Catnic wins top product award for Brikmat

Catnic, has won the Professional Builder's Top Product of the Year Award (2005), this time for its innovative brick spacing system - Catnic Brikmat.

For the second year in a row, leading building materials specialist, Catnic, has won the Professional Builder's Top Product of the Year Award (2005), this time for its innovative brick spacing system - Catnic Brikmat.

Developed, tested and proven by building professionals, Catnic Brikmat is an installation aid to provide a uniform depth of horizontal mortar joints when constructing brick and blockwork.

It is a patented and BBA approved spacer system that allows brickwork to be constructed rapidly and to a consistent course height without the need to check gauge and level at every course.

During extensive trials, with both experienced and inexperienced bricklayers, Catnic Brikmat has proved to be up to 50% faster than conventional building.

Catnic Brikmat is suitable for all forms of brick and blockwork and is of considerable benefit when setting up corners and piers, constructing curved walls, utilising dense and decorative features and working at height or in confined spaces.

The award was given based on the response of readers to products featured in Professional Builder Magazine this year.

Catnic's marketing director, John Pryer, has been delighted with the reaction that the product has received: "We have worked closely with a range of customers to ensure that this product will be of real value".

"It is rare that a product improves quality and productivity without adding to the overall cost of construction - normally at least one of those variables is sacrificed for the sake of the others." Brikmat is the latest addition to Catnic's growing range of building materials, and is available to buy via builders merchants across the country, visit www.catnic.com to find your nearest stockist, or buy direct from Catnic on 029 2033 7900.

Brikmat was launched in April this year and has proved popular with housebuilders, merchants and bricklayers alike and has been extensively demonstrated at a number of exhibitions held across the UK and Ireland.

As a Catnic product, Brikmat is fully supported by the company's sales support team.

Catnic has enjoyed a reputation for superior quality products and technical expertise, backed by excellent customer service for more than 30 years.

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