Architect and Builder September/October 2015

HIGH-PROFILE GROUP 5 TILING PROJECT COMPLETED USING TAL PRODUCTS Tile and construction adhesives market-leader, TAL, has played a central role in ensuring the successful tiling of Group 5’s Midrand head office, following the supply of numerous adhesives and ancillary products for the installation of 6,500m² of tiles. As part of the project, the double-volume entrance lobby was tiled with mixed sized, textured, full body porcelain tiles in a light concrete colour. TAL technical representative, Schalk Pelzer, states that the company supplied TAL Goldstar 6 for the floor and TAL Goldstar 12 for the wall tile installations. “TAL Goldstar 6 is a rapid-setting, high-strength, grey powder adhesive ideal for fixing porcelain and dark-coloured granite, marble and natural stone tiles to walls and floors in interior and exterior installations. It is shrinkage compensated and allows traffic after 6 hours, depending on conditions. TAL Goldstar 12 boasts the same features, but is quick-setting rather than rapid-setting, allowing traffic after 12 hours, and is suitable for ceramic, porcelain and terrazzo tiles,” he says. Due to the fact that the interior of the building features limited-support steel structure staircases that can experience substantial deflection and vibration movement, TAL specified the use of a highly flexible adhesive system, namely TAL Goldflex mixed with TAL Bond, to ensure that the tile installations on the staircases are able to withstand the extreme conditions. TAL is ISO 9001:2008 quality management system certified and its products are designed, manufactured and tested to TAL standards, thereby providing customers with full peace-of-mind that products will perform to exact specifications. As a world-class local manufacturer, TAL develops laboratory-tested bespoke tiling solutions in the quickest turnaround times. “We also offer dedicated after-sales and onsite technical support. The successful completion of this high-profile and large-scale project is proof of our unrivalled local capabilities,” Pelzer concludes. www.tal.co.za News Watch 9

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