Lidl Caterham: 3 Weeks Cut to 5 Days
Around 2,000m² of flowing screed, nowhere outside to store materials, and a busy high street. The Maverick pulled into a loading bay and pumped the screed straight in.
The challenge
This was a Lidl store on a high street, with around 2,000m² of floor to screed. There was nowhere outside to store materials.
That ruled out the specified method. We were working for Forum Contracts, the fit-out contractor, and the job was specified as Duremit 50 sand and cement screed. With no storage, that would have meant daily deliveries, bulk bags of sand taken into the building and screed mixed inside in pan mixers. It is slow, labour-heavy work, and on this job it meant a 3-week screed programme. Because of the logistics, the specification was changed to flowing screed.
The usual way
- Nowhere outside to store materials
- Specified as Duremit 50 sand and cement, with bulk bags of sand taken into the building
- Screed mixed inside in pan mixers
Programme: 3 weeks
The CSC way
- Maverick pulls into a high street loading bay
- Screed batched on the truck
- Flowing screed pumped straight into the job
Programme: 5 days
The solution
We brought the batching to the job instead.
The Maverick is our 44-tonne urban artic. It batches screed on the truck, so nothing has to be stored on site. It doesn't need a yard or a compound. It just needs a pit lane.
Here, the pit lane was a loading bay on the high street. The Maverick pulled in, batched the screed and pumped the flowing screed directly into the job. No bulk bags in the building and no pan mixers.
To keep the Maverick fed with sand all day, we hired a grab lorry to deliver straight to the truck. This job came before we bought the Viper.
The result
Around 2,000m² was screeded with no materials stored outside, no bulk bags carried in and no mixing inside the building. Forum Contracts got the floor back in 5 days instead of 3 weeks, ready for the next trades.
