Concrete driveways in Swanley

The post-war and 1960s to 1970s stock was built with off-street parking, and those original surfaces are now at the age where they are being replaced rather than repaired. That is the bulk of the order book: a failed tarmac or concrete drive taken up and relaid.

Widening is the next most common, usually for a second car, a van, a caravan or a motorhome, and that changes the depth question because the load changes. Creating a new drive out of a front garden accounts for the rest, along with hardstandings for bins, trailers and garden buildings.

Getting the concrete onto the drive in Swanley

Everywhere else on our coverage list this section is about a constraint. Here it is mostly about its absence, and that is worth saying rather than dressing up.

Estate roads are wide, the approaches are dual carriageway, and a mixer can normally stand at the kerb outside the property for the length of a discharge without blocking anything. Domestic drives here are short enough that a chute covers a worthwhile part of the area and the remainder is a short barrow run on prepared ground.

Two things still change the answer, and neither of them is the road. Where a drive is being widened for a caravan, a motorhome or a van rather than for a second car, the depth follows the new load instead of the old drive, and that is settled before the sub-base goes in rather than after. And where a drive runs down the side of the house to a garage at the rear, the far end sits past chute reach on a frontage that had no difficulty at all, which is the one place in Swanley a pump earns its keep.

Ordering a Swanley driveway pour

Send the length and width, the depth, what will park on it, and say whether the drive runs past the house to anything at the rear. Your quotation, delivery and payment are agreed directly with the approved supplier appointed to your pour.

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