Concrete driveways in Whitstable

At Chestfield and on the later residential streets the plots were laid out with off-street parking, so the work is conventional: replacement drives where a tarmac or gravel surface has failed, widening for a second vehicle, and hardstandings created out of a front garden.

In the old town the equivalent order is rarely a drive. It is a courtyard, a small hardstanding or a bin and cycle standing, and it is ordered and poured as a slab because that is what it is. A handful of properties do have a frontage, and those are the ones where the permit parking position decides whether a pour is straightforward or not.

Getting the concrete onto the drive in Whitstable

The finished drive is the access route, so the vehicle stays on the road and the pour works outwards from the standing position. On this coast that makes the standing position the whole job.

At Chestfield and on the newer streets it is a good position. Carriageways are wide enough, a mixer holds the kerb for the length of a discharge, and a chute covers a useful part of a domestic drive.

Nearer the town it is the opposite. Residents’ permit parking runs throughout, so a legal position is not the same thing as an available one and the two have to be checked together. Where the frontage sits off a street that feeds the alleys, the practical reach from any legal position may be shorter than the drive is long, and that is the point at which a smaller vehicle making more trips, or a line pump, stops being an upgrade and becomes the method.

Pick the date with the parking position in mind and not only the weather.

Ordering a Whitstable driveway pour

Send the length and width, the depth, what will park on it, and describe the parking position outside the property. Your quotation, delivery and payment are agreed directly with the approved supplier appointed to your pour.

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