Caplock Copings locked down in Cardiff

Cast Stone News

29 November 2007

Cardiff City Council specifies Caplock

Cardiff City Council is the latest customer to use Forticrete's innovative Caplock extra secure copings, in the latest phase of repairs to council-owned residential areas in Pentwyn.

The works, carried out by social housing services provider Connaught, are part of the Council's Group Repair Scheme, and Caplock was specified to give a secure, weather and vandal-proof finishing touch to parapet and boundary walls. The project has currently repaired 25 council homes and is going into its second phase since the start of the project just over a year ago.

The Caplock system locks together the coping and the top course of brickwork forming a virtually immovable mass. This prevents destruction by vandals and combats the effects of freeze-thaw on mortar.

Laurie Morris, project manager of Connaught ,said: "We intend to use Caplock again in future phases of this contract and also in other contracts, as it will ultimately give our customers a reduction in lifetime maintenance costs. Here in Cardiff, the client has already been both impressed by the look of the new walls, and also reassured by their solidity."

Caplock copings are available in wet cast or semi-dry Cast Stone formats and in twice weathered or double cant designs, with returns, stop ends and tee pieces, making building a simple, trouble-free operation. For the Cardiff scheme, the double cant design was chosen, together with matching pier caps, in Bath colour.

The Cardiff project is ongoing, and is set to be running for the next few years to renovate the council housing of the residential areas in Pentwyn.

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