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Reprofiling Works to Grade II Listed Building
Re-profiling works carried out on the Grade II Listed Middlesbrough Town Hall using Remmers hand-placed Restoration Mortar.
Concrete Repair Project Preston
Specialist UK Restorations were appointed as Principle Contractor for a large concrete repair project at The Unicentre in Preston. This project consisted of various elements of work including Stonehealth DOFF cleaning, concrete repairs and protection using a Sika Ltd specification of Sika Monotop 610, 615, Sika Ferrogard 903, and Sikagard 552W and 550W Due to […]
Replacement of Defective Concrete Slab
Successful removal and replacement of a defective concrete floor slab at one of Kimberley-Clark’s live manufacturing/distribution facilities. The existing slab was broken up, then prepped with steel reinforcement and shuttering, before new concrete was poured to form a new slab.
Resin Injection Works Using Sikadur 52
SUKR were appointed to carry out resin injection works using Sika Ltd – Sikadur 52 Low Viscosity Crack Injection System to a concrete structure on the River Thames, London.
Case Studies
Aloft Hotel, Liverpool
Liverpool’s historic Grade II listed Royal Insurance Building has been transformed into a new Aloft Liverpool Hotel, and is the culmination of a multi-million pound investment project led by Ashall Property, Liverpool City Council and English Heritage. As part of the overall scheme the Sika 1 pre-bagged Waterproofing System had been specified by the project […]
Westborough Methodist Church, Helifix Sock Anchors
The present building of Westborough Methodist Church dates from 1862, and is a Grade II listed building in Scarborough with large ashlar front and a Tetrastyle Corinthian portico with heavy entablature and pediment.Certain stone blocks within the architrave of the entablature had shown considerable signs of movement over the years, due to differential/thermal movement and […]
Wrexham Council Concrete Repair
On behalf of Wrexham Council, Specialist UK Restorations undertook concrete condition surveys including testing for carbonation depths and chloride content as per recommendation of EN1504. A large number of social housing properties had steel reinforced concrete window cills and concrete slabs as roof canopies, and over the years the steel reinforcement had corroded subsequently pushing […]
Trial Pits for Flintshire County Council
A trial pit is an excavation of ground in order to study or sample the composition and structure of the subsurface. Trial pits are usually between 1 and 4 metres deep, and are dug either by hand or using a mechanical digger. We undertook a series of trial pits on behalf of Flintshire County Council […]
