Hi,

I'm not an experienced tiler, more of a Handyman.

A customer of mine has asked me to finish off the grouting on a patch of floor tile that is no bigger than 1m x 0.5m, so pretty small.
Becuase she wanted a specific grout colour, I suggested she visit Topps and pick one herself. Thing is, she came away with an order (the colour she picked is not a stock item) but was talked into purchasing 1ltr of BAL ADMIX GT1.
Now I know nothing about this stuff other than I have read on the BAL website, but given that the cost is more than the grout, and is only for a small area, is it really even worth bothering with it?

Cheers

Is the floor laid onto wood ? Underfloor heating ? Would have been better with Mapei ultra colour !

What grout was she sold.. Topps also sell super flex 1 part by BAL, the 2 part mix is a lot more expensive..

Originally Posted by JamesBrownLive

Hi,

I'm not an experienced tiler, more of a Handyman.

A customer of mine has asked me to finish off the grouting on a patch of floor tile that is no bigger than 1m x 0.5m, so pretty small.
Becuase she wanted a specific grout colour, I suggested she visit Topps and pick one herself. Thing is, she came away with an order (the colour she picked is not a stock item) but was talked into purchasing 1ltr of BAL ADMIX GT1.
Now I know nothing about this stuff other than I have read on the BAL website, but given that the cost is more than the grout, and is only for a small area, is it really even worth bothering with it?

Cheers

Hi. Basically this product will give the grout greater flexibility but make sure that you have a grout that is suitable to use with the admix GT1 as not all grouts are suitable.

Need to know the substrate that the tiles are fixed to as to see if the admix is necessary.

Thanks to everyone for the replies thus far.

Floor is concrete, Topps have sold her BAL MicroColour Wide Joint Chocolate. Don't ask me if it's milk or dark, as I have no idea

Cheers

Originally Posted by JamesBrownLive

Thanks to everyone for the replies thus far.

Floor is concrete, Topps have sold her BAL MicroColour Wide Joint Chocolate. Don't ask me if it's milk or dark, as I have no idea

Cheers

Lol oh joy of joys, wont you have fun using that ....*evil Grin*

are the tile porcelain, if so then the GT1 needs to be mixed 1 part addmix to 2 parts water, if there ceramic tiles then you dont need it.

Is there under floor heating under the tiles?

why did they sell her a 1 lt bottle to do that small amount of grouting? thats enough to do about 50m2

Originally Posted by andy allen

why did they sell her a 1 lt bottle to do that small amount of grouting? thats enough to do about 50m2

Why did topps try to sell me a bucket of tub adhesive to lay slate?

Originally Posted by Dylante

Why did topps try to sell me a bucket of tub adhesive to lay slate?

Originally Posted by whitebeam

I know! He looked about 16, telling a tiler which adhesive to buy. I was lost for words.

They have also told me that toppfix is better than Mapei keraquick and I shouldnt waste my time mixing up adhesive when I can just buy it ready mixed.

I thought topps trained staff

Originally Posted by whitebeam

I thought topps trained staff

Oh Im sure they do.

Train them in the art of upsetting tilers...

Originally Posted by Dylante

Is there under floor heating under the tiles?

Nope, just concrete.

Originally Posted by whitebeam

I thought topps trained staff

It gets worse... it turns out the person who sold it to her was the branch manager

i looked at a job last year they sold the customer 4 20kg bags of bal fexable rapid set to do a 4m2 bathroom floor.

I thought it was just our local ToppsTiles branch here that was so criminally useless quite something to make a general policy out of it... in politics or other countries it would be called corruption....

How did I miss this interesting post? You peeps are so nasty to lovely Topps (I am a Topps Tiles Trade Account holder).

Ahem.

Topps Tiles is a professional retailer, complies to ISO 9001, and has a Customer Service Charter. It also has a disclaimer - Topps Tiles can only give General Advice based on the information supplied by the customer and cannot be held liable for anything said or done by its staff based on Generally Supplied and Uncorroborated and/or Unrecorded Information..

I buy from Tile Giant rather a lot now.

Dont feel bad Andy, I should think that we all have accounts at Topps, I wonder how much money I have put through mine in the last 12 months... Prob about £6