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Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 01 August 2006
Birmingham Tile and Mosaic use Mapei
products
Mapei products were used throughout many wall and floor tiling installations in the Altolusso Apartment Building.
Mapei products were used throughout many wall and floor tiling installations in the Altolusso Apartment Building Apartments throughout the £650,000 project were tiled by Birmingham Tile and Mosaic using a variety of Mapei products
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 24 Jul 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Each standard bathroom was fitted with Architectural Ceramics' 330x330mm Aruba tiles.
The grey tiles were fixed to walls using MapeGrip D1, and MapeGrip D2 in areas around the bath and shower.
Both MapeGrip D1 and MapeGrip D2 are part of Mapei UK's paste adhesive range; D1 is a high grab, high performance adhesive with no vertical slip and extended open time suitable for the installation of all ceramic tiles.
MapeGrip D2 is also a high grab ready-to-use adhesive that is fully water resistant.
Both adhesives are available in 2.5kg, 7.5kg and 15kg buckets.
A total of approximately 4000m2 of MapeGrip D1 was used, alongside approximately 2600m2 of MapeGrip D2.
The 330x330mm tiles in white were fixed to floor areas using Keraquick fast setting polymer modified flexible adhesive for fixing all types of ceramic, porcelain and glass tiles, mosaics and non moisture-sensitive natural stone.
Approximately1400m2 of bathroom floors were fixed using Keraquick.
Penthouse Apartment bathrooms were fixed with vitreous glass mosaic in pearl silver and Vidom glass tiles in various colours.
Floor surfaces were levelled and smoothed with Ultraplan ultra-fast hardening, water-mixed, truly self-levelling compound, and also fixed with the Mapefonic System - an acoustic noise reduction system.
Finishing was completed using Mapei's Ultracolor.
A fast setting polymer modified grout in white and cement grey.
Ultracolor has now been replaced by Ultracolor Plus - the same high quality fast setting grout, with added BioBlock anti-mould, and DropEffect water-repellent technologies.
Ultracolor Plus is available in 26 colours in 2kg and 5kg Alu-Paks. Request a free brochure from Mapei UK ...
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