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Ready-mix concrete for slabs in Canterbury
Can concrete for a slab be delivered inside the Canterbury walls? Only within the window the bollarded pedestrian zone allows, and the slab has to be poured and finished around it. Kent Readymix arranges ready-mix concrete for slabs across Canterbury, where the loading window is planned first and the concrete second.
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Courtyard slabs inside, campus slabs outside
Inside and immediately around the walls the slabs are small and awkward. Courtyard and light-well bases, internal floor slabs in period and listed buildings, and small structural bases in a student and house-in-multiple-occupation stock that turns over constantly. Nothing is square and very little is standard.
The volume sits outside. University and hospital campuses order commercial slabs, plant bases and external hardstandings, and the newer housing on the Sturry side and the southern fringes orders oversite, garage bases and garden slabs. Those are different buyers ordering different pours, and they should be described separately rather than blended.
Pouring a slab against a timed loading window
A slab is the least forgiving pour type to fit into a fixed window, because it cannot be paused. The concrete has to arrive, discharge, spread, level and finish in one session, and inside the walls the vehicle may only be present for part of it.
That reshapes the order. Mini-mix is often right simply because a smaller vehicle occupies less kerb for less time, which is the currency inside a pedestrian zone. Where the slab is bigger than one small load, the honest answer is either a planned bay split, so each pour is complete in itself, or a line pump run from a permitted standing position outside the restriction so the concrete travels and the vehicle does not. A boom pump rarely finds room to set up in the medieval lanes, and the conservation constraints limit what can be brought onto a frontage in any case.
On the campuses and the fringes this whole paragraph falls away. Access is ordinary commercial access and a full mixer discharges to the slab.
Placing a Canterbury slab order
Say whether the address is inside the walls, on a campus or on the fringes, and give the slab dimensions. 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 Canterbury, from timed access inside the walls to campus and fringe development outside them.