⏱️ 6 Ways Fibo Collect Saves Time on Your Job Site

“Look, we know your time is money, especially up here with the short winter days. That’s why we were the first company in Scotland to install the Fibo Collect system. It’s not just about saving you on material—it’s about cutting down the waste of your most asset: time.

Remember the Fibo plant can produce mortar and screed as well as concrete!

Here are the six biggest ways this machine speeds things up for your team:

• Ditch the Mixer, Keep the Labour

Honestly, the biggest win is just getting rid of that manual graft. Think about how much time you spend: setting up the old mixer, tearing open bags of cement and sand, constantly checking the water, and then spending half an hour chipping out the dried mortar at the end of the day.

With Fibo, you’re not paying a skilled brickie to mix. They stay on the wall, and the job gets done quicker and you don’t have to worry about getting rid of empty bags!

• We make your life simple

Perhaps you don’t have a mixer especially if you are doing the job at home yourself- well don’t worry with Fibo you don’t need one cos we have the Fibo plant here for you- it’s easy- tell us what you want, and we will mix it for you- easy!

• No More Waiting for the Lorry

We all know the score. You book a ready-mix lorry for 9 AM, but because it’s a small quantity you get pushed to the back of the queue for a bigger customer and a lot of your day gets wasted… Fibo is different. If you need a tub of mortar right now, you can collect it here by ordering at our sales desk. We produce a bar code and scan this for you at the plant. It’s all done and dusted in under 10 minutes, and you can get on with the job. It turns material supply into a quick pit-stop. We can also deliver for you- give us a ring!

• Maximum Use of Daylight

This is crucial for our local Scottish trade, especially from October to March. When daylight is scarce, you can’t afford to lose two hours faffing about with materials. Because the Fibo system is so fast, you maximise the productive hours you have. Your crew is laying slabs or bricks while the sun is up, or at least when it’s not raining, not cleaning equipment in the dark.

• Say Goodbye to Skip-Filling Duties

When you order 1m3 of mix and only use 0.6m3, that 0.4m3 of hardened stuff still needs to go somewhere. You must pay for the waste and pay someone to shovel it into a skip.

Fibo lets you order from as little as 0.25m3. You only order what you need, so you cut out the wasted labour and time spent dealing with messy, hardened material and expensive skip hire fees.

• Perfect Quality Stops Costly Rework

Your team is good, but mixing manually on-site—especially in the cold or rain—it’s never going to be 100% consistent. If the mix is off, the finished job could fail, and then you’ve got the nightmare of chipping it all out and doing it again. Fibo is computer-controlled; the ratio is spot-on, every time. It means no time wasted correcting a faulty screed or a soft mortar joint later on.”

Who are Cartmore?

Cartmore Building Supplies, established in Lochgelly, Fife in 1986, has grown to become Fife’s largest independent builders’ merchant. With branches conveniently located in Lochgelly and Denny, we offer a top-class service complemented by quick and efficient deliveries from our own fleet.

We are unique among builders’ merchants due to our own bagging, blending, and washing facilities, which allow us to create a distinctive range of decorative aggregates and roughcasting chips. Our extensive product range includes heavy-side building materials such as landscaping materials, concrete blocks, bricks, roughcasting supplies, gravels, sand, drainage, timber, insulation, and tools. We are proud to supply a wide range of building materials to both trade and public customers, serving as a major supplier to many of the UK’s largest housebuilders and working closely with Scotland’s regional developers.

Our branches feature extensive hard landscaping displays that set a high standard in the UK sector. Cartmore is an award-winning company recognised for excellence in the UK.

We also operate Scotland’s first Fibo Collect, concrete, mortar, and screed production facility at Lochgelly. Cartmore Building Supplies isn’t just another builders’ merchant—we are your complete, independent building supply partner. Contact us for more information!