Ultrascape’s Mortar Paving System: A magnificent performance in Covent Garden 

In the heart of London, Covent Garden is one of the city’s best known tourist attractions, drawing thousands of visitors from all over the world each year. 

Once a lively marketplace, Covent Garden has now become an essential tourist destination with a vast array of gift shops, boutiques and restaurants and housing its infamous street entertainers.

Unfortunately much of the paving around Covent Garden Square was in a state of disrepair and required urgent attention; to not only make it safe but to restore its traditional charm.  

Ultrascape’s mortar paving products were specified for the essential remedial works around Covent Garden’s paved areas. Pro-Bed HS Fine Bedding Concrete, Pro-Prime Slurry Primer and Flowpoint Rapid Setting Flowable Grout were put through a extensive trial and approval process by English Heritage and Westminster City Council to ensure they fulfilled requirements of and had full compliance to British Standard BS7533.

VGC Construction, part of the VGC Group were project’s sub-contractors, working in conjunction with Westminster TranServ, were on-board to complete remedial works to around 500m² of existing granite setts to the surrounding paved areas. Their project was two-fold; 1) Take up and re-lay the worst affected areas of paving and re-grout the areas which were badly eroded or where rain water was not draining. 2) Clean out existing grout and re-grout with Ultrascape Flowpoint.