NCC Steetscape and contractor CR Services have completed project was for a customer operating his building business from the storage yard at his home, which was accessed by a private granite cobble paved road that was also used for access by a neighbouring joinery company and their vans and deliveries.
The farmer of the adjacent fields also had right of access along the road for his tractors.
In late Autumn, 2015 the owner had refurbished the granite paving and used traditional sand and cement to refurbish the joints on the total 330m2 of granite paving. Unfortunately, by late 2016 this had already started to crack and break-up after less than a year, with total failure inevitable.
The owner decided to try and find a way repoint the cobbles with a product that would be able to withstand the exposure to harsh winter weathering and heavy vehicle traffic.
Inevitably their research led to NCC Streetscape, who were able to solve all these problems with the use of GftK’s vdw 850plus, a unique, high performance and extremely durable, two-part epoxy resin based paving joint mortar.
The works were completed by CR Services in early 2017 using a phased approach to facilitate minimal disruption, which inevitably also meant that the repointing works had to be carried out in the full range of cold, wet, dry, and hot conditions, but all of this was no problem using vdw 850+.
In fact, the owners were so impressed that they also had their front and rear patio paving cleaned and repointed as well. Site inspection nearly 4 years later shows the paving is still in perfect condition today.
