Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 9:14 pm
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.
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.