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Ready-mix concrete for footings and foundations in Swanley
If a Swanley foundation is going to be difficult, it will be difficult on the plot rather than on the road, because the estate roads take a loaded mixer almost everywhere. Kent Readymix arranges ready-mix concrete for footings and foundations across Swanley, and the ground you would ask a lorry to stand on is the thing to check.
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The foundation work Swanley generates
Extension footings dominate. Post-war and 1960s to 1970s houses being extended at the rear or the side take conventional strip or trench fill runs, dug on plots with room to bring a machine in. Garage, garden room and outbuilding foundations sit alongside them, and porch and bay footings account for a steady share of the smaller orders.
The light commercial and retail premises add unit and plant base foundations on sites laid out for vehicles.
Getting a mixer to a trench in Swanley
Foundations are poured once building control has inspected the open trench, and in Swanley the period between the inspection and the pour is usually the only real planning problem, because the street will take whatever is sent.
What is worth checking is the ground rather than the road. Foundations come early in a job, which is when a plot has least made-up surface on it, and a post-war back garden that has carried a decade of garden traffic is not the same surface as one a loaded lorry has to stand still on for the length of a discharge. Where the trench is at the rear and the vehicle would have to come off the drive to reach it, the answer is usually to keep the lorry on the hard and take the concrete the rest of the way, either by pump or by a shorter, lighter vehicle.
Trench fill is supplied at a higher consistence so that it flows along the trench and levels itself, so it is worth arranging a continuous supply rather than a barrow chain. On a Swanley plot that is normally achievable, which is not something we can say about most of the towns on this list.
The motorway junction is the one route detail worth naming at enquiry.
Booking a Swanley foundation pour
Send the trench dimensions, the agreed depth, strip or trench fill, and describe the ground between the road and the excavation. Your quotation, delivery and payment are agreed directly with the approved supplier appointed to your pour.
**Sideways links:** footings and foundations in Dartford, footings and foundations in Sevenoaks.
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What Work Is Involved?
Extension footings
Garden and boundary wall footings
Outbuilding and garage foundations
Retaining wall footings
Conservatory and porch footings
Why book with us
Why Choose Us for Ready-mix concrete for footings and foundations in Swanley
