Ready-mix concrete for footings and foundations in Herne Bay

Rear extension footings dominate. A bungalow extended at the back takes a trench run across the rear elevation and returns down one or both sides, which is a longer run than the footprint suggests. Garden room and studio bases add shallower foundations further down the plot again, and garage and outbuilding footings sit off to one side.

On the newer estates towards Greenhill and Hillborough the foundation work is more conventional, dug on plots where the house sits closer to the road.

Getting a mixer to a trench in Herne Bay

Foundations are poured after building control has inspected the open trench, so the date follows the inspection. Once it does, Herne Bay poses a distance problem rather than a vehicle one.

The road takes the mixer and there is somewhere to stand. What there is not, on most bungalow plots, is a route down the side of the house wide enough for anything but a barrow. Trench fill is normally supplied to flow along the excavation and level itself, and that only works if it arrives as a continuous supply. Fed down a side path in barrow loads, it stiffens between deliveries and the trench ends up worked rather than poured.

That makes a line pump the sensible default on a deep plot, because a hose runs down the side passage and puts the concrete straight into the trench. Where the run is shorter, a smaller vehicle that gets its discharge point closer to the side entrance shortens every trip.

Setting up a Herne Bay footing pour

Send the trench dimensions, the agreed depth, strip or trench fill, and the distance from the kerb to the nearest point of the excavation. Your quotation, delivery and payment are agreed directly with the approved supplier appointed to your pour.

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