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Concrete driveways in Ramsgate
Ramsgate's cliff-top crescents were laid out with basement areas and light wells at the pavement edge, which is why so few of them have a drive and why the ones that exist sit past an obstacle. Kent Readymix arranges ready-mix concrete for driveways across Ramsgate with that gap accounted for.
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Crescent parking, and hardstanding on the Manston side
On the Regency and early Victorian terraces the driveway work is limited and specific. A hard standing where a front garden has been opened up, a re-laid ramp beside a light well, or a small parking platform at a property where the ground allows it. Areas are small and the ground rarely starts level.
The volume version is on the Manston side. The harbour and the industrial land there order yard surfacing, vehicle hardstanding and loading aprons on flat ground built for plant, where the depth follows the traffic and the pour is straightforward to reach.
Getting concrete across the gap and onto the drive
Two obstacles stack up here and a driveway meets both. The first is the void. Where a terrace has a basement area at the front there is an open, usually railed gap between the kerb and the property, and a chute runs concrete in a straight line under gravity and does not cross it. The second is gradient: the ramps down to the Royal Harbour are steep and the crescents are narrow, so the standing position has to be assessed for slope as well as for width and parking.
Add the driveway’s own rule, that the vehicle cannot stand on the surface it is laying, and the result is a pour where the lorry is further from the work than on almost any other job in Kent.
A line pump answers it. It crosses the void, goes over the railings and places the concrete on the drive at a controlled rate, which on a sloping surface also stops the mix running to the bottom faster than it can be tamped and textured.
What to tell us about a Ramsgate drive
Say whether there is a basement area, a light well or railings between road and frontage, and give the drive dimensions and the fall. 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 Ramsgate, where a basement area at the pavement edge often puts the pour out of a chute's reach.