Volumetric concrete mixed on site in Tonbridge

Tonbridge has a reason to mix on site that has nothing to do with the pour, and it is worth putting first because it is the town’s own.

Everything reaching a Tonbridge address passes effectively one crossing on the High Street, and there is no alternative route to fall back on. A pour supplied as a sequence of drum loads is exposed to that point once per load. A volumetric mixer is exposed to it once, then stays.

On the pour itself the ordinary arguments apply. Grounds work at the schools and sports grounds throws up genuinely uncertain quantities, established Victorian gardens are rarely level, and an extension oversite on an old plot takes what it takes. Most of our approved suppliers work on a pay-for-what-you-use basis, so the figure is settled at the end.

Where the vehicle can position in Tonbridge

The requirements are firm standing, room to position and clearance to work the discharge auger, and they have to hold for a session rather than a discharge.

Off the High Street the Victorian streets running away from it are narrow, so a large vehicle needs its standing position agreed in advance rather than found on arrival, and on many of those addresses the answer will be that it does not fit. Higham Wood, the school and sports ground sites, and the larger established plots are where it does.

The usual checks then apply: overhead cables and branches on mature streets, and whether a soakaway, inspection chamber or tank sits under the ground the vehicle would occupy for the session.

Arranging a Tonbridge volumetric pour

Name the street and which side of the crossing it is on, say what you are pouring, and give your best estimate and how firm it is. 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.