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Heritage Buildings or Areas of Historic importance often have individual and historically important traditionally paved areas around them. Of course this has to retain its original appearance, but today these areas are also frequently required to accommodate modern living and need to be integrated into our modern City infrastructure - particularly around many historic buildings such as our Cathedrals and Churches, Town Halls, Old Market Squares and other types of Conservation Areas.

Paving Jointing Mortars for Heritage Areas

Unfortunately this means that the demands of modern road traffic and Mechanical Street Cleaning machines are imposed on them and then the traditional lime or cement based paving jointing materials (even the more modern polymer modified ones), are unable to cope with these severe additional exposure requirements. This is particularly the case in refurbishment situations brought about by the inevitable breakdown and failure of the cement based jointing mortars. i.e. there are wide and varied joint widths / depths, residual water in the joints, minimal closure periods are possible due to access etc., then there is the additional vibration and abrasion from increased frequency and loading of vehicular traffic, plus aggressive Mechanical Street Cleaning machines and the use of de-icing salts in winter.

There are also additional environmental demands in refurbishment projects, as these areas are often in almost constant use. These additional requirements in these situations can include that the jointing mortars are stored, mixed and placed without creating dust; that they are moisture-tolerant during application and hardening, that they are fast to apply and harden rapidly allowing fast reopening of the areas, plus they must be non staining on traditional stone surfaces.