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JULY SPOTLIGHT: ROOFTOP MINI-GOLF?
Now and again, we get some pretty unusual jobs in. In the past, those have included everything from train carriage roofs to a castle walkway, landmark spires and the green roof for the Sri Lankan embassy in London. This month, we had a mini-golf course.
On a roof.
This was a special house with bags of character, in need of a fair amount of refurbishment. The roof itself was basically sound, though absolutely not fit for purpose. Huge puddles of water were sitting, there were cracks, wear, moss and more, all spread over a very large flat area containing several mini-roofs.
But the owners had a vision... and that's where we came in.
At the time of writing this, the job isn't quite finished - we still need to install the Forest Green quartz anti-skid surface - but already this old, concrete Art Deco building is springing to life. The new roof has transformed it, making it easy to see how fantastic the whole refurbishment is going to be. Pure white parapets and walls, all interlinking and blended, anthracite black detailing and forest green topcoat already show the building's immense charm and character.
This is one of those jobs that, for us, really shows the versatility and brilliance of the polymer system - not just in terms of what it can achieve, but also the fact it can be achieved on one of the wettest, windiest coasts on the British mainland (Ynyslas, about 8 miles north of Aberystwyth in West Wales).