Ready-mix concrete for slabs in Chatham

The terraced streets at Luton and Wayfield generate a steady flow of small slabs: rear garden bases, patio and shed bases, garage floors and the oversite under a small extension. Volumes are modest, the jobs repeat street after street, and the plot is usually long and narrow.

Chatham Maritime and Chatham Waters are the other order book entirely. Development on open dockside ground produces hardstandings, service yard slabs and commercial oversite at a scale that suits a full load, on estate roads laid out for construction traffic.

Standing a mixer on a slope while it discharges a slab

A slab pour cannot be paused, which is what makes the Chatham gradient a slab problem rather than a general access one. The vehicle has to hold its position on the hill for the whole discharge, and the concrete has to run in a controlled way down a chute that is already tilted by the street.

Add the width. These streets are narrow, frequently one-way and parked on both sides, so the safe standing position is often not the convenient one, and the slab is commonly above or below it rather than level with it.

Two answers do most of the work. A smaller mini-mix vehicle has more places on a hill where it can legally and safely stand. A line pump lets the vehicle stay on the flatter part of the street and sends the concrete up or down to the slab, which beats barrowing uphill from the only spot the lorry could use. None of this applies at Chatham Maritime, where a full mixer reaches the slab and discharges level.

Before you order a slab in Chatham

Tell us the street, the slab size, and whether the pour sits above the standing position, below it or level with it. 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.