Ardex A 38  produces ultra-rapid drying floor screeds which can be walked on after just 3 hours, and have floorcoverings installed in as little as 4 hours, regardless of thickness.

Use Ardex A 38 for bonded, unbonded and floating screeds in internal and external locations, including wet areas such as swimming pools.

• Walk on after 3 hours
• Receives ceramic and natural stone tiles directly after only 4 hours
• Install carpet, wood and vinyl floorcoverings after 48 hours
• Maintains a working time of 1 hour
• Passes BRE Screed (ISCR) Testing after 6 hours
• After just one day, achieves the acceptable minimum compressive and tensile bending strengths attained by an ordinary cement screed after 28 days
• For internal and external use, including wet and submerged areas

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ARDEX A 29 cement for floor screeds has been developed to perform in real UK site conditions. Offering unique application and performance benefits to professional screeding contractors; ARDEX A 29 combines excellent workability, speed and performance.

• 90 minute working time
• Walkable after 8 hours
• Passes the BRE Screed (ISCR) Test in as little as 24 hours
• Install ceramic tiles in as little as 24 hours and natural stone after 7 days
• Install resilient and wood floor finishes in as little as 7 days
• Apply as a bonded, unbonded or floating screed
• Can be used with underfloor heating systems
• Can be pumped for fast application
• For internal and external use, including wet areas

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ARDEX K 71 is a premium, self-levelling industrial floor compound engineered for upgrading and renovating both new and existing internal floors in light to heavy-duty applications. This versatile product serves as both a durable wearing surface and a reliable base layer, capable of receiving a wide range of surface finishes including suitable resin coatings, tiles, and natural stone. Whether hand-mixed for smaller areas or pump applied for larger projects, ARDEX K 71 offers exceptional durability and fast drying properties, making it ideal for use in commercial and industrial environments where fast turnaround times are essential.

Formulated with special cements, aggregates, and chemical admixtures, ARDEX K 71 provides a hard, smooth, and flat wearing surface that can withstand heavy wheeled traffic and offers excellent abrasion resistance. Its unique Rapidry Formula allows for fast-track installation, with the ability to receive foot traffic in as little as 2-3 hours and final floor coverings in as little as 24 hours, depending on application thickness.

ARDEX K 71 can be applied in thicknesses from 3-30mm neat, or up to 50mm when incorporating aggregates, providing flexibility for different levelling requirements. This industrial-grade floor compound is suitable for use in areas such as warehouses, factories, workshops, and also commercial areas where a durable and aesthetically pleasing finish is required.

• Rapid drying and hardening for quick turnaround times
• Excellent self-levelling properties for a smooth, flat finish
• High strength and wear resistance for long-lasting performance
• Suitable for light to heavy-duty industrial applications
• Can be left as a wear layer or used as a base for resin coatings
• Low shrinkage for reduced cracking and improved dimensional stability
• Pumpable for efficient large-area application
• Compatible with underfloor heating systems

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ARDEX A 950 is a multi-purpose rapid-drying, deep-fill renovation compound that can be tiled over in as little as 90 minutes, and receive all finishes, including paint, after 24 hours. It can be used to reshape and repair walls and floors with high-build applications of up to 100mm, and will harden in as little as 1 hour, regardless of thickness.

• Can receive finishes, including paint, after 24 hours regardless of thickness
• Can be tiled in as little as 90 minutes
• Ideal for general building work, smoothing, repairing and levelling of walls and filling large cavities and deep holes around door frames, boxing in pipework, making columns and pedestals.
• Can facilitate “dot and dab” fixing of plasterboard
• Can be used as a modelling mortar to smooth and shape before drying with stencils to create architectural features, such as columns and pedestals
• Low-tension, shrinkage compensated, even in thick layers
• Slump free, apply from 2mm to 100mm

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Ardex K 11 Levelling And Smoothing Compound

is a cost effective free flowing rapid hardening levelling and smoothing compound designed for levelling and smoothing a wide range of sub-floor types including cement/sand screeds, gypsum screeds and concrete.

• Rapid hardening – walkable in 2½ hours
• Suitable for use over traces of adhesive residues
• Suitable for floors with underfloor heating
• Pumpable

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Ardex Fa 20 Fibre Reinforced Levelling And Smoothing Compound For Timber Floors is a Fibre reinforced smoothing compound ideal for use on timber floors, ensuring a flexible, crack-free finish with exceptional stability when used to smooth timber floors prior to applying floorcoverings.

• Rapid hardening and drying – walkable in just 2 hours
• Can be applied directly to floor boards
• Excellent smooth surface finish
• Multipurpose, also ideal for levelling and smoothing cement/sand screeds, steel and existing tiled surfaces
• Suitable for use on screeds containing underfloor heating

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Ardex Arditex NA Levelling and Smoothing Compound saves you both time and money by removing the need for intensive preparation and priming. Its renowned versatility and advanced site tolerance reduces preparation machinery hire costs, lost time and call backs, helping to ensure that with Ardex NA, there really is no alternative.

• Apply direct to almost all substrates without priming, including old adhesive residues, bitumen, flooring grade plywood, ArdexDamp Proof Membranes, ceramic and thermoplastic tiles and even steel
• Unaffected by moisture and can be used direct to damp concrete
• Install floorcoverings after 4 hours and ceramic tiles after 3 hours
• Apply from feather edge to 12mm neat, and up to 30mm incorporating ARDEX Coarse Aggregate
• Walk on after 2 hours
• Convenient bag and bottle mix with no measuring or water required
• Advanced performance, even at lower temperatures
• Suitable for use with underfloor heating

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ARDEX K 40 HB is a fibre-reinforced, high-build levelling and smoothing compound designed for applications ranging from 3 mm up to 40 mm. It hardens rapidly and can be walked on in as little as 2 hours, regardless of thickness, minimising disruption on active sites, particularly those constantly in use by customers or other trades. With almost double the working time of competitor products, trowel marks smooth out easily, joins between mixes can be spiked up to 30 minutes after application, and there’s little or no additional preparation needed before fitting. Applications up to 5 mm can receive resilient floor coverings, including timber, after 6 hours, while thicker applications up to 40 mm are ready after 48 hours. Ceramic floor tiles can be fixed just 2 hours after application.

Apply most floorcoverings after 12 hours
Receives light foot traffic in as little as 2 hours
Excellent flow and application properties
Can be used on heated screeds

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• Apply from 5mm to 35mm in one application
• Rapid hardening – walkable in approximately 2 hours, even with thick applications
• Floorcoverings can be applied after 24 hours, regardless of thickness
• Ceramic floor tiles can be fixed after 4 hours
• Pumpable
• Strong, high compressive strength

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Mapei Latexplan Trade is used for levelling and smoothing differences in thickness of 3 to 10 mm (in one application) on new and existing substrates, to prepare them for any type of flooring installation. Latexplan Trade is suitable for areas subject to chairs with castors.

Mapei Latexplan Trade is a two-part smoothing compound that consists of a grey powder (part A) containing special cements, graded silica sands and additives to be mixed with a synthetic rubber latex (part B). Latexplan Trade can be walked on after approximately 1ó-2 hours and is ready for installing flooring after about 12 hours, depending on the thickness and the ambient temperature.

Mapei Latexplan Trade has a very low odour and this makes it suitable for use in confined and inhabited areas, where working and/or occupation must be maintained.

Suitable for use under a damp proof membrane such as Mapeproof ESM, where residual or static moisture is present. For the best results, Latexplan Trade should be mixed without extra latex or water being added.

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