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BAL XL Floor One - Tile Adhesive

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Building Adhesives Ltd

Semi rapid-setting, highly polymer-modified, water/ frost-resistant, flexible, semi-pourable cementitious tile adhesive for floors with high gel rheology.

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Application

Use for:

  • Fixing large and small format ceramics, porcelain and vitrified tiles, most natural stones, terrazzo in dry or wet interior and exterior environments.
  • For fixing agglomerate stone.
  • Recommended for large format tiles, uneven thickness (slate) tiles/slabs, areas of total immersion in water e.g. swimming pools bases and wet room floors. 
  • Also suitable as patch repair mortar..
  • Installations subject to limited movement and vibration.
  • Heated screeds.


Suitable surfaces:

  • Concrete; cement: sand screeds.
  • BAL QUICKSET CEMENT: sand screeds.
  • BAL BOND SBR SLURRY.
  • Asphalt (Flooring Grade Only).
  • Fibre reinforced cement boards and lightweight tile backer boards (Floors).
  • Existing vinyl tiles.
  • Existing glazed/unglazed ceramic tiles, quarry tiles, terrazzo and natural stone.
  • Metal.
  • Anhydrite/calcium sulfate and hemi-hydrate screed.
  • Using onto BAL FLEXBONE 2Easy over Anhydrite/calcium sulfate and hemi-hydrate screed.
  • Overlaid timber floors (min. 15 mm).
  • Tongued and grooved floorboards with BAL RAPID-MAT/BAL FLEXBONE Varied or BAL FLEXBONE 2Easy.
  • Heated Screeds.
  • Undertile electrical heating systems.


See manufacturer's literature for further information.

Description

Semi-rapid setting, highly polymer-modified, water/ frost resistant, flexible, semi-pourable cementitious tile adhesive for floors with high gel rheology.


Features and benefits:

  • Extended working-time: up to 1.5 hours.
  • Extended open-time: up to 1 hour.
  • Semi-rapid: grout in 6 hours at all thicknesses.
  • Ideal for natural stone and all large format tiles.
  • Allows solid-bed fixing without back-buttering.
  • Removes need for additional leveller; up to 25 mm bed depth.
  • Flexible and high strength.
  • Suitable for Underfloor and Undertile heating.
  • Suitable for use to install external porcelain tiles.


Not suitable for metal, painted, tiling to existing glazed tiles and all wall substrates/ backgrounds.

General information

Color

White

Finish

Other

Material

Polymer-modified cement

Shape

Formless

Warranty description

25 year

Uniclass

Pr_20_31_02_12 Cementitious adhesivesPrimary

CAWS

M40/5 Tiling to

M40/110 Tiling to

Specification data - Cementitious adhesives

Open time (minimum)

45—60 minutes at 20°C.

Colour

White.

Pack size

20 kg.

Setting time

6 hours at 20°C.

Pot life

90 minutes at 20°C.

Standards

To BS EN 12004, BS EN ISO 9001, ISO 14001.

Temperature resistance

-30°C to 70°C.

Bed height

3—25 mm.

Coverage

Guidance for specification option:

May vary dependent on nature and flatness of surface, and on trowel used:

  • 1.5 mm bed depth: 0.5 m²/kg.
  • 3 mm bed depth: 0.25 m²/kg.
  • 6 mm bed depth: 0.125 m²/kg.

Composition

Semi-rapid highly polymer-modified cement based
powder.