Transparent vitreous joints

Glass mosaic tiles

The choice of wall coverings, regardless to what are the spaces and the surfaces they are intended to, it is always the result of a compromise between the demands of the customer, tastes and evaluations of technical and effective evaluation, addressed by purely practical considerations functional, but also economic, the latter essential.

The success of a coating of any kind, goes from a correct application of the instructions of the manufacturer of the procedures and products to use, as well as, of course, to the use of qualified and experienced workers who lay the work, as they say, in a workmanlike way.

In the case of a particular type of coatings, in particular of glass mosaics, care in the installation must be particularly scrupulous because, although products in sheets of size greater than the individual tile, the coincidence of the visual joints is numerically much greater than in the case of normal tile. Equally important, however, is the kind of product that is used for the joints between the sheet and the sheet of true mosaic, because the decorative effect, in this case, it should be treated with special care.

Transparent and decorative joints

Considering how crucial and unique are the quality and the beauty of the multicolored reflections generated by the facetings of the glass surfaces of mosaic tiles, depending on the incidence of light on them, Kerakoll has designed and developed an innovative product that wants to exploit this feature by making way to enhance it and not mortify it: the product in question is called Kerakoll Fugalite Eco Invisible.

Kerakoll Fugalite Eco Invisible is proposed as the ideal solution to use a filler for joints respectful of the glass coating, being composed of a mixture of glass microbeads, great to fill joints from 0 to 3 mm but also to be used as an adhesive for laying resulting from recycled glass blended and distributed in a transparent resin. Microbeads, thanks to their spherical surface, allow excellent workability on surfaces in any orientation, both vertical and horizontal, ensuring in any condition the best features of diffusion of light refraction.

Fugalite Invisible Eco is used for the production of coatings for pools, fountains, as much as on radiating surfaces or subject to sudden changes in temperature or in contact with chemicals, is waterproof and dirt of various kinds and fights the formation of fungi and bacteria. To get peculiar and unusual decorative effects can be added with Escape-Glitter Gold or Silver, products that give a specific metallic finish to the decoration that you want.

The product is supplied in the form of two pre-measured components (A and B) which are mixed with the use of a whip and helical give a compound workable in the first 45 minutes of preparation. To make a proper application, you need a hard rubber spatula, and when you've done the preparation necessary to clean the surface as long as the product is still fresh, completing transactions with the passage of a sponge rinsed frequently in clean water.

To make the installation and grouting in glass mosaic, and also other types of coatings with special decorative value, Mapei offers Kerapoxy Design, suitable for all cases of grouting decorative indoor and outdoors, where the final effect both type semitransparent. Kerapoxy design can meet the needs of laying floor and wall tiles of various types of environments and surfaces, such as showers and toilets, surfaces of thermal baths and pools.

With excellent mechanical and chemical resistance, essential characteristics to ensure a long life to surfaces coated Kerapoxy Design allows to obtain surfaces with good hygiene, on which prevents the formation of mold and mildew, and this can be used to create surfaces in accordance with to the dictates of the HACCP system and the requirements of EC Regulation no. 852/2004, relating to food hygiene.

Kerapoxy Design is a bicomponents decorative stucco product with epoxy resins, silica sand and special components, characterized by the emission levels of volatile organic compounds with extremely low and high acid resistance and excellent cleanability. Easy and excellent workability during laying, to achieve decorative effects can be mixed with additives colored metallized MapeGlitter (22 colors available including silver and gold), a percentage of 10%.