F. Ball to celebrate innovation at The Flooring Show

F. Ball will use this year’s Flooring Show to debut Stopgap 1500; the next-generation of water-mix smoothing underlayments. Visitors to the F. Ball stand will be able to watch live demonstrations featuring Stopgap 1500, alongside other fast-track floor preparation products, Stopgap Micro Rapid and Styccobond F58 PLUS. These will be delivered by F. Ball’s head of training plus experts from the company’s technical service department on the stand’s live demonstration area, which returns to Harrogate following its successful debut at last year’s show.

Stopgap 1500 uses the latest technology to provide a high-performance water-mix smoothing underlayment that can be applied over old adhesive residues, including bitumen, carpet tile tackifiers and ceramic tile adhesives, eliminating the need for mechanical preparation. In such applications, there is no need to prime beforehand, saving further time and expense. Fast-setting and fast-drying, it is walk-on hard in as little as 60 minutes after application and ready to receive floorcoverings from just four hours.

Stopgap Micro Rapid is an ultra-smooth, flexible, rapid-drying floor finishing compound for creating a flawlessly smooth subfloor finish. Styccobond F58 PLUS is a fast-drying, fibre-reinforced, pressure sensitive adhesive that is ideal for the installation of LVT floorcoverings. 

All delegates at the show are also invited to a drinks reception at the F. Ball stand on the Monday afternoon of the show from 2pm.

The F. Ball stand will be located in Hall B, Stand B1.

Representatives from the F. Ball Marketing, Sales and Liaison teams will be on hand throughout the exhibition to answer any questions that visitors may have about F. Ball’s products and technical support including free training courses delivered at F. Ball’s Centre of Excellence in Staffordshire. Flooring contractors will be able to register for the free training courses at the F. Ball stand. Contractors attending the show can also find out how to become a member of the Ball Rewards scheme, which gives contractors cashback each time they purchase F. Ball products, as well as a range of exclusive benefits including the opportunity to enter regular competitions and extra cashback on promotional products.

Darren Kenyon, F. Ball Sales Director, said: “We are really looking forward to being back at The Flooring Show and giving people the chance to see for themselves how our latest product innovations can help them work to ever higher customer expectations.”