Flowpoint rapid set grout=boss - Jointing compound

[matty brock]

I was just wondering if anyone had tried a jointing product by a company called Instarmac.
It is called flowpoint and it is a rapid set cement based sluury. You just add water to it and mix with a whisk,wet the area to be grouted, pour on and squeegee around, leave for about fifteen minutes (in warm weather) about an hour in colder weather, and hose off.

Ill tell you what, it goes rock solid !

2 of us pointed 60m2 of granite setts (400x150x65) in about 3 hours and 3 hours later you couldnt even press a key into it, proper solid like ! (we used 10 bags, 5mm joint)

The advantages over Rompox that i can see is, that it needent be covered after you have finished to protect from the rain, which on a large area can be virtually imposible and time consuming, also the cost, for a 25kg bag its around £20 plus the dreaded, also you dont need to use a whole bag in one go, so if you only need a small bit to finish just keep it for the next job.

The only down side is you need alot of water to clean off and you get alot of slurry waste to clean up but a small price to pay for what I think is a quality product.

[lutonlagerlout]

is it not snowing in the 'pool then matty?
been snowed in proper here since thursday
cabin fever is setting in
a la shining
LLL

[matty brock]

No mate, no snow here, dead frosty like. Its about the only bit of luck that we have had round here, both footy teams are shocking at the moment although im not botherd about the blue side like.
Fortunetly we have been doing a fence the past few days so we could continue working, getting the pennies in for the christmas bevvys ! you know the score LLL,haha.

[Tony McC]

I was in town yesterday - had to take the younger daughter to that Liverpool One wallet-emptying area - and we were pelted by some of the largest hailstones I've seen in years.

We took advantage of a brief lull in the onslaught to make our way back to Lime St Station, and only just in time, judging from the pandemonium that started up as the next shower threatened to smash through the roof. As we headed back east on the train to Warrington, the size of the hailstones littering the various station platforms reduced from the size of a penny down to dust, and by the time we reached Birchwood (nearest station to Culcheth) they'd changed from hailstones to yet more snowflakes.