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Why Use Brikmat?

Specifiers

  • Specify with confidence
  • Specify dense architectural masonry products with confidence.
  • Guarantee the aesthetic finish of your design.
  • Save time and money for your client.
  • Eliminate time spent dealing with block panel issues on site.

Main Contractor

  • Saves time & money
  • More successive courses in a single lift equates to improved productivity and less time on site.
  • Improve block laying speed up to 3 times faster.
  • Hidden savings
  • Scaffolding down sooner.
  • Bricklayers off site sooner.
  • Following trades can be on site sooner.
  • Mortar silos collected and off site sooner.
  • Wastage reduction
  • Saving of up to 60% on mortar wastage.
  • No "bulking up" of joints required.
  • Minimal bleeding of mortar onto block face.
  • Improve accuracy
  • Helps consistency when teams of bricklayers are working on projects.
  • Health & safety
  • Improved stability of block panels.
  • Less mortar on scaffolding boards.
  • Less mortar dropped below.
  • No need for chemical cleaning of stained blockwork.

Bricklayer / Builder

  • Greater speed
  • Proven to be up to 3 times faster than conventional building methods.
  • Improved productivity
  • Build up to 10 courses* of dense aggregate block work in a single lift without compression of the mortar bed-joints at lower levels.
  • Use a standard mortar mix. No waiting for mortar to harden before continuing to build.
  • Enhanced accuracy
  • A quality finish virtually guaranteed.
  • Consistent gauge height, even after 10 courses.
  • Prevents extrusion of the mortar due to pressure from successive courses = no mortar bleeding on fair-faced blockwork = no cleaning!

* Materials and site conditions allowing

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Catnic
Pontypandy Industrial Estate
Caerphilly
CF83 3GL
United Kingdom

T +44 (0) 29 2033 7900
F +44 (0) 870 024 1809


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