Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 12:16 am
Long time lurker and infrequent poster here. Went to glee earlier today in order to have a good look about but mainly so see if I could come to a conclusion on where I'm going when I'm jointing natural stonework.
I typically joint mixed packs of Indian Sandstone/Limestone and over the last couple of years have switched from traditional pointing off a trowel (slow but ok), to Geofix (quick but rubbish - only used it once), back to taditional, then to Romex.
With the Romex no complaints apart from slight staining on Kota Black with drain. Oh - and one job where I tried to mix in some black cementone with my sand in some romex patio. The customer liked the idea of realy dark joints and the cementone - being really dry - absorbed much of the epoxy resin and knackered the whole thing up. Re-did it next day with no dye.
Now to my point. Saw the Easijoint stand at glee. Saw their product. Really liked the look of it. It looks like a halfway product between traditional and brush in methods. It's a polymer compound. Mix a 25kg bag from a 10 colour range in with 4 litres of water with blender/gorilla bucket and instead of brushing like romex, scoop it in to a mortar gun and inject in to the joints. It had an easy texture to inject. Wait for it to go off a little then strike it or run a jointing bar round it.
It looked very neat on the stand and what appealed to me other then the process was the cement look finish. I'm not a big fan of the finish on brushed-in products, even after running jointing bar round them. The Easijoint stuff looked like well jointed and toned traditional finished cementitious pointing. Apparently it sets to over 50N too.
I'm doing a small job of Indian sandstone this week so thinking about running to Chorley to pick up a few bags to joint it with on Friday. The job is for my brother-in-laws mother who doesn't mind being a guinea pig.
I hadn't heard of this stuff before glee and would really appreciate any help or info from people who have used it before.
I know you were there Tony - just missed you by 5 minutes at GftK stand. Perhaps you know of the easijoint people in Chorley? Many thanks for any advice.
I typically joint mixed packs of Indian Sandstone/Limestone and over the last couple of years have switched from traditional pointing off a trowel (slow but ok), to Geofix (quick but rubbish - only used it once), back to taditional, then to Romex.
With the Romex no complaints apart from slight staining on Kota Black with drain. Oh - and one job where I tried to mix in some black cementone with my sand in some romex patio. The customer liked the idea of realy dark joints and the cementone - being really dry - absorbed much of the epoxy resin and knackered the whole thing up. Re-did it next day with no dye.
Now to my point. Saw the Easijoint stand at glee. Saw their product. Really liked the look of it. It looks like a halfway product between traditional and brush in methods. It's a polymer compound. Mix a 25kg bag from a 10 colour range in with 4 litres of water with blender/gorilla bucket and instead of brushing like romex, scoop it in to a mortar gun and inject in to the joints. It had an easy texture to inject. Wait for it to go off a little then strike it or run a jointing bar round it.
It looked very neat on the stand and what appealed to me other then the process was the cement look finish. I'm not a big fan of the finish on brushed-in products, even after running jointing bar round them. The Easijoint stuff looked like well jointed and toned traditional finished cementitious pointing. Apparently it sets to over 50N too.
I'm doing a small job of Indian sandstone this week so thinking about running to Chorley to pick up a few bags to joint it with on Friday. The job is for my brother-in-laws mother who doesn't mind being a guinea pig.
I hadn't heard of this stuff before glee and would really appreciate any help or info from people who have used it before.
I know you were there Tony - just missed you by 5 minutes at GftK stand. Perhaps you know of the easijoint people in Chorley? Many thanks for any advice.