Concrete for footings and foundations in Sevenoaks

Sevenoaks foundation work is domestic and substantial. Trenches for significant extensions, garden room and studio bases, pool and plant room foundations, outbuilding and stable footings, and occasionally a retaining structure that has been designed rather than assumed.

The house usually sits well back from the road, so the trench is somewhere in the middle or at the far end of the grounds, and the drive between them was built for cars.

Reaching a trench that sits beyond the drive

This is the defining Sevenoaks constraint and a foundation is where it costs the most. The public road is usually fine. The private drive beyond the gate is the problem, because it is frequently gravel or unmade, gated at a fixed width, and overhung by canopy that limits vehicle height on the approach lane before anyone has measured the excavation.

A foundation makes it worse in two ways. The load is often larger than a garden pour, so the vehicle is heavier when it matters most. And trench fill is supplied to flow, which is the wrong property for a long barrow run down a drive the owner does not want damaged.

The practical answer is to keep the vehicle at or near the entrance and move the concrete the rest of the way. A boom pump reaches over the drive without touching it. A line pump runs a hose along the edge. Either way the drive survives, and on these properties that is part of the job rather than an afterthought.

What settles a Sevenoaks foundation

The trench dimensions and agreed depth, the drive length and surface, the gate width, and any overhanging trees on the lane. 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.