Products from F. Ball and Co. have been used to prepare subfloors and install vinyl floorcoverings as part of the refurbishment of an exhibition space at the National Motor Museum in Beaulieu, Hampshire.
Appointed to upgrade the area, specialist flooring contractor Infinite Tiling Ltd required a fast-track solution capable of bonding to existing ceramic tiles covering the majority of the area to avoid the need for their removal.
The surrounding areas required building up by 35mm to meet the level of the quarry tiles. This was achieved by priming with F. Ball’s Stopgap P131 general-purpose primer before applying the company’s Stopgap 600 deep section base compound.
Ceramic tiles were primed with F. Ball’s Stopgap P141, which is designed especially to promote the adhesion of smoothing compounds to non-absorbent surfaces, such as ceramic tiles, and coloured yellow to help gauge coverage.
Stopgap 1200 smoothing compound was then applied throughout the entire 900sq m area. It is low-odour, self-smoothing and fast-drying. Applied at a thickness of 2-5mm, it is walk-on hard from 60 minutes and dry enough to receive floorcoverings in as little as four hours.
Finally, contractors used F. Ball’s Styccobond F44 vinyl adhesive to install Altro vinyl safety flooring throughout the exhibition space. Styccobond F44 is a solvent-free, acrylic emulsion adhesive, which provides high bond strength, strong initial tack and a long open time.
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