LEVELLING COMPOUNDS THE NEED FOR SPEED
When a refurbishment project in a car showroom required a speedy, safe and sturdy solution, contractors turned to levelling and fixing products from Kerakoll.
After working with tiling contractor UK Tiles Direct previously, designer Kiwi Design turned to the trusted company once again for a project at a Nissan showroom that presented a particularly tough challenge - to carry out the refurbishment work whilst Yeomans Nissan’s Worthing showroom was still open for business.
When specifying a speedy preparation and tiling solution to meet the needs of the project, UK Tiles Direct turned to products from Kerakoll for the job. David Burgess, Managing Director of UK Tiles Direct, explained that they chose Kerakoll products for the tiling due to their eco-friendly properties and the fact that they 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. Given the presence of staff and customers whilst work went on, David stressed the importance of having the reassurance that Kerakoll products are safe to health with very low VOC emissions.
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. To rectify this problem, Kerakoll’s Primer A Eco had to be applied to consolidate the screed and bind any dust from the old adhesive before the floor was levelled with Keratech R10 to allow tiling.
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The self-levelling compound can be used to correct differences in thickness of up to 10mm. It has a long self-levelling time and flows very well, as noted by the UK Tiles Direct team, but dries extra quickly, making it safe to walk on after approximately two hours, and to tile on after around 12 hours. It is formulated with 77% locally-sourced mineral content to keep its carbon footprint low at 146g per kg across its lifecycle, and contains hypoallergenic cements and very low levels of volatile organic compounds to make it safer to use for the installer.
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 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 team from UK Tiles Direct said: “We used Kerakoll Keratech R10 self-levelling compound.
“It flows fantastically, giving us a lovely flat floor after just three to four hours of drying. After 12 hours of drying, we could start the porcelain tile installation.”
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