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 | | INSTARMAC THROUGHOUT | | | Instarmac Group plc | | 27/10/2006 | | |
It is relatively common practice that once a restaurant chain hits on a winning formula for its menu, it pays to make the tantalising tastes accessible throughout the country. It is, however, quite unusual to find a restaurant chain that does not insist on a corporate identity for its interiors. Quite frequently, once you're inside it's easy to forget which City you are in!
Nando's restaurants, however, have followed the line on the first part, but have a quite separate policy on the other. Whilst its menu selection is popular throughout the country (the restaurant is rightly famous for its peri-peri chicken), it is the policy of the company to design each of its interiors to reflect the characteristics of the vicinity in which it is located.
True to its philosophy, the restaurant maintained the approach at its newly opened eatery at the Quadrangle, Chester Street, in Manchester, where the company appointed Harrison Design Co. to design the interior to reflect the local area and GF Interiors as Main Contractor. In turn, GF Interiors contacted northern based contractor, CD & Co, to carry out the flooring and wall tiling elements of the project. Instarmac materials, individually formulated for specific uses, were employed throughout.
To prepare the slightly irregular substrate prior to the application of the various floor tiles, CD & Co used both Ultra Concrete Floor Leveller and Ultra Flexible Floor Leveller. Ultra Concrete Floor Leveller has slightly different characteristics to the flexible version. It is a polymer modified 'single-part' levelling and smoothing compound, which can be laid up to depths of 50mm, whereas Ultra Flexible Floor Leveller is a polymer modified 'two-part' compound that can be laid up to depths of 12mm. Both materials have a set time of approximately 3 hours (depending upon temperature).
Once the sub-base had set, porcelain tiles were fixed to the restaurant floor and quarry tiles to the kitchen floor using UItraProRapid RS, a rapid-set, high strength adhesive. The versatile bonding agent also fixes natural stone and is ideal for most commercial flooring projects. Ceramic wall tiles, specified for the kitchen area, were fixed with UltraFloor SS, a standard-set wall and floor tile adhesive, whilst UItraProFlex SP, a flexible, rapid-set adhesive was used to fix porcelain tiles to the toilet floor, marble tiles to walls and quarry tiles to the back-of-house areas. UItraProFlex SP combines flexural capacity with excellent bond strength and is ideal for use on low porosity substrates, which was just as well since much of the flooring substrate was over-boarded timber.
The project was completed according to plan and resulted in the restaurant opening bang on time.
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