Screed-Tech Uses Aggregate Industries’ Premium Highflow™ S Screed
Based on many years’ experience in the flooring industry we have selected the high-specification Aggregate Industries Highflow™ S screed due to its many advantages over standard sand-and-cement screeds. Due to their many advantages, liquid screeds are preferred in Europe, where they comprise 80% of new screeds laid.
Key advantages of Anhydrite Screed (Liquid Screed)
- Ready for light traffic after just 24 hours
- Highly resistant to impact
- No curling or lifting, highly stable
- Suitable for large areas without joints
- Shallower screed required compared with traditional methods
- Shorter drying time than conventional screeds
- Screed placing rate and output up to 10 x higher than standard screed
- No need for reinforcement below ceramic finishes
- Quick access for follow-on trades saves cost
- Suitable for use with water or electrical underfloor heating systems
- Transmits underfloor heat faster than conventional screeds
- Surface flatness to SR2 (5mm under a 3m straight edge) easily achieved
- Suitable for use in commercial and domestic buildings
- Similar compressive strength to conventional screed (supporting around 30 Nm)
- Similar flexural strength to conventional screed (supporting around 5 Nm)
- Liquid screed is less labour-intensive to lay than conventional screed
- Liquid screed laying does not require potentially damaging wheelbarrow- and foot-traffic
- Liquid screed production releases less carbon dioxide than conventional screed
- Anhydrite screed waste is recycled – conventional screed waste is unusable and goes to landfill
Highflow™ S Screed Technical Information
This screed has many advantages over standard floor screeds, with faster application speed, drying speed and increased placement accuracy.
It is highly impact-resistant, and easily complies with requirements for category A floors.
The product is based on alpha hemihydrate or anhydrite, and features several outstanding properties. Bardon Screed Highflow™ S binder conforms to EN ISO 14021.
Highflow™ S is ideal for installation with underfloor heating systems. The screed floor can be finished using all types of plastic, vinyl, textile, laminate, parquet, ceramic and other tile coverings. The product is not suitable for use without a final surface covering, nor in an area which is continuously wet such as showers, external floors or swimming pool surrounds.
Bardon Screed Highflow™ S conforms with the regulatory specifications of European standard BS EN 13813:2002 Screed Material and Floor Screeds, and with relevant sections of the Code of Practice for Floor Screeds BS 8204. Bardon Screed Highflow™ S is manufactured under independently monitored third party quality assurance schemes in accordance with ISO 9001 and with factory environmental compliance to ISO 14001, as are all Aggregate Industries products.
