Concrete driveways in Broadstairs

Driveway pours here sit mainly on the villa frontages away from the immediate seafront, and on the plots where a former single house now has several households sharing one forecourt. That changes the job: a shared forecourt is designed around turning and parking several cars rather than around one, so the areas are wider than a standard domestic drive and the falls are more awkward.

Alongside that there is replacement work, where an original gravel or tarmac frontage is being taken up and relaid, and hardstanding work for bin stores and off-street parking created out of a front garden.

Getting the concrete onto the drive in Broadstairs

A driveway pour is unusual in that the finished surface is also the access route, so the lorry never drives on it. Everything is discharged from where the vehicle stands and worked outwards from the far end, which makes the frontage the deciding factor rather than the drive.

In Broadstairs the frontage is a seasonal question. Parking pressure on every seafront approach runs heavy for months at a time, and a mixer needs not just a gap but a gap it can occupy for the length of a discharge. The cliff-top roads around the bays are narrow enough that a parked line on both sides removes the option entirely, and the lanes descending to Viking Bay are worse.

Two things follow. Pick the date with the parking position in mind, not just the weather. And where the far corner of the drive beats the chute from the only available standing point, say so at enquiry, because a smaller vehicle making more trips or a line pump is a planned answer and barrowing across a wet slab is not.

Arranging a Broadstairs driveway pour

Send the length and width, the depth, what will park on it, and where a vehicle could realistically stand on the day you want. Your quotation, delivery and payment are agreed directly with the approved supplier appointed to your pour.

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