THE UK manufacturer of subfloor preparation products and adhesives for floorcoverings, F Ball and Co used this year’s Flooring Show to debut Stopgap 1500 AquaPro, the latest addition to its next-generation water-mix smoothing underlayments.

Visitors to the F Ball stand were able to watch live demonstrations featuring Stopgap 1500 AquaPro, alongside other fast-track flooring installation products developed to help flooring contractors to ever more exacting time constraints, including Stopgap Micro Rapid floor finishing compound and Styccobond F58 PLUS 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.

Says the company: ‘Stopgap 1500 AquaPro 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’s no need to prime beforehand, saving further time and expense. Fast-setting and fast-drying, it’s walk-on hard in as little as 60 minutes after application and ready to receive floorcoverings from just four hours.’

The company continues: ‘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 PLUS 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 AquaPro, which has been well received by flooring contractors and provides another fast-track solution for when undertaking refurbishments and old adhesive residues are present.’
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