Use H+H’s recommended Thin Joint bonding for high-insulating aircrete construction to reduce the risks of winter weather slowing down your housing sites, as well as speeding up work to cope with the shorter hours of daylight.

Being able to eliminate the wet trade work for traditional mortar with Thin Joint bonding prevents the ongoing threat of rain slowing down a site. The bigger the aircrete units used, the quicker the construction.

In fact, by using large-format lightweight aircrete Multi Plates and the quick-setting Thin Joint mortar enables full storey heights to be built in only a day.

Unlike most frame systems, the Thin Joint bonding does not require any waiting time for settlement before applying a render or other finishes. The first-fix trades can start working inside while the external skin is still going up – therefore saving valuable time and money.

In fact, the time savings from Thin Joint bonding used for H+H’s Rå Build modern method of construction are enough to make it cost nearly 9% less than SIPS and timber-frame in housing according to research by Calfordseaden. This is enough to offset much of the extra costs of building to meet the Code for Sustainable Homes.

Of course, the advantages are not limited to housebuilding. The site manager for a college’s £2.6m extension in Cambridgeshire reports that by drying within only 10 minutes, the Thin Joint system’s 6m-high walls were built up much quicker than he’d ever known for traditionally mortared concrete:

“Thin Joint is good for temperatures below that of traditional mortar, which was important when the college’s construction programme ran through last winter’s especially cold weeks,” said Stuart Lovesey of Morgan Ashurst, who’s been in the trade since 1973.