TOUPRET UK LTD
CAPITAL BUSINESS CENTRE
UNIT 58
22 CARLTON ROAD
SOUTH CROYDON
GT LONDON CR2 0BS
Tel: 0208 916 2134
Fax: 0208 916 2136
Suppliers of: Toupret flexible Fillers flexible fillers concrete fillers fine grade fillers Surface Treatment masonry repair fillers Interior skim coat
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 : How to use fillers to improve and repair exteriors
It’s summertime once again, and so attention is turning to outside jobs for trade professionals up and down the country (when the weather allows, that is). Typically geared towards refreshing and restoring a property’s exterior, the work may be varied, but can be made simpler.
There are plenty of filler options available for a whole host of exterior tasks, including the repair of broken window ledges, re-shaping weathered or worn-out walls and even replacing cracked or damaged render – without needing to chop it off!
Repair to broken edge with Toupret Rock Solid Repair Filller
Before buying a product, it’s important to consider the type of job you’ll be working on, the condition of the surface and the intended finish you require. Take the example of the broken window ledge; if it’s a sandstone sill, weathering may have left it soft and crumbling, so you’d need to stabilise it first with a wall hardener product. It’s also quite typical for this type of surface to become damp, in which case you could use a filler specifically designed to adhere to damp. You’ll also want to think about how you want to work. Does it need to be painted tomorrow? What colour will you be painting it? How strong does it need to be?
Toupret recognises that each job requires the right product, and that’s why they offer the largest range of exterior fillers on the market.
For filling, they offer three powder products that can be applied to any depth and be used for repairing or reshaping broken corners, edges or decorative features. But each has distinct properties over the others. For example, Masonry Repair Filler is light in colour and can be applied to damp surfaces, making it an ideal product for retaining walls and sills which are generally more affected by damp. Rock Solid Repair Filler is white in colour and rich is resin, giving it the added strength required for more hard-wearing repairs, such as to the corner edges of buildings. Tough Multi-Filler has a good deal of strength whilst still being easy to sand; white in colour, it can also be used for localised skimming, thanks to its long working time of 40 minutes.
Some fillers are designed especially for skimming, for smoothing out wide areas of rough, textured or damaged masonry surfaces, as well as for repairing render. Toupret offers two options – Ready To Use Skimcoat Filler, which has an unlimited working time, as well as the powder Skimcoat Filler, with an open time of 6 hours, and ability to repair lime render.
TOP TIP: Lime render can be a tricky surface type. Opt for a powder filler with no Portland cement content, such as Toupret’s Tough Multi-Filler or Skimcoat Filler. The pH levels in these products are not aggressive towards the lime content, making them compatible for repairs. If you prefer to use a ready mixed filler, ensure that you first prime the surface.
You can check out the full range of Toupret exterior products on their website, where you can also use their comparison tool to find the right product for your work this season.
Toupret Bringing wood back to life with smart filling and finishing solutions
Wood is an essential material in construction and decoration and comes in many hard and soft species, used for a variety of different purposes, indoors and out. Much like other materials, it needs to be maintained and, from time to time, repaired. As a versatile and multifunctional material, it’s important to find the right solution to not just repair wood, but to restore it.
Wooden surfaces can be more susceptible to degradation as they are used for hard-wearing functions and in areas prone to erosion such as on balustrades, window frames, decking, fencing, skirting boards and doors. They are also open to the elements when used outside.
For some repairs, cutting out or replacing entire lengths of wood may be necessary, but for the more common holes, cracks and general wear and tear, a filler is the optimal solution. Wood fillers are commonplace but are not universal in their restorative properties. Some can be used for deep fills, others for quick repairs and there are many different features and benefits to look out for.
Repair carried out with Toupret Wood Repair Filler
To find the right filler to really bring life back to a wooden material, it’s first important to assess the project you’re working on. Will you be working inside or out? Is the surface condition hard, cohesive, clean, sound and dry? What kind of finish are you looking for, and what kind of job are you carrying out? Knowing the answers to these questions will allow you to identify the products you need.
Finding the right product for the job is what Toupret is all about. The brand recently launched an extended range of fillers for repairing and restoring wood which includes a white and off-white version of their popular Wood Repair Filler and Wood Filler products, already available in a natural wood colour, as well as a brand-new product designed to create the ultimate finish to wood surfaces: Fine Finish Wood Filler.
Toupret’s Wood Repair Filler is the company’s 21st Century take on a 2-part filler, with several advantages over the heritage 2-part system. It has a longer working time of around 30 minutes (great for perfecting tricky fill, repair and shaping jobs without rushing), is quick drying, can be ready to paint in 3 hours, doesn’t flash, is as durable as a 2-part and can take drilling & screwing, yet it’s very easy to sand. It has almost no odour, so is convenient for use on jobs indoors as well as outside. It can also be used for repairs without the need for formwork, and you can get your tools clean afterwards with just water, rather than using solvents.
Toupret’s Wood Filler is a ready to use product, perfect for small repair jobs that need to be completed quickly, without compromising on the finish, and the all-new Fine Finish Wood Filler is an extra fine smoothing filler that’s designed to improve the finish on primed wood surfaces, inside and out, lifting the aspect of final paintwork. The product is ideal for covering small defects, is flexible and fast drying.
Toupret’s range of products for wooden surfaces is completed with Wood Hardener, a deep penetrating water-based hardener for toughening rotten wood before filling or overcoating, as well as Glazing Putty, a long-lasting product, compatible with all paints and coatings that will not smear glazing and doesn’t stick to your hands.
