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Outdoor Engineering
Granite Sett Re-pointing for
Sheffield Peace Gardens

Wet weather pointing
to withstand street cleaning

The natural
stone paving
through the
Peace Gardens
in Sheffield
has been
refurbished for
Sheffield City
Council using
GftK’s vdw
850 Paving
Jointing Mortar
from NCC
Streetscape.
The natural stone paving was
becoming loose and subject
to damage due to the typical
cracking and loss of strength
problems associated with
traditional and proprietary
cement based jointing mortars
that had all been tried without
success.
The Council’s Engineers and
their Contractor found the ideal
solution was the unique; epoxy
resin bound sand based, vdw
850 Paving joint Mortar from
NCC Streetscape. This also
enabled all of the work to be
successfully completed and
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without having to completely
close any areas of the gardens.
Any visible damage was
removed, the areas high
pressure water jet cleaned, any
loose stone setts rebounded
in position and then the joints
simply wet-slurry pointed with the
vdw 850, which self-compacts
into the joints. The surface is
rinsed and then dry brushedoff and within a short period of
time can be reopened for public
access - also with no delays for
cold or wet weather.

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Bellshill
Town Centre
redevelopment
for North
Lanarkshire
Council
has been
completed by
jointing the
traditional
Granite Sett
paving to the
Town Centre
roads and
pathways using GftK’s unique
vdw 850 Paving Joint Mortar
from NCC Streetscape.
The Porphyry Granite Sett and
Caithness Stone Paving had
to be securely grouted despite
the wet weather conditions,
then to be able to maintain its
appearance for many years,
despite the regular use of
powerful mechanical street
cleaning machines.
The construction team selected
the vdw 850 Paving Joint
Mortar following a detailed
evaluation of the whole street-

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works and paving operations,
including the costs of all of the
alternative grout options, the
required materials, labour and
equipment, plus the limitations
imposed by the weather. This
advanced paving jointing mortar
can be applied quickly, even in
wet and rainy weather, or at low
temperatures. This allowed the
tight programme to continue
without delays due to the
unpredictable Scottish weather
going into the winter.

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