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Piling concrete in Yeovil
Concrete for CFA and bored piles, batched to the engineer’s or piling contractor’s specification at our Yeovil plant on Gazelle Road, with Taunton and Amesbury behind it when the job needs more.
Concrete for piling
Concrete for piling, batched in Yeovil
S. Morris has made and delivered concrete in Somerset for more than a hundred years. Concrete for piling is one of the specialist mixes we produce, alongside standard ready mixed concrete, self compacting concrete, foam concrete and concrete with waterproof additives. Most of the piling work we supply is CFA, with some bored piles.
Yeovil Readymix, on Gazelle Road, Yeovil, BA20 2PJ, batches ready mixed concrete for south Somerset and into Dorset. It is the plant closest to a piling job in Yeovil and the villages around it, and it has the full fleet working from it. It is not the only plant that makes our piling mixes: Taunton and Amesbury batch them too, so a larger job, or one nearer Taunton or Wiltshire, can be supplied from the plant that suits it best.
Every load is batched on our own plant, delivered on our own trucks and made under a quality system to ISO 9001, assessed by BSI. Our ready mixed concrete is produced to BS EN 206-1 and BS 8500-2, the standards a piling engineer will expect to see on the delivery ticket.
How a pile takes its concrete
CFA piles and bored piles: what the concrete has to do
A piling mix is not the same as concrete for a slab or a footing. The way the pile is formed decides how the concrete has to behave, which is why the mix is set by the engineer or the piling contractor, not chosen off a list. Choose a pile to see how it is concreted.
Continuous flight auger piles
A continuous flight auger is drilled into the ground to the depth of the pile. As the auger is drawn back out, concrete is pumped down its hollow stem and fills the hole from the bottom up. The reinforcement cage is then pushed down into the wet concrete.
So the concrete has to:
- pump well down the auger’s stem;
- flow under its own weight to fill the hole;
- stay workable long enough for the cage to go in;
- arrive in a steady run, because a CFA pile is concreted in one go as the auger comes out.
Bored piles
The hole is bored first, often with a temporary casing to hold the ground back, and the concrete is placed from the bottom up through a tremie pipe. In some ground the hole holds water or a support fluid, which the concrete pushes out as it rises.
So the concrete has to:
- flow freely down the tremie pipe;
- compact itself, with no vibration;
- hold together as it is placed and rises up the hole.
In both cases the concrete goes where nobody can see it or work it once it is in. It has to be right in the truck.
Mixed to the engineer’s or piling contractor’s specification
We batch piling concrete to the engineer’s or the piling contractor’s specification. Send it to us with the order and we batch to it.
A piling specification will usually set these, and the plant works from the document you send rather than from a standard list:
The standards behind every load
Our quality system runs to ISO 9001 and is assessed by a third party, BSI. Ready mixed concrete is produced to BS EN 206-1 and BS 8500-2, and our environmental management runs to ISO 14001. These are the standards behind every load we send to a piling rig, and the ones your engineer can check us against. Our in-house technical department tests raw materials and finished products every day, and the standards of quality page sets out how.
| Quality system | ISO 9001, assessed by a third party (BSI) |
|---|---|
| Ready mixed concrete | BS EN 206-1 and BS 8500-2 |
| Floor screed | BS EN 13813 |
| Concrete blocks | EN 771-3, CE marked |
| Environmental management | ISO 14001 |
Data sheets, certificates and our terms of sale are on the downloads page, free and with no login.
Which plant serves your site?
Choose your postcode area and we will tell you which plant to ring.
TA postcodes — your nearest plant is Taunton Readymix, Off Priorswood Road, Taunton TA2 8DF. 01823 274545Ring to confirm delivery and book a slot. Blocks, aggregates and screed all come from Tout Quarry — 01458 223991.
BA postcodes — your nearest plant is Yeovil Readymix, Gazelle Road, Yeovil BA20 2PJ. 01935 479155Ring to confirm delivery and book a slot. Blocks, aggregates and screed all come from Tout Quarry — 01458 223991.
BS postcodes — your nearest plant is Yeovil Readymix, Gazelle Road, Yeovil BA20 2PJ. 01935 479155Ring to confirm delivery and book a slot. Blocks, aggregates and screed all come from Tout Quarry — 01458 223991.
DT postcodes — your nearest plant is Yeovil Readymix, Gazelle Road, Yeovil BA20 2PJ. 01935 479155Ring to confirm delivery and book a slot. Blocks, aggregates and screed all come from Tout Quarry — 01458 223991.
SP postcodes — your nearest plant is Amesbury Readymix, Solar Way, Amesbury SP4 7SZ. 01980 622130Ring to confirm delivery and book a slot. Blocks, aggregates and screed all come from Tout Quarry — 01458 223991.
SN postcodes — your nearest plant is Amesbury Readymix, Solar Way, Amesbury SP4 7SZ. 01980 622130Ring to confirm delivery and book a slot. Blocks, aggregates and screed all come from Tout Quarry — 01458 223991.
BH postcodes — your nearest plant is Amesbury Readymix, Solar Way, Amesbury SP4 7SZ. 01980 622130Ring to confirm delivery and book a slot. Blocks, aggregates and screed all come from Tout Quarry — 01458 223991.
EX postcodes — your nearest plant is Taunton Readymix, Off Priorswood Road, Taunton TA2 8DF. 01823 274545Ring to confirm delivery and book a slot. Blocks, aggregates and screed all come from Tout Quarry — 01458 223991.
Where piling mixes come from
Three plants behind every piling job
Piling mixes come from three of our plants. The plant that supplies your job is the one that suits where the site is and how much concrete it needs. All three are open 07.00 to 17.00, Monday to Friday, and each has the full fleet of mixers working from it.
Yeovil Readymix
South Somerset and into Dorset: Yeovil, Sherborne, Ilchester and the villages between. The plant closest to a piling job in Yeovil.
01935 479155 Gazelle Road, Yeovil, SomersetBA20 2PJ
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Taunton Readymix
West Somerset and into Devon.
01823 274545 Off Priorswood Road, Taunton, SomersetTA2 8DF
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Amesbury Readymix
Wiltshire, Salisbury Plain and into Hampshire.
01980 622130 Solar Way, Amesbury, WiltshireSP4 7SZ
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A piling job in Yeovil
Piling at Yeovil College with Vibro Menard
We supplied concrete for Vibro Menard’s piling at Yeovil College. A college site in the middle of Yeovil is the kind of job our Yeovil plant is there for: close to the site, on roads our drivers know, and supplied to the piling contractor’s own specification.
Ring Yeovil Readymix 01935 479155Pile calculator
How much concrete is in your piles?
Put in the number of piles, their diameter and their depth from the drawings, and the calculator works out the concrete in them. The figures go into the quote with one press, so you only type them once.
This is the volume of the piles as drawn, at about 2.4 tonnes a cubic metre. Your engineer or piling contractor will say what to allow over that for the ground.
Ordering piling concrete in Yeovil
- Send us the mix: the engineer’s or piling contractor’s specification.
- Tell us how much: the number of piles, their diameter and depth, or simply the total volume.
- Tell us when and where: the date, the start time, and the site address or its what3words.
- Ring Yeovil Readymix on 01935 479155, or email sales@smorris.co.uk.
Our own fleet
Getting the concrete to the rig
Six and eight wheel mixers
The standard fleet, for foundations, floors and bases and for construction, industrial and agricultural work. These are the trucks that feed a piling rig’s pump or tremie. Tracking systems are fitted to our trucks, so we can give you accurate delivery timescales.
Conveyor trucks
A belt conveyor carries the concrete away from the back of the truck, up to 17 metres, and swings through a full 180 degrees. Where the pour is out of reach of the mixer’s chute, such as pile caps and ground beams behind the piles, the conveyor truck puts the concrete where it is needed without a dumper, a skid-steer loader or a pump.
Mini-mix
Smaller than a standard truck mixer, carrying up to 3.5 cubic metres, for small quantities and for foundations where access is tight. See mini-mix.
After the piles
Concrete for the rest of the job
Piles are the start of a building, not the end of it. The same plant that batched the piling concrete can supply what goes on top of them, and the rest of what we make comes from our own plants too.
For piling contractors working in our area
We supply piling contractors as and when they are working in our area, whether that is one job in Yeovil or a run of sites across Somerset, Dorset and Wiltshire.
Ring the plant nearest the site with the specification and the programme, and we will tell you which plant will supply it. Orders are taken by production plant personnel, not a call centre, so the person you talk to is the one who will batch and load the concrete.
Accounts and payment
You do not need an account to order. Payment is made before delivery unless the order is on an approved credit account, and trade customers can apply for a credit account using the form on our downloads page.
Questions about piling concrete
Which piles do you supply concrete for?
Which plant will supply my job?
What mix do you use for piling?
Is your concrete quality assured?
Do you supply piling contractors?
Do I need an account?
Who takes the order?
When are you open?
More answers about ordering, delivery and paperwork are on our frequently asked questions page.