Plastic Surgeon Case Study:
Marshall Construction Client: Sector: Repairs:
Marshall Construction Restaurant and leisure Metal repair, metal cladding panel repair
Site:
Costa Coffee Loch Lomond, Scotland
Cosmetic repair specialist, Plastic Surgeon has been called in to rectify areas of damage caused to the canopy of Scotland’s first drive-through coffee house; managing to make good small scratches and dents in the deep red cladding panels ready for the official opening. Two of the company’s highly trained Finishers spent four days at the new Costa Coffee concept in wayside services, located by the A82 on the banks of Loch Lomond, carrying out detailed repairs and colour matching them to make the panels appear as new. Plastic Surgeon was called in by Marshall Construction, an established client for its specialist services, when accidental damage caused by other sub-contractors resulted in unsightly marks across the canopy and other areas to the cladding.
Plastic Surgeon’s Regional Manager for Scotland, Derek Whiteford recounts: “This was a new build project for Costa, near to Balloch, where tradesmen using ladders and access platforms had put minor dents or scratches in a dozen of the cladding panels around the canopy and other parts of the elevation. Unfortunately they were finished in Costa’s corporate red colour and showed up quite badly so, Marshall Construction, a contractor specialising in restaurants and other leisure projects, asked us to do the work required to put them right prior to handover. “The Finishers used two part fillers to bring the repairs back slightly proud of the surface before rubbing them back smooth. Although the individual areas of damage were no bigger than a 50 pence piece, because the canopy is so visible, it was necessary to respray the whole of each 1200 mm long panel, which we did using our HVLP (high volume-low pressure) spray guns. It was a very successful job despite being a very busy site in quite an exposed location.”
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At the same time as providing clients with a comprehensive cosmetic repair service addressing virtually every type of product and substrate, Plastic Surgeon is also addressing important aspects of the sustainability agenda. For while the company’s ethos of ‘repairing rather than replacing’ represents a saving of approximately £3 for every pound spent, this approach also significantly reduces waste going to landfill and therefore helps cut a customer’s carbon footprint. Uniquely, Plastic Surgeon has developed its VisibilITy software which translates each Finisher’s job report, sent from their hand held computer, into the equivalent weight and other statistics on a data base that participating customers can utilise for their own sustainability reporting.
Total Landfill Savings for this project:
0.21 tonnes
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