Product Feature: 3701 Fortified Mortar Bed

 

3701 Fortified Mortar Bed is a polymer fortified blend of carefully selected polymers, Portland cement, and graded aggregates. 3701 Fortified Mortar Bed does not require the use of latex admix, you only need to add water to produce thick bed mortar with exceptional strength.

Features & Benefits

• Polymer fortified - no need for latex additives
• Premixed - no job site blending of powders required
• Economical - saves time and money
• High strength formula
• Pumpable for large scale veneer projects
• Exceeds ASTM C270 requirements

Click here for more product information.

Chat with your LATICRETE Technical Sales Rep about your next project - need technical support -  Call 1800 331 012 or contact us here. 

Celebrating 65 Years

 

As the year draws to a close, we're celebrating 2021's final Throwback Thursday with one last glimpse at the 65-year history of LATICRETE. This small sign in the middle of the Connecticut grassland marked the location of a future building site for the research, manufacturing, warehousing and distribution of LATICRETE products. 

Within 65 years, that land would develop and become a headquarters for global operations. The LATICRETE brand has become globally known for the permanent, problem-free installation of tile and stone. From this small piece of undeveloped land grew a company that now spans the world in over 100 countries.

From all of us here at LATICRETE Australia, we thank you for 65 years of support, and as we move into our 66th year we look forward to celebrating many more milestones with you!

Product Feature: LATAPOXY 310 Stone Adhesive

LATAPOXY® 310 Rapid Stone Adhesive is a two component, high strength epoxy adhesive. Engineered, formulated and optimised for the spot bonding fixing method of installing tile and stone on vertical surfaces. LATAPOXY 310 Rapid Stone Adhesive maintains its non-sag consistency at high working temperatures up to 35°C. Interior, exterior, wet areas and dry areas. Walls, ceilings and soffits.

Key Features

• Fast, permanent bond – 5 to 8 minute set time. 
• Easy to use – 1:1 mixing ratio by volume. 
• Non staining – ideal for white and light coloured marbles, other stones and tiles. 
• Withstands shock and vibration.
• Durable permanent bond, will not deteriorate over time. 
• Safe – no solvents. 
• Non-sag – when applied up to 25 mm thick. 
• Standard version is available; 45 – 60 minute set up. Approved by the following building codes bodies for exterior installations; ICC, IBC.

For more product information click here.

Are you getting ready to start a project? Contact us about your next project by calling 1800 331 012 or email us here. 

STONETECH® Epoxy Grout Haze & Coating Stripper

STONETECH® Epoxy Grout Haze & Coating Stripper is a fast-acting, water-based gel designed to safely remove tough epoxy grout haze and various coatings from vertical and horizontal surfaces.

Features & Benefits

• Eliminates epoxy grout haze in 10 minutes or less
• Safely removes epoxy grout haze and tough coatings - varnish, lacquer, sealer, wax, paint, polyurethane, and acrylic
• Water-based formula
• Fast-acting gel - great for vertical and horizontal applications
• Low odour and non-flammable
• Professional strength
• No Methylene Chloride

Click here for more product information.

View/download:

STONETECH Surface Care Product Selection Guide

STONETECH Stone & Tile Care Guide

Have questions regarding the use, installation, or maintenance of STONETECH or sealed stone? Contact LATICRETE Technical Services on 1800 331 012 or email sales@laticrete.com.au. 

Product Feature: PRIME-N-BOND™

  

PRIME-N-BOND™ is here to stay!

PRIME-N-BOND™ is a versatile, ready-to-use, single coat, low VOC primer designed to enhance the adhesion of adhesives to many smooth and non-absorptive substrates that can be difficult to bond to.

Features & Benefits:

• Multi-purpose and can be used on a wide range of substrates
• One component, ready-to-use, no mixing required
• Single coat application
• Apply with roller or brush
• Formulated with aggregate for an enhanced mechanical bond of mortars to a variety of smooth or low-absorptive substrates
• Improves bonding of cement self-leveling products
• Low VOC, low odour, ideal for interior and occupied areas

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For more information contact your LATICRETE Sales Rep or call LATICRETE on 1800 331 012 for more info.

Merry Christmas from LATICRETE Australia

 

 To all of our Customers, Colleagues, and Friends! 

The team from LATICRETE Australia wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas! 

May your day be filled with happiness, laughter, family, and friends.

Protect Your Tile and Stone Surfaces

 

Keeping Stone & Tile Beautiful

Protect Your Stone and Tile

Your investment in natural stone or premium tile deserves the right product to ensure it retains its beauty and function over the long term. STONETECH® makes caring for your natural stone or tile easy. You can be confident that you will extend the life and preserve the value of your investment.

STONETECH offers a complete range of professional-grade, surface care solutions designed to PROTECT, CLEAN, and TRANSFORM your stone, tile, masonry, and grout surfaces.

• PROTECT countertops, floors, backsplashes, vanities and outdoor living areas for everyday use with STONETECH natural look, penetrating sealers and prevent unsightly water, oil and stain damage.
• CLEAN safe and effectively with STONETECH daily, heavy duty and problem solving cleaners that are specifically formulated for use on stone, tile, masonry and grout.
• TRANSFORM the look of your surface with colour or gloss enhancing sealers to restoration products - we can help bring your surface back to life!

Our STONETECH Stone & Tile Care Guide provides a list of simple do’s and don’ts for you to follow. It also contains an easy-to-understand product list, to find the right STONETECH product for your needs. Click here to view/download.

Click here to view/download our STONETECH Surface Care Product Selection Guide.

For more information on LATICRETE installation materials, product demos, or technical support, phone LATICRETE - 1800 331 012 or email: sales@laticrete.com.au. 

Celebrating 65 Years

 

It's Throwback Thursday once again, and in celebrating 65 years of LATICRETE we're taking you back to 1967. This photo is of our founder, Dr. Henry M. Rothberg and his wife, Lillian R. Rothberg on a flight to Europe in 1967.

During the 1960s, the Rothberg family would make several such trips across the Atlantic to conduct business with their new international partners. The company's first overseas expansion came through a deal with German ceramics manufacturer Villeroy & Boch.

From there LATICRETE grew and expanded to Australia several years later when an importer of Italian glass mosaic tiles required a solution for installing glass mosaic tiles to high-rise building facades. LATICRETE had the solution.

LATICRETE is the name architects, designers and professional installers know and rely on. 

To find out more about the history of LATICRETE in Australia, visit our website here.

Best Wishes for the Festive Season!

 

Today is the last business day at LATICRETE Australia for 2021!

We hope you get to enjoy the festive period surrounded by your loved ones. The team at LATICRETE will be enjoying a well deserved break:

Our offices will be closed from 3:30pm today and will reopen for business on Monday, 10 January 2022.

The team at LATICRETE Australia wishes you and your family a wonderful festive season.

If you have any questions regarding the LATICRETE Australia 2021 Holiday Schedule, please do not hesitate to contact us - Call 1800 331 012, email sales@laticrete.com.au or chat with your local LATICRETE Sales Rep!

Rapid & Fast Setting Tile Application Systems

   

The perfect solution for rapid 

and fast setting installations!

Struggling to complete your projects in time due to the weather, or do you have a tight deadline?

LATICRETE is constantly working on finding solutions to address evolving and changing job site construction techniques, materials, and methods.

LATICRETE products recommended in the Rapid & Fast Setting Ceramic and Stone Tile Application Systems brochures are for installations of ceramic and stone tile, where shorter wait times are required before opening to traffic. 

An overview of each LATICRETE product is given as a general guide to facilitate the selection of the appropriate product for a specific application. Click here to view/download the Rapid & Fast Setting Ceramic and Stone Tile Application Systems brochure.

For more information contact LATICRETE on 1800 331012 or for technical support click here.

Aura Tiles Pool and Veneer Project

This beautiful feature wall is part of a new outdoor project by Kevin from Aura Tiles. LATICRETE QLD Technical Sales Representative, Corey Downes was on-site with Kevin in Doonan, QLD as he completed the veneer wall using LATAPOXY® 300 Adhesive. 

The next part of the project is the pool which will be waterproofed using HYDRO BAN® and HYDRO BAN® Slurry, with coping and waterline tiles installed using 254 adhesive and grouted with SPECTRALOCK® PRO Premium Grout*. 

Learn more about these products:

• LATAPOXY 300 Adhesive is a chemical resistant, epoxy adhesive that will bond to most sound, clean surfaces. The adhesive spreads easily and cleans with water while fresh. Superior strength and workability. Prevents curling of watersensitive marbles and agglomerates. Will not stain white or light-coloured stone.
• HYDRO BAN is a thin, load bearing waterproofing/crack isolation membrane that DOES NOT require the use of fabric in the field, coves or corners. HYDRO BAN is a single component self curing liquid rubber polymer that forms a flexible, seamless waterproofing membrane that bonds directly to a wide variety of substrates.
• HYDRO BAN SLURRY is a cement based, one component, polymer fortified material that mixes with water and easily applies with brush, roller or trowel. This product can be used on retaining walls, water features, slabs on ground and immersed installations where water resistance or protection from substrate moisture is required.
• 254 adhesive is the ultimate one-step, polymer fortified, thin-set adhesive for interior and exterior installation of ceramic tile, reduced thickness porcelain, stone, quarry tile, pavers and brick. 254 adhesive, designed to just mix with water, has a long open time with unsurpassed adhesion and workability. 
• SPECTRALOCK PRO Premium Grout* is a patented, high performance epoxy grout which offers excellent colour uniformity, durability, stain protection, and beautiful, full grout joints in an easy to-use, non-sag formula.

View/download our Pool, Spa and Fountain Tiling Systems brochure which includes a 10, 15 and 25 Year Residential Swimming Pool System Warranty.

Contact us to discuss your next project or arrange a demo. Call 1800 331 012 or email us here.

LATICRETE Australia Holiday Schedule

 

The end of the year is fast approaching, and LATICRETE Australia will be taking a break over the Christmas/New Year period. 

Please refer to important dates with regards to No Shipping or Receiving, Last Business Day for 2021, and when LATICRETE Australia will Reopen for business in 2022. 

If you have any questions regarding the LATICRETE Australia 2021 Holiday Schedule, please do not hesitate to contact us! 

Call 1800 331 012, email sales@laticrete.com.au or chat with your local LATICRETE Sales Rep!

Celebrating 65 Years

Wow, can it get much more old school than this? We're celebrating 65 years of LATICRETE with going back to the beginning. In this photo is a young Dr. Henry M. Rothberg with his sons David and Henry B. Rothberg in 1954!

Two years later, Dr. Rothberg would go on to revolutionise the tile installation industry and become the founder of LATICRETE. Many years later, those two young boys would grow up to follow in their father's footsteps and take on senior positions in what would become a global company.

To find out more about the history of LATICRETE, visit our website here.

LATICRETE® SUPERCAP® AllPrep Brochure

 

Take a look at our system and you'll find benefits that 
go way beyond extremely flat floors!

The LATICRETE® SUPERCAP® System combines our industry leading, patented pump truck technology and innovative products to deliver perfectly flat, dry floors. For over a decade, we have delivered spectacular time-saving, cost-effective solutions that correct uneven concrete, reduce moisture vapour emissions and shorten build times. This system benefits the entire project from design to completion, all backed by the industry leader in globally proven construction solutions.

With our system of premium self-levelling underlayment (SLU) and patented mobile blending unit, we can correct concrete deflection to an extremely flat specification at a blistering rate. Which allows the following trades to maximise their efficiency too. And we do it without tying up lifts or creating harmful dust, making for a safer job site.

View/download the SUPERCAP System Overview (SCT-1000) Brochure.

Consider using the LATICRETE SUPERCAP Pump Truck on your next project? 

Contact AllPrep Flooring Specialists Pty Ltd:

Call: 1300 ALLPREP

Email: david@allprepflooring.com.au

Website: www.allprepflooring.com.au

Victoria Indoor Pool

 

This gorgeous indoor pool comes with its own tiled feature wall! This stunning pool was tiled by Paul and the team at Oceania Pool Tiling. LATICRETE VIC Technical Sales Rep, Chris Stenhouse was on-site with the Oceania team, as well as the building teams from Neptune Pools and VCON Builders, as they put the finishing touches on this pool.

The Oceania team installed the 20mm glass mosaic blend tiles using the trusted LATICRETE products:

• HYDRO BAN® is a thin, load bearing waterproofing/crack isolation membrane that DOES NOT require the use of fabric in the field, coves or corners. HYDRO BAN is a single component self curing liquid rubber polymer that forms a flexible, seamless waterproofing membrane that bonds directly to a wide variety of substrates.
• 254 adhesive is the ultimate one-step, polymer fortified, thin-set adhesive for interior and exterior installation of ceramic tile, reduced thickness porcelain, stone, quarry tile, pavers and brick. 254 adhesive, designed to just mix with water, has a long open time with unsurpassed adhesion and workability.

View/download our Pool, Spa and Fountain Tiling Systems brochure which includes a 10, 15 and 25 Year Residential Swimming Pool System Warranty.

For more information on LATICRETE tile and stone installation systems and warranties, contact your LATICRETE Technical Sales Rep, call 1800 331 012, or contact us here.

PERMACOLOR® Select^ Care and Maintenance

The quality of cement based grouts continues to improve throughout the ceramic and stone tile, and adhered masonry veneer industries. New technologies mean that grouts get harder, minimise efflorescence and are easier to install than previous technologies, as referenced in TDS-1021.

PERMACOLOR® Select^ provides the latest advancement to cement-based grouts – one universal grout powder with pigment added to the mix water prior to blending.

However, it is important to note that no cement-based grout is self-cleaning or absolutely stain-resistant. Regular and routine maintenance is required to maintain the long-term beauty of the grout, and, wiping up spills quickly and thoroughly will help minimise the possibility of staining the grout. The following information will help to maintain the grout for many years.

Regular Maintenance
PERMACOLOR Select offers enhanced protection from stains:

• For routine, everyday maintenance cleaning a clear, pH-neutral cleaner (e.g. STONETECH® Stone & Tile Cleaner) is recommended.
• For soiling from grease, use an alkaline cleaner (e.g. STONETECH KLENZALL™ Cleaner).
• For mould or soap scum use a cleaner specifically designed to remove these organisms and deposits (e.g. STONETECH Mold & Mildew Stain Remover and STONETECH Soap Scum Remover).
• For hard water deposits and other inorganic stains use STONETECH RESTORE™ to remove these residues and stains.
• Some floor cleaning procedures, such as damp mopping, will deposit dirt residue in the grout joint.

• If the grout appears soiled, mop a solution of STONETECH Stone & Tile Cleaner onto the surface and scrub gently with a nylon brush or scrub pad.
• It is recommended that the mop water be removed by vacuum from the grout and tile surfaces before it dries. Rinse well, vacuum and allow the surface to dry.

To continue reading the PERMACOLOR Select Care Maintenance, Technical Data Sheet TDS-1021 click here.

Contact LATICRETE to discuss your next project, or for more information call 1800 3310 12 or email: sales@laticrete.com.au.

^United States Patent No.: 678 4229 (and other Patents)