How Weather Affects Your Paving Project

Well, it's often a massive thing and probably people see on either social media or the platforms that landscapers use and things is, is it ever too hot to lay? Often a question that gets asked and I think the answer is yes.

You know, there are...

Several different technical reasons why you shouldn't lay over a certain temperature.

That temperature is subjective.

I'm from a concrete background and bizarrely it can be too hot to concrete.

It can also be too cold to concrete for different reasons.

The main reason when you're using cement is cement hydrates at a certain speed and it gains most of its strength when it's mixed with the aggregates, whether it be a mortar bed or a concrete where you've got sand, stone, cement and then water.

That hydration method is a chemical reaction that happens and it's meant to do it over a set period of time.

Set.

Sorry.

You're doing a mark.

A little bit of a concrete joke there.

But yeah, it's over a period of time.

So once those temperatures are either too high or too low, that chemical reaction either happens too fast or doesn't happen quick enough.

So the actual mortar bed itself becomes affected and doesn't be as strong as it should be.

So

cement can be part of the whole process.

laying process so it obviously is for the mortar but also a lot of the jointing compounds have cementitious within it so it affects both the groundwork and also the finishing touches so really laying and jointing is a problem when it's over a certain degree.

And what I would say is that is laying paving in these conditions, I always say it, I'm glad we sell paving and don't lay it because, wow, yeah, it just...

Ultimately, yeah, you're creating... hazards for yourself and your workers and things like that over a certain period, you know,

touching them like the metal tools.

Yeah.

But yeah.

Um, so yeah, obviously the heat,

not always a problem we have to deal with in this country, but for the past two weeks, yes,