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Topbond project shortlisted for Historic Bridges Awards

One of Topbond's projects - Headstone Manor - has been shortlisted for the Historic Bridges Award.

The awards are for best practice and innovation in the repair and restoration of the nation's historic infrastructure stock.  Winning and highly commended schemes will be announced at a lunch at the ICE later in the year.

 Headstone Manor in Harrow is a Grade 1 Listed Building built around 1310.  The Moat surrounding the Manor is the only surviving filled moat in Middlesex and Topbond were involved in an extensive refurbishment project on the moat and access bridge.

 In order to undertake the refurbishment, the moat first had to be dammed, pumped out and years of accumulated debris removed.   Since this included a quantity of old bricks believed to be from an earlier structure these were removed carefully by hand and stock piled to enable them to be assessed for their architectural value. 

 Repairs involved repairs to the intrados barrel and pier foundations, the bridge spandrels and retaining walls, placing service ducts and channels, casting a new deck slab, resurfacing the bridge  and installing new timber parapets and access gates, undertaken by Topbond's in-house joinery division, Howard Joinery.

What our clients say about us

We at Topbond pride ourselves on doing a good job so we are always delighted to receive positive feedback about our work.

 Here are some comments received in the past few months:

 "May I firstly compliment the team that you sent to dig our drainage gully. Anton, Darren and Costa were very diligent and ensured that we had as little inconvenience as possible.'

 'Whilst I was there, several local residents commented on how hard your crew had worked, kept the place tidy and parked their vehicles with respect to them.  It is not often we get comments on the contractors so perhaps you will pass this on as they obviously made a good impression.'

 'These guys are in a league of their own!  You have seen the stairs here so not much more to say!  They are very good to work with!'

'I'm writing to say how pleased I am with the work carried out by Topbond plc. ... No noise at all and the area was left neat and tidy.... Topbond was certainly the right choice for the task.'