger loads are concentrated, so a drainage run, a culvert, a soakaway or a service trench beneath the standing position is a serious question and not a detail. On a new development plot those are frequently in and not yet obvious.
Arranging a pump and a delivery in Ashford
Send the total volume, the distance from where a pump could stand to the pour, the height if the pour is above ground level, what is overhead and what is underground. 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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Ready-mix concrete delivered across Ashford, from new plots on the southern edge to the distribution units at Sevington.