Concrete for footings and foundations in Sittingbourne

North and east of the town the industrial and light commercial estates order pad and strip foundations for new units, plinths and holding-down bases for plant, and ground beams, usually against a specification that names the designation and, where a ground investigation exists, the sulfate class.

The domestic side is the familiar work. Rear extension trenches, garage and outbuilding footings and porch bases, comfortable on the newer estates and much tighter in the older streets around Milton Regis and the town centre.

A booked slot has to be long enough for the trench

On the estates road width was never the constraint. What governs the delivery is the gate: an induction, a permit, a nominated route and a slot that has to be kept.

That is where a foundation differs from a smaller pour. A trench holds the vehicle stationary for the whole discharge, and a long trench holds it for a while, so the slot has to be booked for the pour rather than for the delivery. Those are different numbers and the difference is where sites run into trouble. Where the trench sits away from the road inside a plot, there is usually room for a boom pump to set up, and permits normally have to cover it as well as the mixer.

In the older streets the constraint is ordinary. Narrow carriageways, heavy parking, and few legal places to stand and discharge, so mini-mix is the sensible default with a barrow run or a line pump covering the last stretch to a rear trench.

Setting up a Sittingbourne foundation delivery

For a site, send the induction and permit requirements with the trench dimensions and designation. For a domestic job, send the street and the standing position. 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.