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Ready-mix concrete for slabs in Margate
Margate's terraced streets are parked on both sides and its Old Town is narrower again, so on most slabs here nothing large gets near the pour. Kent Readymix arranges ready-mix concrete for slabs across Margate, where the standing position is established first and the slab is fed from there.
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Yard slabs, floor slabs and conversion work
Margate’s slab work follows its housing stock. Victorian terraces and Cliftonville flats under renovation produce internal floor slabs where a ground floor has been dug out or a layout changed, small structural bases, and rear yard and garden slabs on plots that are short and enclosed.
The seafront and the Old Town add commercial slabs as premises change hands and change use: shop and unit floors, small external bases and reinstatement work. Volumes are modest across the board and the frequency is high, which is a different commercial shape from a town pouring a few large slabs a year.
Density, not gradient, decides a Margate slab
This is what separates Margate from Ramsgate along the same coast. Ramsgate’s slab problem is a gradient and a basement area at the pavement edge. Margate’s is that there is nowhere to put the lorry.
Terraced streets here are tightly packed and parked both sides, so even where a full-size mixer could physically drive through, it has no room to stand and discharge. The Old Town is tighter again, and the seafront carries its own restrictions on where and when a vehicle can be.
The honest answer on most Margate slabs is therefore a smaller vehicle, a standing position agreed and legal before the day, and a pumped or barrowed final stretch. Mini-mix is not a fallback here, it is frequently the primary option, and it is worth specifying at enquiry rather than discovering on the morning of the pour. Where the slab is an internal floor in a converted property, a line pump run through the front of the building is usually quicker than any barrow route through it.
Ordering a slab in Margate
Send the slab dimensions and, if you can, a photograph of the street and the route to the pour. On these streets a photograph answers more than a description. 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 Margate, where dense terraced streets mean the vehicle rarely gets close to the pour.