{"id":22983,"date":"2026-04-01T11:53:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/f-ball.com\/?p=22983"},"modified":"2026-04-01T11:53:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:53:31","slug":"new-extended-use-stopgap-300","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/f-ball.com\/en\/new-extended-use-stopgap-300\/","title":{"rendered":"New Extended Use Stopgap 300"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/f-ball.com\/en\/product\/stopgap-300-heavy-duty-smoothing-compound\/\">Stopgap 300<\/a> offers a high compressive strength making it suitable for creating a perfectly smooth base when installing floorcoverings in areas that will be subject to high traffic and heavy loads. It can now also be used as a standalone wearing surface where floorcoverings are not required, making it perfect for upgrading and renovating new and existing floors in a wide range of environments including heavy-duty industrial applications, where forklift trucks are in operation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/f-ball.com\/en\/product\/stopgap-300-heavy-duty-smoothing-compound\/\">Stopgap 300<\/a> is suitable for use over a wide range of subfloor types, including sand\/cement screed, concrete, calcium sulphate (e.g. anhydrite), sound asphalt, granolithic, terrazzo, epoxy and polyurethane resins, ceramic and quarry tiles and Stopgap waterproof surface membranes.<\/p>\n<p>It has excellent self-levelling properties and can be pump-applied up to 1500m<sup>2<\/sup> per day, dependent upon manpower, thickness applied and equipment used. Its protein-free formulation allows it to be used in biologically sensitive areas such as hospitals. It is also low odour, meaning it can be used while nearby areas remain in-use and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the development, F. Ball\u2019s sales director, Karl Brannigan, said: \u201cWe\u2019re always looking to apply the latest advancements in technology to help flooring contractors to work to ever-higher standards, including enhancing existing products to make them more versatile. This is a great example of this, meaning that the same product can be used for multiple applications.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/f-ball.com\/en\/product\/stopgap-300-heavy-duty-smoothing-compound\/\">Stopgap 300<\/a> is sold in units of 25kg, which will cover approximately 5m<sup>2<\/sup> at a thickness of 3mm when mixed with water.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about Stopgap 300 <a href=\"https:\/\/f-ball.com\/en\/product\/stopgap-300-heavy-duty-smoothing-compound\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stopgap 300 offers a high compressive strength making it suitable for creating a perfectly smooth base when installing floorcoverings in areas that will be subject to high traffic and heavy loads. It can now also be used as a standalone wearing surface where floorcoverings are not required, making it perfect for upgrading and renovating new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/f-ball.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/f-ball.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/f-ball.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f-ball.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f-ball.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22983"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/f-ball.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22990,"href":"https:\/\/f-ball.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22983\/revisions\/22990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f-ball.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/f-ball.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f-ball.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f-ball.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}