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Concrete for footings and foundations in Ashford
If the trench sits further from firm standing than a chute reaches, an Ashford foundation becomes a pump or a barrow job rather than a straight discharge. Kent Readymix arranges ready-mix concrete for footings and foundations across Ashford, where the running surface matters as much as the distance.
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The town's strongest service, and why
Ashford orders more foundation concrete than any other town we cover, and the reason is straightforward. Housing is going in on the southern and western edges, and the logistics and distribution belt around Sevington and Waterbrook is still adding units. Both are foundation-heavy by nature.
That produces two orders of magnitude side by side. Domestic and small-development work runs to strip footings and trench fill for houses, extensions and garages, ordered against a depth building control has agreed on the open trench. Commercial work runs to pad and strip foundations for portal-framed units, ordered against a designation on a drawing, in volumes that need a delivery sequence rather than a single load.
Getting a loaded mixer to a trench on a live plot
Foundations go in early, which on an Ashford development means the plot has almost no finished ground to drive on yet. Wide estate roads, often still unadopted, get the vehicle onto the site easily. They do not get it to the trench.
Two questions decide the rest. Will the running surface carry a fully loaded lorry, given that a digger crossed it without complaint and weighs a fraction of what a full mixer does. And can the vehicle get within chute reach of the trench and then turn or reverse back out. On a large open plot the second question is usually about distance rather than obstruction, which is a different problem from the one an older Kent town poses and it has different answers.
Where either answer is no, the pour goes in by pump, or by a smaller vehicle making more trips. Raising it at enquiry costs nothing. Discovering it with a batched load standing on the road costs the load’s working window.
Getting an Ashford foundation pour under way
Send the trench dimensions, the depth building control has agreed, whether you are pouring strip or trench fill, and what the ground between the road and the trench is currently like. 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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Ready-mix concrete delivered across Ashford, from new plots on the southern edge to the distribution units at Sevington.