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Customer service letter to Trades-Direct.co.uk

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I discovered Trades-Direct on the internet for tiling products and found them to be associated with PITT the tile training company. They were just down the road from me so I popped down to get a quote for all the adhesive, grout, sealers etc that I would need. I have done a bit of tiling before, but this was a big leap to natural stone and large format. The chaps down at PITT are exceptional when it comes to customer service. I am a DIYer, who has just popped in, I am not paying for a tiling course from them and I know little about the products that I require. They made me a cuppa, took me through to the tiling school and then onto the storeroom from where they supply their trade customers. I was armed with a stone tile and asked ‘how do I put that up?’ It ended up with 3 or 4 of their trainers all debating the best/ most suitable products for me and grout colours etc. They even demonstrated the various sealers to show me the available finishes. I left with my quote to supply all the required items and needless to say went back a day or two later to purchase having realised that their price was some £200 cheaper than a certain large chain tiling supplier. A few days later when I was struggling to get clean cuts they even lent me their radial arm tile-cutting machine for nothing (some £800 worth)! I cannot praise them enough for their exceptional service.

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Two component, high flexibility cementitious mortar, for waterproofing concrete surfaces, balconies, terraces, basins and swimming pools. Can be applied by brush or with a roller.
Applications:
Mapelastic Smart is used to form highly flexible, waterproof and protective dressings on concrete structures, even those subject to cracking.
It may be applied on cementitious screeds, existing floors (clean and well bonded to the substrate) and renders to waterproof bathrooms, showers, balconies, terraces and swimming pools before laying ceramic and natural stone.
The mortar is applied by brush or with a roller on surfaces that must be perfectly clean and sound.
Apply thickness of at least 2 mm and embed the Fibreglass Mesh or Mapetex Sel.
Avoid the Mapelastic Smart membrane come into contact with water for 24 hours after laying.
Wait at least 5 days before laying ceramic tiles.
Technical data:
Pot life: 60 minutes.
Waiting time: 4-5 hours between each coat; 5 days before laying ceramic.
Colour: grey.
Application: by brush, roller or
spray-rendering machine.
Storage: part A: 12 months; part B: 24 months. Protect from frost.
Consumption
approx. 1.6 kg/m2 per mm of thickness when roller or brush applied;
approx. 2.2 kg/m2 per mm of thickness when spray applied.
Packaging
30 kg kits (part A 20 kg + part B 10 kg).

 Mapelastic Smart

Ready to use, pre-blended, normal-setting mortar with controlled shrinkage for fast-drying screeds (4 days).
Applications:
For forming bonded, unbonded and floating screeds on new or old slabs prior to installing moisture-sensitive flooring (wood, pvc, linoleum, carpet, rubber, etc.) or any other type of flooring in areas where fast-drying screeds are required to shorten completion times. Topcem Pronto is ready to use. Just mix with water. Topcem Pronto is the ideal solution where good quality graded aggregate is hard to find or for job sites such as those in city centres where the logistics involved in mixing conventional binders can be difficult. Topcem Pronto can be used in interiors and exteriors for screeds up to 60 mm thick. Bonded screeds (less than 40 mm thick) require the application beforehand of a bonding slurry of Topcem Pronto and Planicrete. Unbonded screeds (more than
40 mm thick) must be poured over polyethylene sheeting. Coverage
18-20 kg/m2 per cm of thickness, depending on tamping. Packaging

Mapei Topcem Pronto

Synthetic-rubber latex additive for interior and exterior cement mixes, to improve mechanical and adhesive characteristics.
Applications:
Admixture to improve mechanical and adhesive characteristics of cement screeds, renders, thin levelling mortars, etc.
Additive for cement slurries for anchoring bonded screeds, filling holes or repairing damaged sections of screeds, concrete floors etc.
Additive for spatterdash to provide anchoring for renders.
Do not use pure Planicrete as a primer or slurry, always mix it with Portland cement, or, when required, with Mapecem or Topcem. Coverage
depending on mortar mix and thickness

Minimal thickness sound control system designed to isolate impact noise when installed under ceramic tiles and stone materials.
Applications:
Acoustic insulation over:
• Concrete block and wood floors.
• Existing floors of ceramic tile, natural stone, parquet, etc. The Mapefonic System is a kit containing five products for the installation of 24 m2 of flooring
and acoustic insulation (divided into 4 units of 6 m2).
• Mapefonic Strip - Self-adhesive tape to be placed around the perimeter of the floor and around columns to prevent sound transmission. 1 box containing
4 rolls of tape, each 11 m long.
• Mapefonic Pad - Bitumen filled acoustic tiles (500 x 500 x 9.5 mm) with fibreglass reinforcing and a backing consisting of a composite cushion. When installed over the substrate the Mapefonic Pads form a sound deadening underlayment. 12 boxes containing 2 m2 each.
• Mapefonic Glue - Acrylic adhesive in water dispersion for installing Mapefonic Pad.
4 buckets of 5 kg.
N.B. Protect from frost.
• Mapefonic Mortar - Grey coloured fast setting cement based adhesive for installing ceramic tiles and moisture stable stone products: 4×25 kg bags.
• Mapefonic Grout - Grey coloured special fast setting grout based on hydraulic binders

Ultra colour plus is a fsat setting and drying, high performance, anti-efforescence gourt, polymer modified, for joints from 2 - 20mm. Water-repellent with DropletEffect and antimold with BioBlock technology.

 Applications:

Interior and exterior floor and wall grouting of all types of ceramic tiles (double fired, single-fired, Klinker, porcelain tiles etc), terracotta, stone material (natural stone, marble granite, agglomerates, etc), glass and marble mosaics. Ensure complete uniformity of colour, does not produce surface efforescence, dries quickly and therefore floor and wall coverings are ready for use quickly.

 BioBlock

 BioBlock technology applied to this product blocks various types of mould from forming and proliferating on the surfaceof the grout in humid conditions. Also the use of special hydrophobic additives (DropEffects technology) gives grouting mortars high water-repellent properties, making them less prone to dirtinessand with excellent durability.

Ideal for grout extior facades, balconies, terraces, swimmin gpools, bathrooms and kitchens. Especially suitable for grouting floors of supermarkets, highway service stations, restaurants, airports and public service grounds.

 Technical data:

Pot life : 20 - 25 mins

waiting time before finishing: 15 - 30 mins

Set to light foot traffic: approx 3 hours

Ready for use: 24 hours ( 48 hours for swimming pools)

colours: 26

Storage: 12 months

 Mapei Ultra Colour Plus

Completely removable installation system for ceramic tiles and stone materials. Can also be used as an anti-fracture and removable membrane.
Applications:
The Mapetex System consists of Mapetex, a non-woven fabric and Mapetex Strip, an adhesive strip.
Mapetex can be used with Mapetex Strip, as a removable base for the installation of floor and wall coverings on chipboard, wood, PVC, linoleum, ceramic and stone material substrates and on cement screeds and under-floor heating installations. It is particularly suitable for covering ceramic tile display panels because they can be rapidly replaced without damage.
Mapetex bonded with Keraquick + Latex Plus can also be used as an anti-fracture and removable membrane:
• for bonding floors on fresh cement screeds or in the presence of shrinkage cracks;
• for the installation of ceramic tiles and stone material. Packaging
Mapetex: rolls of 50 linear meters.
Mapetex Strip: rolls
of 5 - 10 - 25 linear meters.

Mapetex Info