Case study · Retail fit-out · On-site batching

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.

CSC Screeding's Maverick on-site batching truck parked on the high street for the Lidl Caterham job
The Maverick, our 44-tonne urban artic on-site batching truck, on the high street.
Programme3 weeks → 5 days
Floor areaAround 2,000m²
Outside storageNone
LocationCaterham, Surrey

Client: LidlFit-out contractor: Forum ContractsDate: August 2024

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 usual setup. The original method would have meant taking bulk bags of sand into the building and mixing the screed inside in pan mixers. It's slow, labour-heavy work, and on this job it meant a 3-week screed programme.

The usual way

  • Nowhere outside to store materials
  • 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.

The result

3 weeks → 5 daysScreed programme, Lidl Caterham

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 much sooner for the next trades.

Flowing screed going down inside the Lidl Caterham store
Flowing screed going down inside the store.
Finished flowing screed floor inside the Lidl Caterham store
Finished screed inside the store.