Tile, grouting

Other Types of Portland Cements. White Portland cementis standard Type I or III Pordand cement with raw materials selected and controUed to have negligible amounts of Hon and manganese oxides, which impart the gray color. The white Pordand cement is used in decorative and architectural appHcations like precast curtain waUs, terra22o surfaces, stucco, tile grout, and decorative concrete. 

These polymers are thermoplastic materials usually supplied as redispersible powders. They are widely used in proprietary prepackaged products such as tile grouts, self-leveling underlay and patching materials. 

To illustrate the problem for the product developer, one only has to enumerate the soils and surfaces. The soils can vary from simple dust and hair to dirt, hard water spots, and fingerprints to hardened grease, soap scum, and excrement. Although the usual household cleaning tasks are concentrated in only two rooms of the house, kitchen and bathroom, the number of different surfaces encountered are many. In the U.S., for example, there may be Formica , ceramic tiles, grout, lacquered wood, vinyl flooring, painted surfaces, brass, stainless steel, enamel, porcelain, aluminum, chrome, glass, marble, methyl methacrylate, and other types of plastics. All of these materials may occur within only two rooms of the same home ... 

Removes mildew stains and soap scum very effectively. Use on tile, grout, tub, tub walls, shower curtains, shower doors, garbage cans, and diaper pails. 

In addition to the use of dry acrylic powders in cement mortars, other typical uses for these modifiers are in cement toppings, ceramic tile adhesives, ceramic tile grouts, white masonry paints and cement block fillers. It is obvious that these compounds are more convenient to use with the simple addition of water, than those compounds requiring the addition of a latex emulsion. As improvements are made in these dry powders, there will be more emphasis on this type of compound. At the present time, the dry powder acrylics are more costly than the latex emulsions on a dry solids basis. 

Uses Modifier, adhesion promoter for concrete, tile grouts, mastics, paper coatings... 

Uses Defoamer for printing inks, adhesives/caulks/sealants, speckling Joint cement compds., concrete/tile/grout, drilling muds, powd. coatings, aq. resins and latex coatings, textile preps. 

A grout is a thin or soupy mortar used for filling joints between previously laid brick or tile. Chemically resistant machinery grouts contain larger aggregates than tile grout and have a different resin viscosity. 

Two new products can reportedly help property owners maintain and update the grout joints in their tile. Grout Maximizer is a premium latex-based additive for mixing with the company s Keracolor S Portland-cement-based grout to increase resistance to water- and oil-based stains. 

Uses Defoamer for powdered joint cements, protein binders, self-leveling flooring compds, tile grout, decorative plaster, masonry coatings, and patching compds., paper/paperboard... 

Uses Surfactant penetrating sealer, protectant, oil and water repellent, stain resist, aid for porous surfs., e g., stone, tile, grout, concrete, brick dispersant and emulsifier for halogenaled materials... 

Dehydian 1922 defoamer, tile grouts Troykyd D128 defoamer, tiles... 

The following paragraphs will describe the most important and most developed application areas for redispersible powders as they are ceramic tile adhesives/ tile grouts, thermal insulation systems (E.I.F.S.), self-leveling underlayments, patch and repair mortars, as well as water proof membranes (sealant slurries). 

The fields of ceramic tile mortars and tile grouts are certainly the most developed for redispersible powders in cementitious appHcations. The use of redispersible powder improves adhesion bond strength to aU types of substrates, the deformabili-ty (flexibility), the cohesive and flexural strength, the open time the wetting capability as well as the workability within dry mix mortars. 

There is also a draft of Tile grout mortars for tiles, definitions and requirements ... 

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