Line pumps and boom pumps with experienced operators, pumping concrete over walls, into back gardens, up multi-storey buildings and across awkward sites where wheelbarrows simply won't work.
Concrete pump hire is the use of specialist pumping equipment to move concrete from the wagon to the pour location, through a flexible hose (line pump) or over the top of a building via a hydraulic boom. Pumping eliminates barrowing, accelerates pour rate, and reaches locations the wagon cannot.
Any builder, groundworker, or contractor pouring into a location with restricted access. Back gardens behind a terrace. First-floor slabs. Basement pours. Large slabs where barrowing would take a day. Sites with the wagon parked on the street and the pour 50m round the back.
Whenever access, height, distance or volume make direct discharge impractical. Common scenarios: house extensions where the wagon can't get round the back, ICF and structural walls, raft foundations on tight plots, upper-floor slabs in conversions, and any pour over 10m³ where pump throughput beats barrowing every time.
Pump operation is a skilled trade. Pump selection, set-up, line layout, slump management and pour-rate control are the difference between a smooth two-hour pour and an eight-hour disaster. Our experienced operators have set up on more South Wales back gardens, basements and upper-floor slabs than we can count.
Saying 'we'll just barrow it' has cost more main contractors than we can list. Here's what actually happens.
Barrowing concrete from front to back garden takes hours. The first batch starts setting before the last batch arrives, you've now created a cold joint and a weakness line through your slab.
Wheelbarrows of concrete trafficked across a finished driveway, a customer's lawn, or a neighbour's path lead to claims, rectification and reputational damage. Pumping eliminates the trafficking entirely.
A team of three barrowing for six hours is eighteen man-hours of expensive labour. A pump and one operator does the same pour in 90 minutes for less money, and your crew is free to fix, finish and clean up.
A 4-inch line pump can't move stiff structural concrete with 20mm aggregate. A boom pump is overkill for a 2m³ garden pour. We size the pump to the job, and we have both in the yard.
200m of horizontal line sounds like a lot until you measure your specific site. We do this on the site survey, every time.
Pump idle while wagons queue = wasted hire. Wagons idle while pump primes = wasted concrete time. Our operators manage the choreography so neither happens.
Call us with postcode, area and timing. We give you an indicative price on the spot, often within minutes.
For local jobs we visit, measure, and confirm specification for your concrete pump hire at no charge. Charges may apply for surveys further afield, agreed up front.
Written quotation in your inbox within one working day of the survey, confirming m² rate, mix design and a firm pour date. All quotes subject to site survey.
Our crew arrives on time with kit, pumps and labour. Continuous flow, level checks, and a clean handover at the end of shift.
Moisture testing on request and after-care guidance so the next trade can start with confidence.
What used to take a barrow team a day is done in two hours. Programme stays on track.
experienced operator with every hire. They manage set-up, pumping and clean-down, your crew focuses on the pour.
No barrowing means fewer back injuries, fewer slips, and a safer site for everyone.
Over walls, into basements, up multi-storey, across 200m of horizontal line. If concrete can flow, we can pump it there.
Once you cost in labour, time, site damage and rectification, pumping almost always works out cheaper than barrowing.
Concrete supply, pump hire and operator on one quote, one invoice, one point of contact.
Different pumps for different jobs. Here's what we run and when each one wins.
Trailer-mounted or truck-mounted pumps using flexible hose. Reach typically 100–200m horizontal, 30–40m vertical. Ideal for back-garden pours, slabs, ICF walls, footings, and most domestic and light-commercial work. Smaller footprint, lower hire cost, and excellent for awkward access.
Truck-mounted with a hydraulic placing boom, 24m, 28m, 32m and larger. Pump up and over without ground-level pipework. Ideal for upper-floor slabs, large open pours, structural concrete on multi-storey, and any pour where layout makes a line pump impractical.
Pumpable concrete needs the right slump (typically 100–150mm) and aggregate size matched to the line diameter. We work with the concrete supplier, usually us, to dial in a pumpable mix that still hits the engineer's strength spec. Stiff concrete blocks lines. Wet concrete fails cubes. We hit the middle every time.
Residential: domestic foundations, extensions, basements, garden slabs, typically 4–20m³ with a line pump. Commercial: structural slabs, multi-storey, large groundworks, typically 20–200m³ with line or boom depending on geometry. We size the pump and the crew to the job, not the job to whatever we happen to have free.
Set-up takes 30–60 minutes including outrigger checks, line lay-out and prime. Operators wear full PPE, brief the site team on no-go zones, and manage exclusion around the boom. Clean-down at the end of pour returns the hire kit to depot in pumpable condition for the next job, no wash-out left on your site.
Real photos from recent South Wales concrete pump hire jobs, pump set-ups, pour days and finished floors.
Line pumps from around £550–£850 per day with operator included, depending on reach and pour volume. Boom pumps from £900 upwards depending on size. Combined supply-and-pump quotes are usually cheaper than booking separately.
Line pumps reach 100–200m horizontally and 30–40m vertically depending on mix. Boom pumps reach 24–32m+ from the wagon parking position. We measure on the site survey.
We supply the pump and a experienced operator. You provide your usual placing and finishing crew, typically 2–3 trades for a domestic pour, more for commercial.
48 hours for guaranteed slots. Same-day possible subject to wagon and pump availability, call us early.
Yes, basement pours are one of the main use cases for line pumping. We bring the line down stairs or through an opening and discharge directly into formwork.
Typically 15–30m³ per hour for line pumps, 40–60m³ per hour for boom pumps, subject to mix and pour location. A standard 6m³ slab is usually placed in well under an hour.
Yes, combined volumetric concrete supply with pump hire as a single quote, single programme. One contractor handles the whole pour.
Yes, Cardiff, Newport, Swansea, Bridgend, Cwmbran, Torfaen, Vale of Glamorgan, Monmouthshire, and Hereford.
Tell us the postcode and the m². We give an indicative price on the call and firm it up in writing after a site survey.
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