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Concrete pumping in Gillingham
If you are pouring in a rear garden on Gillingham's terraced grid, a line pump is not an upgrade over barrowing, it is the way the concrete gets there in one continuous operation. Kent Readymix arranges concrete pumping across Gillingham for precisely that.
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Gillingham’s grid is flat, so there is no gradient argument, and it has no rear access at all, which is a stronger argument. There is no side entry, no service road behind the gardens, and the alleys are too narrow to be a delivery route. The only way in is the front door.
That produces a specific and very common job: a rear garden slab, an extension oversite, a footing or a floor at the end of a long narrow plot, all of which have to go in as one piece. A line pump runs hose through a hallway or over a roof and places the concrete straight onto the work, and the pour never stops. A barrow route through a house does the same job in instalments, and every instalment is a place a joint can form.
Setting a line pump up on a terraced street
A line pump, sometimes called a static or trailer pump, needs much less than a boom. It still needs a firm position, room for a mixer to reverse to the hopper, and a route for the hose that people can work around safely.
A boom is rarely the answer here, because deploying outriggers fully needs more width than these streets have and there is nothing worth reaching over. What does apply from the boom checklist is the overhead rule: where hose is being lifted over a roof or a boundary, overhead power lines are an absolute exclusion rather than something to work around.
Permit parking decides where the machine and the mixer can legally sit, and washout decides where the job ends. Concrete washout is strongly alkaline and a pollutant, so it must not enter a surface water drain, a watercourse or a highway gully, and on a terraced street with gullies at every kerb that has to be arranged with the operator beforehand.
What to send us about a Gillingham pump job
The volume, the kerb-to-pour distance through the house, the hose route you think is available, and where washout could be contained. 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.