F. Ball celebrates innovation at The Flooring Show
F. Ball used this year’s Flooring Show to debut Stopgap 1500, the latest addition to its next-generation water-mix smoothing compounds.
Visitors to the F. Ball stand were able to watch live demonstrations featuring Stopgap 1500, alongside other fast-track flooring installation products developed to help flooring contractors to meet ever more exacting time constraints, including Stopgap Micro Rapid floor finishing compound and Styccobond F58 adhesive. These were 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 returned to Harrogate following a positive reception from flooring professionals at last year’s show.
Stopgap 1500 uses the latest technology to provide a high-performance water-mix smoothing compound 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. The fast-drying formulation of Styccobond F58 enables LVT tiles and planks to be secured from just five minutes. The product transitions from a wet-lay adhesive when initially applied to a subfloor to become fully pressure sensitive, while fibres in the formulation provide resistance to lateral movement, an advantage when creating complex designs and patterns.
Darren Kenyon, F. Ball Sales Director, said: “It was great to be 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, including when working to tight deadlines. This was the reason behind the development of Stopgap 1500, which has been well received by flooring contractors and provides another fast-track solution for when undertaking refurbishments and old adhesive residues are present.
