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BAL APD Primer 2.5L
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BAL Prime APD – Rapid-Drying Acrylic Primer for Tile Preparation

Prepare your surfaces for a flawless tile installation with BAL Prime APD, a high-performance acrylic primer designed for both wall and floor backgrounds. Ideal for use before fixing ceramics, mosaics, and natural stone tiles, this versatile primer enhances adhesion, stabilizes surfaces, and improves overall durability.

Key Benefits:

  • Strengthens & Stabilizes – Reinforces dusty and friable surfaces, reducing porosity for a solid base.
  • Versatile Application – Suitable for dry and wet environments, both indoors and outdoors.
  • Fast Drying – Ready for tiling with a suitable adhesive in just 15-30 minutes.
  • Enhanced Adhesion – Prevents air bubbles and extends the working time of tile adhesives.
  • Flexible Use – Can be applied undiluted or diluted (1:1) depending on surface requirements.

Application Guide: 

  • Plaster walls and plasterboard (with BAL cementitious powder adhesive) 

  • Tongue and groove floorboards 

  • Anhydrite screed floors 

Use diluted (1:1 with clean water) on: 

  • Dusty/porous plaster walls (with BAL ready-mixed adhesive) 

  • Cement, sand screed, and concrete floors 

Coverage Per 2.5L Pack:

Application Coverage
Undiluted 12.5 - 25m²
Diluted 1:1 25 - 50m²

Upgrade your tiling preparation with BAL Prime APD—the reliable primer that ensures long-lasting and professional results.

Introducing BAL Prime APD, a rapid-drying acrylic primer designed for priming wall and floor backgrounds before the installation of ceramics, mosaics, and natural stone tiles. This versatile primer is suitable for both dry and wet interior and exterior environments. BAL Prime APD stabilizes dusty surfaces, reduces porosity, and provides surface strength to friable surfaces.

Here are some key features of BAL Prime APD:

  • Stabilizes dusty surfaces and reduces porosity of backgrounds.
  • Can be used undiluted on plaster walls, plasterboard, tongue and groove floorboards, and anhydrite screed floors.
  • Can be used diluted on dusty or porous plaster walls and cement floors.
  • Rapid-drying formula allows tiling with a suitable adhesive in 15-30 minutes.
  • Provides surface strength to friable surfaces.
  • Reduces porosity, preventing air bubbles and prolonging the flow time of levelling compounds.
  • Extends the open time of tile adhesives.

Specifications

Use For
  • Preparing floor and wall backgrounds before fixing ceramic, mosaic, and natural stone tiles.
  • Dry/wet - interior/exterior.
Use undiluted on
  • Plaster walls/plasterboard when using a BAL cementitious powder adhesive.
  • Tongue and groove floorboards.
  • Anhydrite screed floors.
May be tiled after 30 minutes
Use diluted 1:1 on
  • Dusty/porous plaster walls when using a BAL ready-mixed adhesive.
  • Cement: sand screed/concrete floors.
Advantages
  • Stabilizes dusty tiling substrates.
  • Reduces background porosity.

 

Typical Coverage (per pack) 

Size Undiluted Diluted 1:1 with clean water
2.5L 12.5 - 25m² 25 - 50m²

 

 

 

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