TOUPRET UK LTD
CAPITAL BUSINESS CENTRE
UNIT 58
22 CARLTON ROAD
SOUTH CROYDON
GT LONDON CR2 0BS
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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 adds three new exterior fillers to its range
Toupret now offers the widest range of exterior fillers on the market with the addition of three new exterior surfaces products: Skimcoat Filler, Ready To Use Skimcoat Filler and Tough Multi-Filler. The updated collection now consists of six products designed for filling, repairing, formwork, and skimming jobs.
Skimcoat Filler is a huge timesaver, designed to solve the age-old problem of repairing damaged and rough exterior render as it can be smoothed over cracked and rough render, avoiding the need to knock back and reapply the render.
And Ready To Use Skimcoat Filler is a ready-mixed formula making it even easier to use. What's more, it's suitable for machine spraying as well as manual applications, making it ideal for an array of different jobs.
The third new product, Tough Multi-Filler, is a multipurpose product that can be used for repairing and localised skimming as well as filling. Reinforced with fibres, the new filler has excellent adhesion and is super tough yet easy to sand.
Toupret UK - How to use a roller with skimming and finishing fillers
Quality is the key mark of the professional. It ensures a happy customer, repeat trade and new opportunities. But a good job takes time, and tradespeople are always looking for new ways of working to help cut down on labour, without compromising on quality. For example, as the trend toward using plasterboard in interior construction continues to increase, plasterboard tapers and jointers routinely opt to use automatic tapers and finishing boxes, to achieve that all important level 5 finish as efficiently as possible.
Likewise, painting and decorating was revolutionised with the introduction of the roller. And recently, this now-essential tool is being used to further cut time and effort, whilst still achieving a top-quality finish.
Smoothing and finishing fillers
The revolutionary new technique for the humble roller is its use as an applicator for skimming and finishing fillers. There are many types of these fillers out there, designed for a variety of jobs. Toupret offers Joint & Skim, for plasterboard jointing and finishing, as well as Renovation Skimcoat, which is used for smoothing out damaged or textured walls and ceilings. And there’s even an exterior solution in Ready To Use Skimcoat Filler, which levels out rough exterior surfaces, and can be used to patch up areas of damaged render up to 5mm, or used as an external skim.
How to apply with a roller
Traditionally, jobs that require these types of products are carried out with a trowel or blade. Recently though, rollers designed to apply filler have hit the market. Whilst they have been specifically created for this type of application, it’s worth mentioning that it is possible to carry out the job to a professional standard with either a short or medium pile paint roller.
Loading up is not done in quite the same way as paint. There needs to be a good amount of filler on the roller for it to be sufficiently applied. That means it really needs to be plunged into the product to get a good quantity onto the wall or ceiling. Once on the surface, however, it’s as simple as rolling on paint, even down to the traditional application technique; rolling up and down and slightly overlapping the previous pass with each subsequent step, using an ‘N’ or ‘W’ formation when applying. It will feel similar to applying a thick stipple coating. Once on, the product can be smoothed out, and the excess removed with a skimming blade.
Other innovations in decorating…
Rolling on isn’t the only time-saving new technique for applying skimming and finishing fillers. Airless spray plastering is another innovation that started with paint application and is continuing to make traction in the UK as an application for fillers as wall coverings – a truly revolutionary alternative to traditional plastering. It uses a machine that creates a high-pressure spray to apply specially formulated fillers for jointing, finishing and levelling uneven surfaces, and can perform the job in a fraction of the time. It’s sprayed on with a hose and gun, taking the strain off the shoulders, arms and knees. Check out toupret.co.uk for more information and the full range of Airless Spray Plasters.
