Surrey Police contacted us with a job that was all about timing. They asked us if we could coat the floor of the hanger that housed the helicopter of their Air Operations Unit.

Our original brief was that the £3 million aircraft had to be returned to the hanger each night after we finished our days work. The area to be treated was approximately 220m2.

Because of the extremely limited time frame to complete the work we specified the use of an MMA (Methyl-Methacrylate) floor coating system. This ultra-fast curing material would allow us to coat the area within the time available and would even allow the Helicopter to be parked on the new surface use the surface within two hours of the days coating work being completed.

We used industrial diamond grinders to completely remove the old floor coating and to abrade the concrete underneath. On the second day, after a thorough clean with an industrial vacuum, we applied a MMA primer. Within an hour of finishing the primer coat we were able to walk on the surface and apply the 2-3mm thick self-smoothing screed coat.