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Lancaster Landmark Preserved Intact with the Help of a Special Urethane Foam

The Ashton Memorial, Lancaster, described as "The Grandest Monument in England" by the celebrated architectural historian, Sir Nikolaus Pevsner and newly restored by Shepherd Construction Ltd. for Lancaster City Council.

The distinctive Lancaster landmark, the Ashton Memorial has been restored to its former splendour, thanks, in part to the injection of a urethane foam by Modern Plan Insulation Ltd.

The Grade 1 listed building needed fully restoring but a problem in the Domed Copper clad roof was that the wooden trusses supporting the internal ornate plasterwork, were in imminent danger of collapse.

The solution was to fill the void with Cavity Stabilisation Foam, a structural bonding foam which glued everything back together again. The system using Isofoam CRF is normally used to rectify wall tie failure.