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Concrete driveways in Gillingham
Most Gillingham driveway concrete goes into a single bay converted from a front garden, which is the case the permitted development rules on impermeable hard surfacing were written for: the water has nowhere to go but the road unless it is designed not to. Kent Readymix arranges ready-mix concrete for driveways across Gillingham.
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Front garden conversions, and drives at Rainham
The commonest Gillingham driveway job is a conversion. A single parking bay is taken out of a front garden, a kerb is dropped to reach it, and the surface has to shed water somewhere other than the highway. Areas are small, the falls are short, and that drainage decision arrives before the concrete is specified rather than after.
At Rainham the stock changes to 1930s semis with their own frontages and side access, and the driveway work becomes ordinary: full drive replacements, widening for a second vehicle, and aprons up to a garage. The business parks add the commercial version, service yards and vehicle hardstanding on sites with proper access.
A drive is the one pour a Gillingham lorry can reach
There is something worth stating plainly here, because it runs against everything else this town’s pages say. Gillingham’s defining constraint is that rear gardens have no vehicle route, so most pours have to travel through the house. A driveway is the exception. It is at the front, it is next to the road, and the concrete goes straight from the chute onto the ground.
What is left is parking. Permit parking runs across the residential streets, and the space directly outside the property is the space the drive is being laid on, so the vehicle stands somewhere else and reaches across. On a narrow terraced frontage that gap is short. On a Rainham drive running back to a garage it is not, and a chute has a limit.
Where the far end of the drive beats the chute, the answer is a barrow run on a small pour, or a line pump where the drive is long and has to go in as one piece.
Ordering a Gillingham driveway
Send the drive dimensions and depth, what will park on it, and where a vehicle could legally stand while the space itself is being poured. Your quotation, delivery and payment are agreed directly with the approved supplier appointed to your pour.
Send the detail to hello@kentreadymix.co.uk and an approved supplier will confirm the mix, the volume and the delivery window.
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Concrete for Gillingham, where a rear garden pour usually means the concrete travels through the house.