SCREEDS
SETTING STANDARDS
Palace Chemicals explains how its fibre-enhanced screed solutions are setting higher benchmarks for strength, flexibility and long-term durability in commercial flooring.
Today’s flooring industry is increasingly looking for products which combine speed, reliability and long-term performance, especially when working with challenging substrates, large- format tiles and underfloor heating systems. Palace Chemicals has responded with its advanced Reinforced Fibre Technology (RFT). This fibre-enhanced chemistry is designed to deliver improved shrinkage resistance, flexural strength, as well as impact and abrasion resistance, helping floorlayers achieve flawless results even in demanding conditions.
The Palace levelling range stretches from deep-fill performance to rapid turnaround ‘fast access’ solutions, all supported by the structural benefits of RFT. This gives the company’s levellers optimum strength and stability, as they change the mechanics by giving added reinforcement dispersed throughout the mix, helping to control how the levelling compound responds to stress from heat, load and the service environment.
Across the range, RFT brings tangible benefits. The incorporation of microfibres and performance fillers delivers increased strength, flexibility and resistance to cracking. The fibres create a stable internal matrix, distributing load and stress more evenly through the compound. This not only supports thicker applications but also helps ensure that levelling remains consistent across a variety of substrates.
This enhanced flexibility is particularly important in modern flooring environments, where surfaces are increasingly subject to movement, thermal variation and vibration. RFT products also contribute to long-term durability and provide installers with a greater margin for when site conditions are not always in their favour – essential qualities for achieving reliable, professional results.
Key products in the range include THICK BED REINFORCED FLOOR LEVELLING COMPOUND which can be used up to an 80mm
bed depth, through to solutions where a rapid early strength finish is required such as FAST-FLEX, both of which have proven performance when used with a range of underfloor heating types.
These products have the ability to level floors in a single pour and are suitable for different types of installation, conforming to all relevant standards and providing the usual Palace technical excellence and lifetime guarantee of effectiveness, where a specification has been provided by the company.
The Palace RFT technology is included in THICK BED FLOOR LEVELLING COMPOUND which is suitable for applications on a wide range of floor surfaces, such as tamped or worn concrete, sand/cement screeds, mastic asphalt, plywood and other dense, impermeable surfaces. This product is particularly suited for installation within heated subfloor specifications, where its ability to be laid to a thick-bed is usually sufficient to accommodate most types of wire or pipe-based heating systems. Its fibre-reinforced performance also gives the wet mix enhanced cohesion and reduced segregation, as fibres help keep the mix stable, reducing aggregate settlement and surface bleeding, which then prevents surface laitance on the cured floor top.
THICK BED FLOOR LEVELLING COMPOUND is fast setting and flexible, offering high early strength to take foot traffic after just three hours. It can be laid from 3mm up to 80mm bed depth, making it ideal for use with underfloor heating systems. It is suitable for either pump or trowel application and can receive tiles after just four hours or a vinyl covering after 24 hours.
Sitting alongside THICK BED is FAST-FLEX FLOOR LEVELLER. Designed for versatility and speed, FAST-FLEX delivers excellent flow, superb surface smoothness and outstanding early strength. It supports bed depths from 2mm to 50mm, making it suitable for everything from minor corrections to substantial levelling tasks.
Its high early strength characteristics mean that it can take foot traffic after just three hours. It is suitable for pump application. Tiles can be fixed after just four hours and other floorcoverings after 24 hours.
“Innovation in order to provide our customers with more technically competent products, which are also easier to use, is a key motivation at Palace Chemicals,” says Steve Ball, Commercial Director. “Our floor levelling range, which includes products containing Reinforced Fibre Technology, is a great example of this.”
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