Mini-mix concrete delivery in Chatham

The hillside terraces produce a constant flow of work that suits a small load: rear garden and patio bases, shed and store bases, step and path pours, gate post concrete, garden wall footings, and the oversite under a small extension.

The plots are narrow and the volumes are modest, so the alternative is usually a barrow mixer, and that trade is worse than it looks. A mini-mix load arrives at a known designation, mixed properly, in one delivery, and the ticket records what was supplied. On a garden wall footing or a post base that record matters more than people expect if the work is ever questioned later.

Why a shorter vehicle changes the answer on a Chatham hill

Everywhere else the mini-mix argument is width. In Chatham it is width and gradient together, and the gradient is what makes a smaller vehicle genuinely different rather than marginally better.

A fully loaded mixer has to hold the slope for the whole discharge, on a street that is narrow, frequently one-way and parked on both sides. On a hill the number of positions where that is safe and legal is small, and it is not always near the work. A shorter vehicle fits more of them, and that is the practical difference.

Before the day, measure the narrowest point on the approach including any pinch between parked cars, note anything overhead, and work out the distance from the standing position to the pour, because even a smaller vehicle discharges down a chute with a limited reach. Where the pour is above the street, a line pump is usually the better answer than more barrow trips uphill.

Ordering a mini-mix load in Chatham

Send the volume or the dimensions, the street, and whether the pour is above the standing position or below it. 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.