About
A small crew. Residential concrete, done well.
Who we are
Sale-based, Gippsland-wide.
TMT Concreting & Maintenance is a small concrete crew working out of Sale, Victoria. Nick MacDonald is the bloke running it. Kiwi by background, qualified concreter, on the road across Gippsland most weeks.
We do residential. Driveways and crossovers, pool surrounds, house and shed slabs, exposed aggregate, decorative finishes. We don’t do commercial. We don’t do tilt-up. Just residential concrete in towns we know, done well.
How we work
What hiring TMT actually looks like.
The site visit
Nick rocks up to the site himself, has a proper look. He measures up, checks the fall, sees what access is like, talks through what’d work for the spot. We need eyes on the site to quote it properly, so we don’t do square-metre rates over the phone.
The quote
Written quote with line items spelled out. Excavation, base prep, steel, formwork, concrete spec, finish. If something changes the price changes and we tell you why. Nothing turns up at invoice time you didn’t already know about.
The work
When we say Tuesday, we mean Tuesday. Most of the time on a job is the prep: edge forms, fall, steel. Boring stuff to look at, but it’s where a slab earns its forty years.
After the pour
Workmanship warranty applies to every pour. We clean up before we leave, take the rubbish with us, brief you on cure times. Anything needs a look later, ring us and we come back.
From Nick
A bit about me and the work.
I got into concrete because I liked the work. There’s something satisfying about the set-out, the pour, the look of a slab that’s gone right. It’s hard yakka, but a job done properly is something you can be proud of, and it sticks around for forty-odd years.
I’m a Kiwi originally, came over from New Zealand a few years back and settled in Sale. Got my qualifications here, kept at the work, and at some point figured I’d give it a crack on my own. That’s where TMT came from.
The crew is small on purpose. Two to four of us depending on the job. I’d rather pour fewer slabs and do them properly than chase volume and let the prep slip. Most concrete jobs come down to the bits you don’t see. The box-up, the steel, the fall. Boring stuff to think about, but that’s where a slab earns its years.
I run every quote myself. I’m on every site I quote, and I write the quote up before I leave the driveway. No square-metre guess over the phone. No “I’ll get back to you” that goes nowhere. If I say I’ll ring Tuesday, I ring Tuesday.
Most of our work is within an hour of Sale. Wellington Shire, the Latrobe Valley, the Lakes country, the cattle flats out west. After a few years working across Gippsland, you learn the soils, the councils, what each shire wants at inspection. That kind of local knowledge ends up saving the customer money, because we don’t pour every block the same way.
If you’ve got a job in mind, give us a call or book a site visit. I’ll come and have a proper look. If we can do it, we’ll quote it and book it in. If it’s outside what we do, like commercial work or tilt-up, I’ll tell you straight and point you at someone who handles it.
Workmanship warranty applies to every pour. If something doesn’t sit right after the job, ring me. I’d rather know about it and sort it than have someone standing on a slab wishing they’d gone with somebody else.
Fair quote. Work shows up when it’s meant to. Prep done properly. Finish you can stand on.
Nick MacDonaldQualified Concreter, TMT