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Concrete pumping in Dover
Dover's gradients mean the pour and the vehicle are rarely at the same level, and a chute only runs concrete downhill in a straight line. Kent Readymix arranges concrete pumping across Dover, which is why this service does more work here than the volumes alone would justify.
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Moving concrete vertically as well as along
A pump’s real advantage in this town is that it moves concrete in the direction a chute cannot. Up to a garden or a base above the road at Buckland or Tower Hamlets, or down to a plot below it on the slopes towards the Western Heights, and in both cases at a rate the people placing it can control rather than the rate gravity chooses.
The second advantage is that it separates two decisions that gradient normally welds together. The vehicle can stand where it is safe, which on a Dover hill is often the only position available, and the concrete still reaches where it is needed. Around the port the case reverts to the ordinary one, a large continuous pour with a placing face that moves away from the standing point.
Setting a pump up on a Dover slope
The requirements are firm, level ground that will carry the machine on its outriggers, room to deploy them fully, clear space for a mixer to reverse to the hopper, and overhead clearance, with power lines treated as an absolute exclusion.
Level is the word that does the work here. A steep hillside street gives a boom very little it can legitimately set up on, so on the domestic side the machine is usually a line pump, which needs far less to stand on and feeds hose up steps, along a passage or over a wall. Around the port and on the flatter ground a boom sets up properly.
Underneath still matters. Outrigger loads are concentrated, and a cellar, culvert, drainage run or soakaway beneath the standing position is a serious question, particularly on older terraced streets where what is below is not always recorded.
What we need for a Dover pump job
The volume, the distance and the height difference between a possible standing position and the pour, what is overhead and what is underground. 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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Serving the Area
Concrete for Dover, where the gradient on the approach decides what can be sent long before the volume does.