Concrete driveways in Rochester

At Delce and Borstal the Victorian terraces produce short frontage drives, single parking bays and garage aprons, often on ground that climbs away from the road because the whole area sits well above the river.

Along and behind the High Street there is very little driveway work at all, and what exists is small, restricted and constrained by a protected frontage. On the riverside, regeneration sites order the commercial version: access surfacing, parking courts and service hardstanding on plots with construction access.

An approach, then a climb, then a frontage you cannot stand on

Rochester asks its access question before anyone reaches the street, and a driveway compounds it, because the vehicle has to stand still on that street for the whole discharge and cannot use the drive itself.

The crossing decides the approach. The climb to Delce and Borstal decides whether the standing position is safe, since a loaded vehicle holding a slope is a different proposition from one standing level. That is not the same question Chatham poses, where the gradient sits on the street the drive is on. In Rochester it is on the way there as well, so a vehicle can be committed to a hill before anyone has seen the frontage.

Once it is there, the ordinary driveway rules apply. Work outwards from the far end, keep the pour continuous, and where the far end beats the chute use a barrow run or a line pump rather than moving the vehicle mid-pour.

Getting a Rochester driveway booked

Give the address, the road you expect a vehicle to arrive on, 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.