Concrete driveways in Deal

The former colliery housing at Mill Hill and the twentieth-century estates at Sholden and Mongeham are where this service belongs. Those plots were built with vehicles in mind, so the work is replacement drives, widened drives where a second car has arrived, hardstanding created out of a front garden, and the apron where the drive meets the footway.

In the conservation core the equivalent job is rarely a driveway at all. It is a small courtyard, a yard slab behind a frontage, or a hardstanding for bins and cycles, and it is ordered and poured as a slab rather than as a drive.

Getting the concrete onto the drive in Deal

The lorry never drives on a new drive, so the whole pour is discharged from the road and worked outwards from the far end. On the Deal estates that is straightforward. The carriageways are wide enough for a mixer to stand at the kerb, the drives are short enough that a chute covers a useful part of the area, and the barrow run for the remainder is short.

Two local details are worth raising anyway. Where a drive has been widened by taking in part of a front garden, the far corner is further from the kerb than the original drive was, and that is frequently the point at which the chute stops reaching. And a drive being replaced rather than built new usually has to be broken out first, so agree where the spoil sits before the concrete is booked, because a heap of broken slab in the only standing position on the day is a problem nobody saw coming.

Ordering a Deal driveway pour

Send the length and width, the depth, what will park on it and how far the far corner sits from the kerb. Your quotation, delivery and payment are agreed directly with the approved supplier appointed to your pour.

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