Ready-mix concrete for footings and foundations in Broadstairs

Extension footings behind villas are the common job, usually a modest run of trench serving a rear or side addition on a plot that has already been built on once. Conversion work adds a second kind: pad and strip footings taken inside an existing building where a floor level, a staircase or a load path has changed, and small foundations for garden rooms and outbuildings at the back of the plot.

Trench runs are short, volumes are small, and the concrete has a long way to travel for the amount of it there is.

Getting a mixer to a trench in Broadstairs

Foundations come early in a job, and early is when a site has least finished ground to work with. In most towns the question is whether the ground will carry a loaded lorry. In Broadstairs it is usually whether the lorry gets anywhere near the trench at all.

Where the excavation is behind a converted villa with no side or rear entry, the concrete travels through the building. That rules a chute out and it puts a real limit on how quickly the trench can be filled, which matters because trench fill is normally supplied at a higher consistence so that it flows along the excavation and levels itself. Flowing concrete arriving by barrow, in stages, loses the advantage that made it worth ordering.

A line pump run through the property fills a trench continuously and is often the difference between a planned pour and a long afternoon. On the cliff-top roads around the bays, add the seasonal parking position when you pick a date, because the standing position has to be legal as well as close.

Getting a Broadstairs foundation pour under way

Send the trench dimensions, the depth building control has agreed, whether you are pouring strip or trench fill, and the route the concrete would take from the kerb. Your quotation, delivery and payment are agreed directly with the approved supplier appointed to your pour.

**Sideways links:** footings and foundations in Ramsgate, footings and foundations in Margate.