WHAT'S NEW?
CDW SETS OUT A PLATFORM FOR
GROWTH FOR BJELIN Following a successful participation at Clerkenwell Design Week, Bjelin is now looking forward to capitalising on the strong commercial leads made at the show.
It was the first time the company has taken part in CDW, but it was an excellent week, according to Simon Darbyshire, managing director of Välinge Innovation UK Ltd.
Simon said: “We found the show to be excellent, with good quality visitors attending from our target market areas. We found the show to be very well organised and the unique format with its dispersed layout, lots of different showrooms and plenty of events going on gave the event as a whole a great buzz and a really positive vibe.
“It was also very gratifying that our new products – in particular the new Small, Medium and Large plank sizes were well-received. Our Hard Wax Oil products look absolutely stunning and these also generated a lot of interest, which I was pleased about.”
All the feedback which Bjelin has had from visitors and also from the Show organisers is that the stand was very well-received. The team is now working hard to convert the many leads into sales over the coming months – and Bjelin has also rebooked immediately for Clerkenwell Design Week 2024.
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F. BALL TAKES THE FLOORS UP A STEP AT
SOMERSET HOUSE F. Ball and Co. Ltd.’s rapid-setting, ultra-smooth floor finishing compound has delivered a fast-track solution for refurbishing the iconic Nelson Staircase at Somerset House, London.
As part of ongoing maintenance and improvement works at London’s Somerset House, flooring contractor Carpet Culture was commissioned to restore the steps and one of the main landings of the historic Beaux-Arts staircase, which spans six floors and dates back to the late 18th century, when the Royal Navy occupied the building.
Contractors began by removing old floorcoverings and adhesive residues from the steps and the 40m2
landing.
The landing was destroyed by a bomb in the Second World War and subsequently restored with concrete, meaning that it would require raising in order for floorcoverings to meet the level of the original stone border, but less than the minimum application thickness of a smoothing compound. Additionally, work required completing over two nights, between the hours of 6-11pm, while the building was unoccupied, meaning there was not time to mechanically prepare the concrete area.
Contractors, therefore, applied two coats of F. Ball’s Stopgap Micro Rapid floor finishing compound to create a perfectly smooth surface
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for the receipt of floorcoverings. The product can be applied to a seamless feathered edge to repair minor surface defects in a wide range of absorbent surfaces, including sand/cement and calcium sulphate screeds. It is also used to fill indentations formed by screws used to secure plywood and hardboard sheets as well as the gaps at joints between the panels. Ideal for use where a flawlessly smooth surface is required to prevent imperfections affecting the finished appearance of new floorcoverings, Stopgap Micro Rapid is walk-on hard and ready to receive new floorcoverings from just 20 minutes after application. Priming is also not required prior to use, saving further time.
Stone-effect luxury vinyl tiles were then installed on the landing and risers and treads of the stairs, and F. Ball’s Stycco Flex rapid-curing, flexible tube adhesive was used to affix Gradus stair nosings. The high strength build-up and fast curing time of the adhesive means it can secure stair nosings and trims in as little as 60 minutes, without the need for mechanical fixings.
Tom McCullagh, senior flooring manager at Carpet Culture, said: “We were grateful to our F. Ball technical representative for suggesting using Stopgap Micro Rapid as an alternative to applying a smoothing compound so that we could complete the work out of hours, on time. It worked a treat, and we received compliments for how it looked even before the floorcoverings went down.”
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