The traditional granite sett paving of the historic Hitchin Market Square in Hertfordshire, was refurbished and repointed with GftK's vdw 850 Paving Joint Mortar eight years ago.
Faced with the prospect of having to lift and re-lay the whole square, at huge cost, the Local Authority and their Consultants undertook some tests and decided to have one last roll of the dice with what looked like a very promising product: GftK’s vdw 850 from NCC Streetscape Ltd.
Like many old town centres and market squares, this is a very demanding environment for paving, particularly the pointing, due to multiple heavy duty loadings and all sorts of different traffic and exposure, plus the frequent mechanical street cleaning.
However, this time the project was not only successful, but also completed on time and on budget, because work could continue and be completed using vdw 850, even despite the wet weather and low temperatures throughout (carried out in November), which would have made any cement based or single-pack pointing mortar useless and doomed to failure.
