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As a leading supplier of ready mixed concrete, DK Concrete have the right materials you need to complete your project on time and under budget. With our concrete delivery service you can have the concrete dropped exactly where you need it, with our vast fleet we will have the vehicle to fulfil your request.
When choosing our volumetrics we will help to save you money by only giving you the correct amount of concrete on site so that you can get exactly what you need without over or under ordering.
Our barrel mixer fleet will aid you on your pre orders.
Our expert team will assist and can assess your requirements, making sure you get the right type and quantity of concrete.
For smaller jobs, we can pour your concrete into your wheelbarrow, you only need to ask our operator. If pushing a wheelbarrow of concrete sounds like too much hard work, then we can also pour it into a pump – we have contact with several companies who are able to supply pumps.
You can have anything from 1m³ upwards. It’s your choice based on what you need. We currently operate 10 vehicles, each capable of delivering up to 7m³ per load and we are expanding all the time. Recently, we have introduced a new fleet of barrel mixers which are now in operation.
We operate an out of hours service, thus saving the large expense of paying to have a batching plant opened on your behalf.
The volumetric batching plant lorries were invented in 1975, in order to deliver multiple batches of concrete to several customers of the same lorry with zero waste.
Until 1975, barrel mixers had the stronghold on the market. These barrels only carry one strength at a time and has to be delivered to the customer within 2 hours, before the concrete go off and turns hard.
Drum mixers can carry up to 8m³ of one concrete mix, where a Volumetric (VCM) carry all the ingredients in separate containers:
Volumetrics are heavier because they carry an auger, mixing equipment and conveyer belts. This eliminates the need for a second pump lorry.
VCMs tackle concrete and water wastage. Drums concrete waste goes into landfill Volumetrics produce no waste.
Volumetrics cannot carry more than 8.5 to 9.5m³ fully loaded. It is not possible to get more than 10m³ of a volumetric
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