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Mapei are delighted to announce the winner of their Ghoulish Grout Competition, which offered tiling contractors the chance to compete for an iPhone 5 by producing a ‘spooky’ mosaic. Mapei can now reveal the winning Halloween themed entry was produced by Joe Loughran.
Joe is a professional tiler who runs Hillhead Tiling Services based in Armagh, Ireland. The family run business specialise in the preparation and fitting of ceramic, porcelain and all natural stone tiles. His winning pumpkin and bat scene mosaic was a creative and highly detailed entry, made using Mapei’s mould resistant silicone sealant, Mapesil AC and flexible grout, Ultracolor Plus. Mapei’s Ultracolor Plus is a versatile, multi purpose grout available in 27 shades and is suitable for use with all types of ceramic and stone tiles internally or externally on floors or walls.
Joe, an active contributor on Dave Carrs Tiling Forum, commented, “I am absolutely delighted to have won! I worked on this mosaic for four nights after work and
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Reflex sets the scene at Sylvia Young Theatre School with Kahrs-designed floor
Established in 1981 in London’s Drury Lane, The Sylvia Young Theatre School is a specialist performing arts school offering vocational and academic education. It recently relocated to a converted church in Nutford Place, in the London Borough of Westminster.
didn’t realise mosaic work was so pleasurable. Thank you Mapei for giving us the opportunity to participate in this competition.”
Mark Louch, Managing Director at Mapei UK, said, “Congratulations to Joe. The competition has been a fantastic opportunity to get tilers using Mapei products in a fun way. We look forward to housing the winning mosaic in our UK head office showroom.”
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Mapei will be exhibiting and presenting at the DCE CPD Networking events in 2013
TOP TO TOE BUILDING REFURBISHMENT
This seminar will include solutions to protect the fabric of the structure. Mapei’s solutions include tested methods of waterproofing basements up to roofs. Encapsulation of asbestos will also be covered.
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Reflex Sports’ maple strip sports floor, designed by Kahrs, has been installed at the Sylvia Young Theatre School in London. Specified throughout all ten studios, the prestigious installation spanned over 1,000m2. All flooring was installed by Reflex for main contractor, Coniston Ltd. It was laid over a resilient understructure system and a durable sports finish satin lacquer was applied after installation.
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As part of the extensive refurbishment, the Kahrs-designed sports floor was specified to provide both performance benefits whilst complementing the ecclesiastic architecture. The EN Standard compliant system provides superior shock absorption, giving protection against injury and improved energy return, so that performers tire less quickly. The sports and performance prefinish also provided the correct traction, whilst promoting easy maintenance and providing durability.
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Mapei bring Cutty Sark back to life
Mapei has assisted to bring London landmark and national icon of British Maritime History, Cutty Sark, back to her prime after being badly damaged by fire in May 2007. Cutty Sark, which is preserved in Greenwich, London, has since undergone major refurbishment.
Mapei’s high performance, flexible cementitious adhesive; Keraflex and Mapei’s flexible, versatile, multi-purpose grout; Ultracolor Plus in new Limestone colour were utilised in the project to complement Domus’ 1200 x 600, 600 x 600 and 600 x 300mm modular format Porcelain Creta Beige tiles. The installation involved cutting the Domus Porcelain Creta Beige tiles to form a tiled floor to the entire dry berth beneath the famous ship extending over some 1,000m2 plus viewing area and reception at the bow and stern of the ship.
The floor installation was expertly completed by stone, marble and ceramics contractors - Stone Concepts. Lynn Sherriff, Managing Director at Stone Concepts, commented, “A big thanks to Mapei for the launch of colour 299 Limestone Ultracolor Plus Grout. We had been waiting for this colour for a long time and it’s top of our list now for all our limestone works.”
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Keraflex and Ultracolor Plus were ideal for the heavy amount of foot traffic anticipated at the tourist attraction. They were also ideal to fit with the strict timescales Stone Concepts were faced with which saw three shifts of fixers work around the clock to ensure the floors were completed on schedule. Ultracolor Plus is also mould resistant and water- repellent with BioBlock®
and DropEffect®
technologies respectively, which assist in the prevention of mould and the reduction of surface water absorption, thus providing a long lasting aesthetic finish.
Mapei’s Keraflex and Ultracolor Plus were also used to fix tiles in the reception area and new cafe. Alongside these areas Stone Concepts were responsible for restoring the floors within the historic tea clipper’s gallery within one of her deck houses. After three months of searching, tiles were finally sourced to match the original tiles used on the ship. Again a combination of Mapei’s Keraquick adhesive and Ultracolor Plus grout (this time using Jasmine shade) were utilised to install the tiles.
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