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Don’t skim over the quality

Building Products Index Ltd June 27, 2020 Filler Leave a Comment

Toupret’s ready-to-use JOINT & SKIM dispels the myth that you can’t have quality and convenience at the same time. This professional advanced pre-mixed filler from the brand’s JOINT, SKIM & FILL range provides better results, fast, for plasterboard jointing and large surface skimming projects, meaning excellent results with enhanced productivity are possible.

Honed by the brand’s 80 years of experience in the construction and decorating industries, JOINT & SKIM is formulated to perform to the highest standards. This ensures a superb quality finish that will not flash or grin, meaning it can be overcoated without a mist coat or spot priming. The ready-made mix will also adhere to painted or unpainted surfaces, including masonry, cement or stone, making it a versatile solution for most projects.

JOINT & SKIM will only need a single coat for most jobs and creates an exceptionally smooth finish. It can be applied up to a depth of 5mm and is also designed for spray applications with airless machines over larger areas* in addition to manual applications. This makes JOINT & SKIM the ideal product for working across the largest of construction and development projects, as well as maintenance and repair.

Versatile, ready-to-use JOINT & SKIM is easy to sand to the highest-quality of finishes and complies with all key building regulations, including BS EN 13963 for jointing. It comes in a convenient 20kg bucket.

In fact, all jointing products in the Toupret JOINT, SKIM & FILL range are CE approved for jointing, and it includes a quick-drying product that you can paint over just three hours after application. This sits alongside a range of PATCH & REPAIR fillers that are excellent for snagging. The whole Toupret range benefits from the brand’s vast experience, including that of its Field Specialists, who work with architects, specifiers and end-users in the field.

Toupret is constantly working to ensure that its product range offers professionals simply better fillers across the board, with a commitment to providing a great finish that provides the industry with a constant stream of happy end-customers.

JOINT & SKIM, along with the whole Toupret range, is widely available from leading building and decorators’ merchants across the UK. For more information on the full Toupret product range, visit the website.

* Minimum airless machine flow rate = 5L-per-minute. Remove gun filters before spraying. Recommended nozzle = 3.31mm to 6.35mm.

New Toupret Joint, Skim & Fill range brings quality and efficiency to preparation work

Building Products Index Ltd September 27, 2019 Filler Leave a Comment

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Toupret’s innovative new Joint, Skim & Fill range creates a coherent jointing and filling system that makes sure the job is done right the first time. ‘Better results in less time’ is the touchstone for the range, which is designed with efficiency in mind and finish to the forefront.

Toupret’s Joint, Skim & Fill range is tailored to completing jointing and skimming tasks and is a whole solution for jointing plasterboard and surface finishing and filling on most substrates. The aim is to save time and money by producing a reliable range that does everything a builder, painter or decorator may need in terms of preparation work, combined with high quality performance on the first application.

The Quick Dry products in the range are the ones that will attract attention straight away, being ready for overpainting in just three hours.

All of the jointing products in the range, including Quick Dry, are CE approved and conform to the all-important BS EN 13963 for jointing materials for plasterboard. For normal applications they require just one coat and remove the need for spot-priming. The Patch & Repair additions to the range provide a hardy backline for preparation work, whether filling significant gaps or smoothing over and cracks.

Painters, decorators and builders want a product range that is versatile and solves all the problems that come with jointing, skimming and filling. The Joint, Skim & Fill range delivers all that and more, reducing on-problems significantly, so that it also saves time on the job. Shrinkage or re-filling are not regular concerns, whilst flashing and grinning are not a problem, so spot priming is all but done away with. All products are easy to mix, apply and to sand, providing an easy-on first-class finish that feathers well

As filling is Toupret’s stock-in-trade, it’s R&D team is constantly working to improve its products and this versatile range is developed by a team that knows a professional’s job is all about achieving a great finish with the minimum of fuss and time. The reliability, performance and workability of Joint, Skim & Fill will keep the trade as happy as its customers will be with the first-time-right finish.

Expect to see more Toupret products in work vans around the country, as well as on-site.

There are nine products in the Joint, Skim & Fill range, which comprises Joint, Skim & Fill in 5kg and 10kg bags; Joint, Skim & Fill Quick Dry in 5kg and 10kg bags; Joint and Skim in 20kg ready to use buckets; and Patch & Repair Filler Quick Dry in 1kg, 2kg and 5kg bags, as well as Patch & Repair Filler Ready To Use in a 1.5kg tub. Click here for more information on the range.