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Volumetric concrete for Crawley homes, builders and Manor Royal businesses. The truck carries the materials dry and mixes on site, so the concrete is fresh when it's poured even after the run from Surrey.
Yes, Surex Concrete delivers to Crawley. We cover the RH10 and RH11 neighbourhoods from Ifield to Forge Wood, plus Manor Royal, from our Effingham yard. Crawley is at the outer edge of our area, so it pays to book ahead.
Getting to Crawley
Crawley is about 30 miles and 40 minutes from our yard, the furthest of the towns we cover. With a drum mixer, 40 minutes plus traffic is time the concrete spends going off before it reaches you. A volumetric truck keeps the cement, sand, stone and water apart until it's on your site, then mixes the load as it pours.
It helps to book ahead. Ring the day before if you can, give us the postcode, and we'll agree a two hour arrival window that works around the traffic.
Pouring in Crawley
Most of Crawley was built as a new town in the 1950s and 60s, and a lot of it follows the Radburn layout. Houses face footpaths rather than roads, and the parking and garages sit in courts behind. That layout is easy to live in and awkward for a concrete delivery. The truck often can't get within chute distance of a front garden, and the rear court may be shared.
Under the town is Weald Clay over Tunbridge Wells Sand. Weald Clay shrinks in dry summers and swells in wet winters, more so near trees and hedges, so extension footings and garage bases here often go deeper than people expect. We batch to what the trench takes on the day.
Forge Wood, the newest neighbourhood with around 1,900 homes, was laid out differently from the older estates. Check the access house by house there rather than assuming either way.
Access and permissions
The estates were planned around cars parked behind the houses, not lorries at the front door.
Where the house faces a footpath, a line pump runs hose from the road or parking court up to about 100 metres to reach the front or back garden.
Crawley has a controlled parking zone. If the truck needs to stand in a permit bay, Crawley Borough Council handles suspensions and needs at least five working days' notice.
A new crossover for a driveway is licensed by West Sussex County Council and built by one of its approved contractors. Get that sorted before booking the driveway pour.
Guide figures only. On clay the engineer or building control officer will set the footing depth and sometimes the grade. Give us their spec and we'll batch it on site. Concrete grades explained.
Measure the pour, enter it below, then call us with the figure. A rough estimate is enough - we batch to what the job takes.
Measure the area you're filling - a slab, footing, trench or base. Mixed units are fine.
Suggested mix: Concrete grades explained
Fill in all three dimensions to see the volume. We include a 5% wastage allowance.
Minimum delivery of 1m³ not met. We'll still quote 1m³ for the pour. Call 0800 669 6500 if you're unsure.
Tell us the volume and postcode and we'll confirm the right mix, the price and a delivery slot.
Yes. Surex Concrete delivers volumetric concrete to Crawley, RH10 and RH11, including Manor Royal. Our yard in Effingham is about 30 miles and 40 minutes away, and the truck mixes on site so the concrete is fresh when it's poured.
Often not with the chute alone, because many 1950s and 60s homes face footpaths with parking courts behind. A line pump solves that by running concrete from the road through up to about 100 metres of hose.
Only if the truck has to stand in a controlled bay. Crawley Borough Council handles bay suspensions and needs at least five working days' notice, so apply before you book the pour.
Your building control officer or engineer decides, because Weald Clay moves with the seasons and trees make it worse. Footings of 1m or more are common. We batch on the day, so a deeper trench doesn't mean a second delivery.
Yes. We supply yard slabs, hardstanding and bases for Manor Royal units, from 1m³ up to full day pours, with the grade to your engineer's specification.
We deliver from 1m³. Orders under 3m³ carry a part load charge, and at 3m³ or more there isn't one.
Give us the postcode, a rough volume and how the truck gets in. We'll confirm the grade, the price and a delivery slot on the call.
Call 0800 669 6500Part of the Surex group · Effingham, Surrey
Tell us the job and the postcode - we'll confirm the mix, the volume and a delivery slot on the call.
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