Landscape N Urban Design – Issue 78 MarchApril 2026 – Landscape N Urban Design

Unfortunately, this soon cracked and needed more repairs and repointing almost every year. The extent of this cracking and breaking up by mid-summer 2025, was such that the owners felt it was not only becoming unsightly, but also unsafe and a trip hazard for their guests. They asked Gorah Stone, the stone restoration specialist, to try and find a more durable and permanent solution. Additionally, the now urgent repointing works had to be completed with a high risk of wet weather in this exposed coastal location.

All these criteria and requirements combined to present critical issues for selecting the repointing material: • Firstly, the joints were extremely varied in both width and depth, plus for most of the joint lengths, the joint arrises (edges / sides) were also very varied, and not parallel. Joint dimensions of this nature have a very high risk of failure, especially for cement-based mortars, which is due to the high levels of differential shrinkage stresses created during the cement hydration and hardening process.

These lead to shrinkage cracking, as well as stress cracking from thermal movement in service. • Secondly, the repointing had to be completed quickly for new guests arriving and wet weather conditions were almost inevitable at some point. However, all traditional and modern cement- based jointing materials must be applied in dry conditions with no residual water in the joints, and then then allowed time to cure and harden before exposure to rainfall, or water run-off, otherwise, shrinkage cracking and premature failure is inevitable.

Gorah Stone contacted NCC Streetscape, leading UK paving jointing specialists, for their expert advice and fortunately, they had an answer. This was to use GftK vdw 850 plus, a unique, 2nd- generation, epoxy jointing mortar, which is reaction hardening, with no physical shrinkage, meaning no shrinkage cracking and variable joint dimensions are no problem.

There are no worries about residual www.landud.co.uk 47 Follow us @ludmagazine Visit our website for more information on GftK vdw 850 plus paving jointing: https://www.nccstreetscape.co.uk/paving-jointing/vdw-850plus.html And for more information on Paving Repointing: https://www.nccstreetscape.co.uk/type-of-area/paving-repointing.html NCC Streetscape Limited: Website: www.NCCStreetscape.co.uk Email: [email protected] Tel: 01257 266696 Contact: David Mackay, Director water in the joints, and no delays due to wet weather, even in the rain, and is the only truly wet-weather paving jointing – effectively the ‘State-of-the-Art’ in paving jointing & repointing technology.

GftK vdw 850 plus is very easy to apply using modern wet-slurry techniques, as it has very high flow properties and self-compacts into the joints, so there is also no additional tooling or finishing required.

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Concrete & Stonework 43 – Treating slippery surfaces. 46 – Repointing random-sized natural stone paving joints. 48 – Nature-based urban regeneration. Green & Blue Infrastructure 50 – Tree relocation with Civic Trees 54 – A wildflower transformation that continues to thrive. 56 – Supporting urban resilience through living roofs. 58 – Little Green Rooms takes garden rooms to the next level. 60 – Supporting Green & Blue Infrastructure from the ground up.

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