The Bog Mats Blog
The Bog Mats blog by GJ Mats contains all our latest news and case studies from our work across the UK. It is a showcase of the versatility of our bog and crane mats. If you would like to see what we can do for you then please just contact the expert team who will be more than happy to help you. You can also follow us on our social channels.
Bog Mats Protecting the Railways
A Foundation for Progress: GJ Mats' Critical Role in the Northumberland Line Improvement This past Sunday, a significant milestone was achieved in the Northumberland Line improvement scheme with the demolition of the North Seaton signal box. As the project...
Expanding the GJ Mats Fleet
Expanding GJ Mats' Horizons: The New Blue Fleet In an exciting development for both our operations and our valued clients, GJ Mats proudly unveils a significant enhancement to our service delivery capabilities: a brand new, custom-painted truck, resplendent in our...
Bog Mats and Historic M25 Closure
GJ Mats: Pioneering Protection on the M25 During Its Historic Closure This past weekend, the M25 witnessed an unprecedented event in its history – a complete closure to facilitate essential maintenance and upgrade works. At the forefront of this monumental task was GJ...
Demolition Heroes: GJ Mats’ Role in the M25 Jct 10 Scheme
Unsung Heroes of Infrastructure .. Protecting the M25 GJ Mats' Bogmats Role in the M25 Jct 10 Scheme Bogmats were crucial for the M25 Bridge Demolition. This past weekend marked a significant milestone in the M25 Jct 10 improvement scheme, but it wasn't just about...
What is the right Bogmat for my Construction Site?
Why Bog Mats Matter Bog mats play a crucial role in ensuring that your construction site remains accessible and undamaged, especially in adverse weather conditions. These durable timber mats provide temporary access and roadways,...
Why Choose our Bogmats?
Why Bog Mats Matter Bog mats play a crucial role in ensuring that your construction site remains accessible and undamaged, especially in adverse weather conditions. These durable timber mats provide temporary access and roadways, facilitating the movement of heavy...
Bogmats for Coastal Defences
Protecting Coastal Assets: GJ Mats' Role in Effective Defence Solutions Coastal erosion occurs in various devastating forms, necessitating effective defence strategies to mitigate its impact.. including the use of our bogmats from GJ Mats. Understanding Coastal...
Emtek Mats
Emtek Mats There are some construction projects that require something more than a timber mat to create the necessary support for the equipment that’s being used. You might need to make specific load bearing calculations, or simply need to transport heavier loads than...
What Size and Bog Mats Specification Do I Need?
Which size timber bog mats do I need? As the UK's leading supplier of industrial-grade bog mats and crane mats, GJ Mats is trusted by construction and infrastructure professionals as the go-to source for ground protection needs. This guide from our UK ground...
How to use Bog Mats on Construction Sites
Do you work on a construction site? Well, construction sites can be messy and full of debris. If you're working on one and need to protect your vehicles from mud, rain, dirt, salt, oil or anything else that might be on the ground, then you want to use bog mats. At GJ...
Quality Crane Mats – the key to safe high-rise construction
Quality Crane Mats, What is Required? Any building site brings health and safety hazards but working with taller constructions has its own unique challenges. Large-scale lifting without effective load bearing crane mat support is a disaster waiting to happen. Crane...
Protect your pipeline with quality cover slabs
Protect your pipeline with quality cover slabs Using the right pipeline protection is crucial for safeguarding underground services. The pipelines under our feet keep the country going. Water, electricity and gas supplies rely on this network – any damage from rogue...
Avoid that sinking feeling with quality bog mats
Bog mats are a valuable piece of equipment in many environments but are nothing less than essential when operating in boggy moorland terrain. Although many marshy, bog areas are protected sites, they still need to be worked and accessed. But water-logged peat bogs and...
European Hardwood Bog Mats
GJ Bog Mats use high quality, hard wearing, durable Oak and Beech for their European hardwood bog mats. They can tolerate repeated use and provide the ideal protective material for temporary roadways causing minimal disturbance to the ground.
Grass Protection Mats
Use G J Grass Protection Mats and you can stay on the grass. That's right - with our grass protection mats, you can keep ON the grass! No need to worry about soft, vulnerable or uneven ground. Whether you are in a meadow, a field, park land or environmentally...
Bond? No Bog Mats
You might not associate the glamorous and exciting world of 007 with the provision of top quality timber mats, crane mats, tropical hardwood mats and oak mats to the construction and civil engineering industries, but think again. With Spectre, the long awaited new...
Supplying Bog Mats to Oman – Understanding Sand.
Bogmats are not just for mud Based here in South Wales, you’d be forgiven for thinking that all our work is UK based. In fact, GJ Bogmats has a thriving export section. We are able to provide our bog mats and crane mats internationally, and have been involved in a...
Pipelines & Penguins – GJ Mats in the Falkland Islands
Last month we were talking about the challenges of working in the heat of the desert. By way of contrast, this month, we’re quite literally at the other end of the earth, in the Falkland Islands. The British military maintain a presence on the Falkland Islands and GJ...
Crane mats keep your lifting operations safe!
Using crane mats or crane pads will help ensure a safe system of work on your construction project where lifting equipment is involved. A construction site can be a dangerous place – vehicles, equipment, unstable ground, uneven surfaces all conspire to make accidents...
Should I Buy or Hire Bog Mats for my next project?
Should I Buy or Hire Bog Mats for my next project? New to bogmats and wondering whether to invest? Been using timber mats for some time, hiring every time you need them? In this blog we look at the pros and cons of buying vs. hiring timber mats, to help you make the...
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