How do you deliver to a site on the service lane?

Carefully, and usually with a pump. The service lanes carry heavy matatu traffic and a mixer discharging in one blocks it completely, which creates pressure to rush a pour that should not be rushed. Pumping lets the truck stand in the least obstructive position and the concrete travel the rest of the way.

Is the superhighway good for delivery times?

The mainline is genuinely fast, so the distance from the plant matters less here than almost anywhere else we serve. What decides the schedule is the last stretch: getting off the highway, along the service lane and into position. We time the run to the site rather than to the junction.

Plumber in Thika Road, Nairobi

We cover Thika Road including Roysambu, Kasarani, Zimmerman, Githurai, Kahawa Sukari, Mirema, Garden Estate, Ruaraka. Along the Thika Superhighway, reached by service lanes. The mainline is fast and the service lanes are congested and narrow.

What is different about plumbing in Thika Road

Everything along Thika Road is reached from a service lane, and those lanes carry matatu traffic that a discharging mixer will obstruct completely.
Roysambu and Zimmerman are dense walk-up apartment blocks built to the plot edge, so pumping from the service lane is the normal method here.
The superhighway runs quickly, so a loaded mixer bound for Roysambu or Kasarani loses its time in the last few hundred metres of service lane, not on the run from the batching plant.

Concrete supply along Thika Road

The Thika Road corridor is the easiest long-distance run in our area and one of the harder final approaches.

The last three hundred metres

The superhighway does its job. A truck covers the distance quickly and predictably, and for once the plant-to-junction time is not the variable.

What governs the schedule is what happens after the exit. Service lanes here are narrow, busy with matatu traffic and lined with parked vehicles, and a mixer discharging in one stops the lane. That creates real pressure to hurry a pour, which is exactly the pressure that produces badly compacted concrete.

Pumping as the normal method

The walk-up apartment blocks at Roysambu, Zimmerman and Kasarani are built to the plot boundary with no site frontage to work from. The practical arrangement is a pump, with the truck standing where it obstructs least and the concrete travelling the remaining distance through a line.

Scheduling

We time the run to the site rather than to the highway exit, and on larger pours we space deliveries so that only one truck is ever in the service lane. Two mixers waiting on a Roysambu service lane will produce a complaint before they produce a slab.

What we are usually called out for in Thika Road

Concrete pumping Boom and line pumping booked with the pour, for suspended slabs and for sites a truck cannot reach. Ready-mix concrete supply Concrete batched to a stated class and delivered to your pour, with the volume calculated and the access checked first. Slab and foundation pours Continuous pours supplied on a delivery schedule matched to the placing rate, so a structural slab goes in monolithically. Precast products Fencing posts, wall panels, blocks and culvert rings, cast in controlled conditions and cured properly before they leave.

Landmarks we work around here: Thika Road Mall, Kenyatta University, Safari Park, Garden City Mall. See what ready-mix costs.