Can you pave a working office car park?

Yes, in sections and largely outside business hours. We agree the sequence with building management first so that access, parking and any ambulance or delivery route stay available throughout. It costs more in programme than a straightforward closure and it is the only workable arrangement.

Why do loading bays need such a heavy build-up?

Reversing lorries apply the worst load paving takes: heavy axles, turning under power, repeatedly in the same place. Service yards get 80mm on a substantially deeper base, or in some cases a concrete slab, because block paving there is at the limit of what it is good for.

Plumber in Upper Hill, Nairobi

We cover Upper Hill including Upper Hill, Community, Hurlingham, Ralph Bunche Road, Elgon Road, Ngong Road end. Off Ngong Road, Valley Road and Ralph Bunche Road. Commercial buildings require a works permit and out-of-hours scheduling.

What is different about plumbing in Upper Hill

Upper Hill office parking on Ralph Bunche Road cannot close during business hours, so bays are paved overnight and at weekends in sections.
Service yards and loading bays behind the Upper Hill offices take reversing lorries, which is the heaviest turning load paving takes anywhere.
Buildings near the Upper Hill hospitals need ambulance and delivery access maintained throughout, so the sequence is agreed with management before work starts.

Paving in Upper Hill

Upper Hill is commercial paving in buildings that cannot stop operating, and the constraints are scheduling and load.

Working around a live building

Office parking cannot close during business hours. We section the area, work overnight and at weekends, and agree the sequence with building management before starting.

Near the hospitals that extends to keeping ambulance and delivery routes open at all times, which shapes the phasing more than anything technical does.

Loading bays are the hardest thing we pave

A reversing lorry applies heavy axle loads while turning under power, repeatedly, in the same few square metres. It is the worst case for block paving.

Those areas get 80mm on a substantially deeper base, and occasionally the honest answer is a concrete slab instead, block paving in a busy service yard is at the edge of what it is good for, and we will say so rather than lay it and be called back.

Drainage

Upper Hill’s drainage is constrained and largely built out. New paved areas frequently cannot simply connect, so attenuation or a soakaway becomes part of the design rather than an alternative to it.

What we are usually called out for in Upper Hill

Cabro paving Cabro laid on an engineered base with edge restraint, the two things that decide whether it lasts. Concrete slabs and hardstanding Yard slabs, parking bays and hardstanding, jointed and cured properly rather than poured and abandoned. Kerbs and edging Haunched kerbs and edging, the restraint without which paving spreads regardless of block quality. Drainage and falls Falls, channels and outfalls designed before laying, because paving concentrates water it did not create.

Landmarks we work around here: Ralph Bunche Road, Nairobi Hospital, Community roundabout, Elgon Road. See what cabro costs.