Ready-mix concrete for footings and foundations in Deal

Behind the Georgian frontages the foundation work is small and awkward: pad footings for outbuildings, short strip runs for a rear addition on a plot with no spare ground, and support work inside buildings where a floor or a wall is being altered under conservation constraints.

At Sholden, Mongeham and Mill Hill it is ordinary domestic foundation work. Extension trenches, garage bases and outbuilding footings on plots with room to work, dug and inspected in the normal way.

Getting a mixer to a trench in Deal

Foundations are inspected before they are covered, so the delivery is booked around the inspection result rather than ahead of it. That is true everywhere. What is specific to Deal is what happens once the trench has passed.

In the core, one-way Georgian streets and conservation restrictions mean the standing position is fixed by the street rather than chosen for the job, and it is often round a corner from the excavation. Trench fill is normally supplied to flow along the trench and level itself, and that property is worth having only if the concrete reaches the trench as a continuous supply. Barrowed in stages round a one-way system, it is not.

So a central Deal footing is usually a mini-mix job with a planned standing window, or a line pump run from wherever the vehicle is allowed to be. On the estates the ordinary rule applies instead: get the loaded lorry within chute reach if the ground will carry it, and check that it can turn or reverse out again before it commits.

Setting up a Deal footing pour

Send the trench length, width and agreed depth, say whether you are pouring strip or trench fill, and say which half of Deal the address is in. Your quotation, delivery and payment are agreed directly with the approved supplier appointed to your pour.

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