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Floors, Walls & Ceilings
New Altro Fortis offers tough love for walls, doors and corners
Altro has expanded its range of wall cladding with the introduction of new Altro Fortis - a system that provides seriously tough protection for walls, doors and corners.
Altro Fortis keeps interiors safe from impact and scuff damage, and looking good for longer. It has been developed to work with the popular Altro Whiterock range to create aesthetic consistency between hygienic and general areas.
Where Altro Whiterock offers an ultra-hygienic wall protection system, Altro Fortis offers enhanced protection for areas where scuff and impact protection is the priority. Altro Fortis also combines perfectly with Altro’s 2.5mm safety flooring ranges, providing a complete, durable and fully-integrated system for hard-working areas.
As the name suggests, Altro Fortis has the strength to deliver long-term protection where high levels of impact are expected. It is ideal for use where walls, doors and corners are constantly knocked, such as school classrooms and corridors, non-clinical areas in healthcare, retail, and any busy public and service areas. In fact, anywhere that needs to work hard, but where appearances matter.
Whittington Health, in north London, is already using Altro Fortis wall protection in their Emergency Department (ED) ‘hot corridor’, and the system is proving robust enough to withstand the rigours of busy hospital life.
Altro –Enquiry 173
T&R wood flooring joins design spec at chic Concord House
Five Kährs’ wood floor designs are being supplied, by T&R, at Concord House in Birmingham which will include 15 New York style loft apartments, Ranging from 1,100 to 2,800ft2, and four luxury penthouses, up to 4,000ft2 in size. The wood floors specified are one-strip designs, crafted from knotty, sustainable oak and pre-finished with oil. They include nuttoned Oak Concrete, which is brushed, handscraped and bevelled, and Oak Slate, which has an additional smoke treatment, to give the floor a grey-tinged tone.
T & R –Enquiry 171
Styccobond F41 now available in roller-friendly rectangular buckets
F. Ball and Co. Ltd has introduced new, 15-litre rectangular buckets for its Styccobond F41 carpet tile tackifier. The enhanced rectangular packaging is designed to allow contractors to apply the adhesive using a roller dipped directly into the bucket, offering greater convenience, time savings and less waste. Styccobond F41 is a solvent free acrylic polymer emulsion adhesive that contains a rust inhibitor. It is designed to provide a permanently tacky film, which prevents 'loose-lay' carpet tiles from moving under normal traffic, but enables them to be lifted and replaced easily when required.
F. Ball and Co. Ltd –Enquiry 174
Polyflor launches Designatex for the home
Polyflor has launched a range of hard wearing flooring developed specifically for the home, the Designatex collection of textile backed luxury sheet vinyl flooring. The stylish yet practical Designatex vinyl flooring range includes 12 wood effect and 6 stone effect designs to enhance any room in the home.
Available in 2, 3 and 4 metre widths to accommodate larger living spaces, UK manufactured Designatex has a 3.0mm gauge and 0.3mm wear layer with SureTread R10 slip resistance to help prevent slips in the home.
Polyflor –Enquiry 175 Johnson Tiles unveils spectacular mirrored 3D wall of evolving colour at Clerkenwell Design Week 2015
Johnson Tiles unveiled a spectacular reflective 3D wall of colour, transforming the entrance to the Design Factory area throughout Clerkenwell Design Week 2015. With mirrors cleverly placed behind rows of tiles emerging from the wall, it produced an array of reflections, evolving shades and playful visual effects, interacting with passers-by and the surrounding buildings. The stunning installation, entitled ‘Verve’, was commissioned specially for the festival as part of the CDW Presents series, transforming the outside of The Shed at Design Factory. It was inspired by rows of dominoes and created with more than 6,000 tiles.
Johnson Tiles –Enquiry 172
SimpLay loose lay tiles ensure quick turnaround for Vodafone store
Polyflor’s SimpLay loose lay vinyl floor tiles helped add the finishing touches to a refurbished Vodafone store in Birmingham city centre recently. The SimpLay collection of loose lay tiles features eight authentic wood planks designs, six natural stone tile effects and two weave pattern tiles. With a 5mm gauge and 0.7mm wear layer, SimpLay loose lay tiles include a unique, non-skid honeycomb backing layer to ensure that the tiles stay in position and glass fibre reinforcement layer to enhance dimensional stability. Individual SimpLay tiles can easily be replaced, relocated and reused.
