Ready-mix concrete for floors in Ramsgate

Ramsgate’s Regency and early Victorian terraces have a basement storey more often than not, which gives this town a floor market most of Kent does not have. Basement and lower ground floors formed or re-laid as habitable space, cellar floors made good, and ground floors replaced above them as a building is converted between flats and houses.

On the Manston side and around the harbour the same service is ordinary commercial work: unit and workshop floors on flat ground where a vehicle reaches the opening and successive loads can queue.

Getting a floor in below the pavement, past the light well

Two obstacles arrive together. The first is the void: where a terrace has a basement area at the front there is an open, usually railed gap between kerb and building, and a chute runs concrete in a straight line under gravity and does not cross it. The second is level, because the floor is below the vehicle rather than beside it.

Barrowing is a poor answer to both. The route goes round the void, through the building and down a staircase, and a floor placed that way is placed in instalments, which is how a joint ends up in the middle of a slab that should be one piece.

A line pump answers it directly. It crosses the void, goes over the railings, drops through an opening or a window and places concrete at the far corner of the floor at a controlled rate. Gradient is the third layer: the harbour ramps are steep and the crescents are narrow, so the standing position is checked for slope before anything is booked.

What to tell us about a Ramsgate floor

Whether the floor is below pavement level, whether there is a basement area, light well or railings, and the area and thickness. 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.