TOUPRET UK LTD
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Toupret is a specialist manufacturer of professional fillers with over 80 years’ experience of making products for the Decorating and Building markets around the world. They have been established in the UK since 2005.
Toupret has a leadership position in the UK market for high performance fillers aimed at Professional Painters and Decorators and are growing quickly in the Building and Construction sector. Toupret is a very successful and growing brand across the UK.
Toupret offers a complete range of high-quality, performance filler products for background preparation in all types of renovation and refurbishment work. It’s membership of the BCF (British Coatings Federation) and The PDA (Painting & Decorating Association) ensures that Toupret is as the centre of training and product developments in the UK.
Toupret has a range of products designed for a variety of uses, including interior surfaces, exterior surfaces, wood surfaces, problem surfaces (including damp and flexible surfaces), spray filling, and jointing and skimming.
Toupret fillers are known for giving better results first time. Under normal conditions, substrates do not need to be primed before application and they do not flash or grin.
Toupret’s main range includes:
Toupret’s innovative new Joint, Skim & Fill system of products for the plasterboard jointing and skim-filling market. The range offers excellent finish quality and performance that saves time on the job and includes:
- Quick Dry products , ready for overpainting in three hours
- Jointing products that are CE approved and conform to BS EN 13963 for jointing materials for plasterboard
- Patch & Repair range for preparation work
A selection of powder and ready to use fillers. Toupret’s powder fillers are recognised for needing only one coat, under normal conditions, being easy to sand, not flashing or grinning, even without spot priming.
- Quick Dry Filler: for a rapid solution that can be overpainted in 3 hours
- Interior Filler: a premium quality filling, jointing and skimming filler. It has excellent adherence and coverage.
- Ready To Use Filler: A ready-mixed filler that’s easy to apply and sand, with no need to spot prime
- Renovation Skimcoat: A ready-to-use skimming filler that’s easy to sand, adheres to paintwork and requires no PVA
A wide range of exterior Fillers for all applications
- Masonry Repair Filler can be used to fill and repair without the need for formwork. It can also be used on damp substrates
- Rock Solid Repair Filler dries to a rock-hard finish on all exterior substrates
- Quick Fill is an exterior, ready-to-use, lightweight filler that needs just one coat and is ready to paint in one hour.
- A wide range of wood repair products from glazing putty to hardeners and fillers
- Available in a variety of sizes, as well as in ready mixed and plaster form, for easy use
- Anti-damp treatments for damp or wet substrates
- Flexible fillers for movement problems
- Penetrating hardener for soft substrates
- Ready to use, and easy to sand, interior spray fillers
- Self-smoothing, and ideal for large contracts (e.g. new builds)
- Can be applied with spray equipment or manually
Further technical information is available on the Toupret website or via the BPi download Library.
Toupret UK - Choose your perfect interior filler
Interior renovation can involve a number of jobs, and to get the best results it’s vital you pick the best fillers for each kind of work you’re faced with. But how do you assess what you need?
It all starts with an evaluation of your site. What kind of surfaces will you be working with? Holes, gaps and cracks all need filling, but what kind of finish are you looking to achieve? Are you working with a bare surface or a painted one? Is it made of plaster? Concrete? Is it textured? Assessing this will allow you to better select the products you need, whether it’s for filling, skimming, fine finishing or a combination of different work. Just remember that a filler designed for a specific purpose will always give you the best results. All-purpose fillers are popular amongst DIYers, but we all know the saying about a jack of all trades…
Equally important is how you choose to work. Having the right filler for the right job doesn’t mean you have a lack of choice. Perhaps you favour the convenience of a ready to use filler or prefer the satisfaction and added benefits of mixing it yourself. If time is of the essence, you might be keen to use a fast-drying filler.
Ready to use fillers are appreciated for their convenience, though take longer to dry than powder fillers. Yet, specially formulated ready to use fillers for smoothing or fine finishing are often appreciated for their unlimited open time, meaning you’re not time-limited in your application. Powder fillers, meanwhile, typically have a working time of 30-40 minutes before they begin to harden, though they are capable of filling to any depth and do not shrink or slump.
Fast drying fillers can also be found in both powder and ready to use form. Toupret’s Quick Dry Filler, for example is a powder filler that’s ready to paint in 3 hours, whilst Quick Fill is a lightweight, ready mixed filler that can be painted in as little as 30 minutes. Once again, however, it’s all down to your job needs as well as your preference.
As the trend in the use of plasterboard in developments and renovation continues to grow, options for taping, jointing and finishing your plasterboard are also increasing to cater to every jobsite demand. Manual options include fillers certified for jointing plasterboard in both powder and ready to use form, quick drying solutions to help you meet that looming completion date, or ready mixed compounds designed with unlimited working times for covering larger areas while minimising waste and mixing time.
Time, money and effort savings reach a new level with a filler that can be machine applied. Airless spray plastering is a relatively new technology in the UK that uses a high-pressure machine, much like a paint sprayer, to force specially formulated filler (or ‘plaster’) onto a surface for use as a jointing, levelling or finishing compound. The system allows you to cover a far greater area faster than doing the work by hand, meaning you can finish the job quicker, economising on labour and cost.
Toupret offers an extensive range of interior fillers for filling and repairs, skimming, levelling and finishing, as well as plasterboard jointing and finishing solutions and fillers for use with airless machines.
Head on over to toupret.co.uk or the Toupret mobile app to try out their easy selection and comparison tools – compare up to 5 products that interest you and find the perfect one for your job.
Toupret UK: Plasterboard work: reliable solutions to achieve a fine finish, faster
As the use of plasterboard for interior lining becomes more and more popular in new build developments and large renovation sites, so does the process of taping and jointing for that smooth, ready-to-paint finish. And with all types of tradespeople involved in plasterboard work, from builders and drywall professionals to plumbers and electricians, finding versatile and reliable solutions for plasterboard finishing helps to ensure quality standards whilst still benefitting from time and cost saving benefits that plasterboarding provides.
There is a choice of accessories available for making the process of taping and jointing even faster, such as using an automatic taper to apply both joint filler and tape simultaneously. Or, where a paper tape is not specified, some cut down on time and effort further by using an adhesive scrim instead.
Whatever the method, having the right finishing product is also vital. Toupret’s Plasterboard Finishing Solutions take the company’s expertise and reputation for high quality and inject them into a range that’s been designed to build on the time and cost saving benefits of plasterboard work, without compromising on quality.
Toupret’s solutions include two powder-based products that act as both a joint filler and finishing filler, with a quick drying option that’s ready to paint in 3 hours. There’s also a ready to use filler for use as a joint filler or low-build finishing plaster, so you can opt for whatever suits your job.
If you do prefer to use an adhesive scrim on plasterboard joints, then Toupret’s finishing solutions also mean you can skim finish the entire surface in as little as one coat. Their website and app even include a skimming quantity calculator to help you work out exactly how much product you need for the surface to be covered.
Jointing and finishing is not necessarily the end of the job, however. Touch-ups and repairs are inevitable (no matter how careful you are with your ladder!), and not forgetting the work needs of plumbers and electricians; installing back boxes, light switches and pipework which all result in cutting into and then patching up the plasterboard.
That’s why Toupret’s Plasterboard Finishing Solutions also include two fillers. Patch & Repair Filler comes in a ready to use form, as well as a quick drying powder version that’s ready to paint in 3 hours.