Ultrascape Opens The Gateway To Liverpool
Liverpool Lime Street station is the gateway to Liverpool city
Small/intricate, vertical areas are often difficult to grout. Used in
centre. Its outside entrance area has been rejuvenated using
conjunction with Flowpoint, Ultrascape Cempoint, a hand-held
Ultrascape materials, complimenting the station’s Grade II
gun injected mortar, is ideal for such pointing and was used for
structure.
this project. Fast and easy to apply, with no wastage, it neatly
and directly fills the paving joint. Supplied as a pre-blended
The improvements were made using Pro-Bed HS bedding mortar,
product, requiring only the addition of water on-site, reducing
Pro-Prime slurry primer Flowpoint ECO flowable grout and
the potential for colour variance and workmanship issues during
Cempoint gun injected mortar. The four products are proven to
installation. Cempoint provided the perfect solution for the
be BS 7533 compliant under UKAS testing methods.
vertical joints in the station’s entrance steps.
Ultrascape’s BS 7533 materials have been used extensively
Ultrascape Cempoint is suitable for joint widths of between
throughout Liverpool city centre and therefore were preferred for
5-25mm and in joint depths of 25-100mm. The product is
Lime Street station based on their good reputation.
resistant to freeze/thaw weather conditions and is shrinkage
The project was a total of 4000m² incorporating large hard
compensated.
landscaping with improved access, steps, planters and specialist
The station is now servicing hundreds of commuters in and
paving with artists’ impressions engraved in it. Ultrascape Pro-
out of the city, who find access to the station a lot easier. The
Bed HS was supplied in bulk to Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering
longevity of the station has been secured as the British Standard,
who were contracted to complete the project. 30 tonne silos of
7533 promotes professional results that can give a minimum
material were delivered to the project’s location, an ideal supply
construction life of 40 years.
for such large developments.
For further information on the Ultrascape range of products,
Ultrascape’s renowned flowable grout, Flowpoint was chosen.
please visit www.ultrascape.co.uk or call 01827 871871.
The product is available in regular and an ECO grade, which
Ultrascape is part of the Instarmac Group plc.
contains 20% recycled material. Flowpoint ECO was ideal for Lime
Street station, allowing the large area to be grouted with ease
and then simply washed clean finishing the specialist paving.
Due to the product’s rapid setting performance, paving grouted
with Flowpoint can be opened to pedestrians in just 1 hour and
vehicular traffic after only 4 hours, minimising disruption.
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