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750m² laydown area. Ready for the winter build.

A contractor building a house in Staffordshire needed a laydown area for vehicles and materials through the winter. TrackMatz delivered and installed 100 TM120 heavy-duty mats across the grass paddock beside the site.

100 TM120 composite mats forming a laydown area on a grass paddock beside a house build, with a TrackMatz vehicle parked on the matting
TM120 laydown area beside the house build, Staffordshire.
Matting
100 TM120 panels
Coverage
About 750m²
Enquiry to install
7 days
Location
Staffordshire
The requirement

Vehicles and materials. Through a UK winter.

The contractor is building a house and needed a laydown area for vehicles and materials over the winter. The space available was the grass paddock beside the site. Left unprotected, grass turns to mud quickly under wet-weather traffic.

Brick packs and timber are stored at the front of the area, with contractor vehicles using the middle.

The first enquiry was for 1,500m². Once the site had been talked through, the matted area was set at 25m by 30m, about 750m². The caravans at the rear of the paddock were left off the matting.

A site visit before delivery found that an articulated lorry could not get into the site. The delivery was planned around a rigid lorry and a van with a trailer running shuttle loads instead.

On site

Joined panels. One working surface.

Photographs from the installation. Select a photograph to see the full view.

Installation photographs from site. Third-party vehicles have been digitally removed or cropped out for privacy.

TM120

Heavy-duty composite matting

Machine-placed panels for temporary access routes and working areas, selected around the requirements of each site.

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Planning a similar laydown area?

Measure the area. Then plan the delivery.

A useful brief includes the site address, the area you need covered, what will be stored or parked on it, the vehicles delivering to site and how long the works will run.

Site access matters as much as the mats. On this job a site visit showed an articulated lorry could not get in, so the delivery was planned around smaller vehicles before anything was booked.

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Need a laydown area for your next build?

Send the site address, the area to cover, photographs, vehicle details and dates. We will check the access and come back with a proposal.