{"id":3861,"date":"2023-10-24T07:45:20","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T07:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/f-ball.com\/product\/styccobond-f1\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T11:10:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T10:10:45","slug":"styccobond-f1-rubber-latex-adhesive","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/f-ball.com\/en\/product\/styccobond-f1-rubber-latex-adhesive\/","title":{"rendered":"Styccobond F1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STYCCOBOND F1 is a high-quality, natural rubber latex flooring adhesive, designed for use as a seaming and sealing adhesive for carpets. Its smooth, creamy consistency makes it suitable for easy application with a brush or applicator, ensuring precise coverage and strong bonding.<\/p>\n<p>Floor fitters can use STYCCOBOND F1 adhesive with a suitable jointing tape for seaming traditional and hessian-backed carpets effectively. Users can also apply this latex flooring adhesive to carpet edges to seal them, helping to prevent fibre loss and maintaining a clean, durable finish.<\/p>\n<p>It has an open time of approximately 20 minutes, giving installers ample time to install carpets accurately. STYCCOBOND F1 maintains its effectiveness with a shelf life of 12 months in unopened containers stored in good conditions. This makes it a reliable choice of adhesive for both immediate and future flooring projects.<\/p>\n<p>Proper subfloor preparation is essential to the correct installation of any floorcoverings. Subfloors must be sound, smooth, dry and free from any contaminants which will affect adhesion. To ensure a level subfloor on which to adhere to, uneven and irregular surfaces should be suitably prepared using the appropriate <a href=\"https:\/\/f-ball.com\/en\/smoothing-compounds\/\">STOPGAP smoothing compounds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For detailed information and guidance on subfloor preparation, take a read of our F. Ball Subfloor Preparation Guide <a href=\"https:\/\/f-ball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/F_BALL_SUBFLOOR_PREP_BROCHURE.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rubber latex flooring adhesive for carpet seaming<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4530,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[69,70,155],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3861","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-flooring-adhesives","7":"product_cat-carpet-textile-flooring-adhesives","8":"product_cat-tools-and-accessories","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/f-ball.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/3861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/f-ball.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/f-ball.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f-ball.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f-ball.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/f-ball.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f-ball.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=3861"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f-ball.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=3861"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f-ball.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=3861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}