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KERAKOLL “PERFECT” FOR
UK TILES DIRECT Kiwi Design recently appointed UK Tiles Direct to refurbish a Nissan showroom after working with them on another project the previous year.
The challenge was to do the work whilst Yeomans Nissan’s Worthing showroom was still open for business. David Burgess, Managing Director of UK Tiles Direct said that they chose Kerakoll products for the tiling as they are “all eco-friendly” and have “fewer emissions than any other alternative products on the market”.
The team split the project, which included floor preparation and tiling in the showroom, office and customer toilets into two phases of five days. They put up a partition to allow the work to be carried out on one side with business continuing on the other. The team had to carry out initial work, grinding channels for wiring and services into the concrete floor by night to avoid disturbing the customers and staff, but then tiling was done during the day.
David commented that it was very important to have the reassurance
PROJECT SUPPORT
FROM BAL BAL have a released a series of short videos about how tilers can get free on-site project support.
The new videos, available on BAL’s YouTube channel, or sent directly to YOU + BAL partners, highlight how BAL’s Product Support Technicians (PST) provide hands-on, personal support for all tiling industry professionals across the UK.
Founded more than 20 years ago, the PST concept is unique to BAL, which has placed strong emphasis on support throughout its history.
The BAL PST service is available to for free across the UK for tiling professionals and is also one of the many support services available to
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that Kerakoll products are safe, with very low VOC emissions, given the presence of staff and customers whilst work went on.
The first job was to remove the existing tiles, only to find that most of the old adhesive had stayed on the floor, making it impossible to tile. Kerakoll’s Primer A Eco had to be applied to consolidate the screed and bind any dust etc from the old adhesive before the floor was levelled to allow tiling. “We used Kerakoll Keratech R10 self-levelling compound… [It] flows fantastically, giving us a lovely flat floor after just
members of BAL’s new partnership programme – YOU+BAL. As well as access to product support, YOU+BAL offers fixers and contractors a wider range of business development tools, business support tools, training and rewards.
Gary Knowles, BAL Product Support Manager, said: “When you’re out on a job, what you want most is the reassurance that the products you’re using won’t fail. At BAL not only can you trust our products, we back this up with complete product support on the phone, online and on the road at any stage of a project to ensure success. The BAL Product Support Team is available for fixers to benefit from a wider team whenever they need us”
“If you have experienced a problem on your installation, regardless of
three-to-four hours of drying. After 12 hours of drying, we could start the porcelain tile installation.”
The tiles were then laid using H40 Eco Rapid which is a fast setting adhesive that can be grouted after three hours, allowing work to be completed within the short timescales that were required.
The project team used over 2.05 tonnes of Keratech R10 and only one 25kg bag less of the H40 Eco Rapid adhesive to complete the 330m² of wall and floor tiling.
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the product you are using, you can contact our PSTs to offer dependable advice for solutions. What’s more, being at the forefront of the industry we can also provide training – at a BAL or partner location, or even on- site - on specific new technologies and systems to save time and cost, or guide you through more complex installations you may now be working on.”
The full range of BAL support can be seen with the new YOU+BAL partner programme. YOU+BAL welcomes any professional fixer or contractor to become a BAL Partner with the opportunity to instantly benefit from the full support the company can offer, including access into BAL to develop the products and time-saving tools to help business development.
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