One of the best situations we find ourselves in at CDI is meeting people at a trade show and, after getting the initial “I’ve never seen this product before” comment, having the discussion about Lewis Deck that gets them over a major problem that they were having with their project.

That was the case at Ecobuild last year, when the last conversation of the whole exhibition, just as we were about to start taking the stand down, began with that phrase we get said to us so often. The gentleman in question stopped at our stand just as he was about to walk out of the exhibition when he saw our Lewis Deck model with underfloor heating pipes. The subsequent 10 minute conversation with us went through the whole system and at the end of the conversation we heard another one of the comments we get at the end of conversations, “this has just made coming here worthwhile! I’ve been looking for a way to get underfloor heating upstairs but I didn’t want to use a timber inlay system”.

Within a week we had a further conversation on the phone and had received a copy of the 1st floor layout and joist design drawing. From this we had a quotation sent out the following day along with supporting information that was requested.

Things went quiet for 6 months as the design was finalised and then in November 2017 we had received the order and the Deck and resilient strips were delivered in the last week of the month. The deck was installed without an issue and it took just over a day to lay, including some awkward cuts around a curved stairwell.

At the beginning of 2018 we decided to add a clip rail system to our range of ancillary items that we stock. Fortunately for us, and for this project, the timings were great. We arranged delivery and had them on site for the beginning of February. As this was our first project using these rails we were keen on getting comments back on their performance. These were:

“General feeling was they went down very well and although it takes a bit more time to prepare, it does lay quicker than just using p-clips. Having said this the p-clips are a must for the turn rounds and go in easily with the tech screws. The clip rail also screwed down simply and quickly using the self drill screws and, if some pre thought is applied as it goes down, some of the screws help to double up on screwing down the Lewis deck joins”.