Volumetric concrete mixed on site in Tunbridge Wells

The town’s villa plots produce uncertain volumes as a matter of routine. Terrace and seating area bases cut into a fall, step and landing arrangements, the toe of a designed retaining structure, garden room slabs on ground that steps down, and make-up where an old wall or path has come out.

Because the plot is not flat, the depth is rarely constant, and a figure calculated from a plan is an estimate rather than a quantity. Most of our approved suppliers work on a pay-for-what-you-use basis, which is what makes that manageable rather than a gamble.

Positioning a large vehicle on a protected, falling frontage

Two constraints arrive together here and both work against this particular vehicle.

The gradient means villa drives commonly fall away from the road, and a volumetric mixer needs firm, reasonably level standing with room to position and clearance for the discharge auger. Backing one down a falling drive it may not be able to climb out of is not a manoeuvre worth attempting, so the standing position is usually on the road.

The conservation layer then fixes how long a vehicle may occupy that road and what may be brought onto the frontage, and a volumetric pour is a session rather than a stop, which is the harder thing to obtain.

The combination that works is to hold the vehicle on the road and pump the concrete down to the pour. That keeps the uncertain quantity manageable and gets the material to a garden that falls away behind the house, which is where it usually has to go.

What we need for a Tunbridge Wells volumetric pour

What you are pouring, your best estimate, the fall of the drive, whether the property is in a conservation area, and where a vehicle could stand. 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.