The jobs where nothing else will reach
Waterfront foundations, wooded lots, tight infill and after hours pours. Two of the eight photos on our own Google listing are exactly this work.
Coastal and riverfront foundations
Their listing carries two photographs of waterfront work. One is a set of column forms braced and standing on a Gulf front lot with open blue water on the horizon. The other is footings excavated on a riverfront parcel, palms and mangrove across the water, a boat at a dock behind, and the boom pipe coming down into the dig.
Waterfront foundations are a different job from a slab in a subdivision. The parcels are narrow, the access is one driveway with a house on each side, the soils are sand and often saturated, and the structure usually stands on piles or piers, which means tall forms and deep placement rather than a flat pour.
There is also nowhere to put anything. On a fifty foot lot between two houses you cannot stage six mixer trucks, and you certainly cannot barrow. The pump sits in the one spot that works and everything else routes through the boom.
Wooded lots and infill
A pine lot with the pad cleared and nothing else touched is the other version of the same problem. The clearing stops at the building envelope, which is correct for the trees and terrible for access, so the concrete has to come in over standing timber rather than through it.
Their night pour photograph is one of these. The slab is formed and sheeted with vapor barrier, the pines are close in on every side, and the white boom pipe is coming down through the middle of it under work lights.
Working outside the middle of the day
That photograph is worth saying out loud: it is a night pour. Placing outside daylight is normal on commercial jobs, on frontage where the road has to stay open during business hours, and in a Florida summer where placing at four in the afternoon means fighting the set the entire time.
Their published hours are Monday to Friday, eight to five, and the site does not promise anything outside that. What the photograph shows is that pours outside those hours have happened. Ask on the call and get an answer for your job rather than assuming either way.
What to tell us about a difficult site
The distance from where a truck can park to the furthest corner of the pour. What is overhead. What the ground is like where the truck would set up, especially if it is sand, fill or anything that was open in the last month. Whether there is a seawall, a bulkhead or a slope near the setup point. Photographs of the approach and of the pour area beat any description.
Send that and the answer on the call is a real one. Call (813) 991-4544.
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What 35 homeowners said
Every quote below is a real review, word for word, from our Google profile.
Man, First time using K&R and these guys do it and do it right. Corey and Chris are top notch pump guys that put it in there right. I will only use this company for now on. If I could give 10 stars I would. I been around concrete a long time and these are model employees that you want to represent your company well.
We had a wonderful experience with the crew from K&R. They showed up 30 minutes early, let us know about an issue with our supplier, and talked us through the entire process. They went above and beyond by helping us (first time DIYers) out, giving us advice and tips, and when it started pouring rain they even helped us hoist up the tarp to get the job done. We are so pleased with the service we received and would highly recommend K&R.
We used K&R to pump our house foundation, 50+ yards of concrete. These guys showed up on time and ready to work. They were super nice, and helpful. They jumped right in to lend a hand, going above and beyond what they needed to do. I would highly recommend this company. Its super hard to find good workers these days but these guys are it!
I've been using K and R for 3 years now. And they are my main concrete pumping contractor. Very happy with their work. Always on time
The owners of this business were very outgoing, willing to help out with whatever my needs were and made sure that I was 100% satisfied. Most important, they were the most kind people that I have ever dealt with.
Just want to give a big shout out to Kenny and Rhonda you guys are awesome slab turned out great and all I can say is you guys are always the easiest people to get along with and I really appreciate you guys
Think you have a problem up there? We will look at it, free.
With pads, and after somebody has looked at it. Dry compacted sand is workable. Loose fill, a saturated swale or a recently backfilled trench is where outriggers punch through, and that gets decided on site before the concrete is called, not during the pour.
Not a number we would give over the internet. A seawall has a surcharge limit and a loaded pump truck on outriggers concentrates a lot of weight, so it depends on the wall, the soil behind it and where the tiebacks are. It gets looked at.
One of the photographs on our own Google listing is a night pour, so it has happened. Our published hours are Monday to Friday, eight to five. Ask about your specific job on the call.
Common on a new build and usually fine, because the truck needs firm ground rather than pavement. What matters is whether the approach will carry a loaded truck without it sinking, which is a five minute look.
We photograph the work and show you. If hard access & waterfront pours is not what you actually need, we say so and quote the work that is.
We cover concrete pumping, house foundations & footings, slabs, pads & flatwork, hard access & waterfront pours, concrete delivery and concrete orders & scheduling. Every one of them has its own page with what is included.
Tell us about the pour.
The date, the yardage and where a truck can park. That is most of what we need to give you a number.