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Per Square Foot Continental US Only
This product comes in either yellow (as shown in photo) or pink-red. Mesh color may also vary. Both products are identical product that arrive in the U.S. through separate distribution channels and have identical TCNA ratings.
The product is 1 meter wide (3.3 ft or 39.5"). To calculate your SF needed, measure your needed length based on a 39.5" wide product that does not overlap. Multiply your total length in feet by 3.3 and round up. (e.g. 10 ft 6" length would be 10.5 x 3.3 = 34.65 = 35 SF ordered)
The New and Improved Crack-Isolation Underlayment
Now with Even Better Performance!
Replace the need for cement board. This durable, lightweight product is elastic, rot proof and resistant to aggressive substances. Durabase-CI Plus provides a decoupling layer while supporting tremendous loads.
The product is 39.5" wide. The total length you receive will relate to how many Square Feet (SF) you order.
Allows independent movement between the sub floor and the finished surface.
Unlike other products like Ditra, the Dural Durabase-CI Plus design utilizes round cavities to provide more strength and to help prevent the trowel from catching on the underlayment during installation. A unique open-mesh fabric adhered to top of Durabase-CI Plus provides even more secure bonding of the tile surface to this underlayment.
For natural stone floor coverings, use a double wood floor with minimum total thickness of 1-3/8"
Ideal for interior tile installations. Durabase-DD is recommended for outside or high-moisture installations.
FunctionCeramic and stone tiles are ideal surface products because they are durable, easy to maintain, and hygienic. Because of today's lightweight construction methods, installation of hard surface coverings can become particularly challenging. The solution is a multiple-functioning underlayment that protects the integrity of the tile assembly. Dural Durabase-CI Plus is a polyethylene membrane solution containing a pattern of circular cavities with an anchoring fleece webbing laminated to its underside. Unlike other products, Durabase CI PLUS also features an open mesh bonded to the top of the structure for improved tile bonding. The bottom fleece webbing allows secure bonding of Durabase-CI Plus to the sub floor using thin-set mortar. A tile surface is installed over Dural Durabase-CI Plus with thin-set mortar. The mortar forms bonded pillars within the circular cavities and the open mesh of the Durabase-CI Plus matting. Dural Durabase-CI Plus was designed specifically for ceramic tile and natural stone installations. The Durabase-CI Plus provides a comprehensive load support, an uncoupling layer, waterproofing membrane, and vapor management layer that accommodates moisture from beneath the tile covering. Durabase-CI Plus neutralizes stresses and isolates cracks. a) Uncoupling Tile has been successfully installed for thousands of years by incorporating a forgiving uncoupling shear-interface layer below the tile assembly. Dural Durabase-CI Plus provides this uncoupling to prevent stresses of any expanding, contracting or moving substrate from causing cracks or delamination of the top tile surface layer. b) Waterproofing The Dural Durabase-CI Plus material’s polyethylene composition helps prevent moisture from penetrating the substrate; many of today’s substrate materials are moisture sensitive. c) Vapor management The Dural Durabase-CI Plus construction provides air channels allowing moisture from the substrate to evaporate while neutralizing vapor pressure. Because of this feature, tiles may be installed onto foundations which are still wet (green,) usually eliminating the need for elaborate pretreatment and special adhesives. d) Support/load distribution Like cylindrical building columns that can support massive loads, the circular-column type mortar structures formed in the round cavities of the matting provide tremendous vertical strength. Loads on the tile surface are supported via these columns of mortar over the substrate. The Durabase-CI Plus material's flexibility combined with the formed cylindrical columns of mortar provide the needed load strength AND the decoupling capability to prevent cracking of the tile surface layer. Extensive lab and installation verifies the ability of Dural Durabase-CI Plus to support extreme loads while maintaining the integrity of the tile surface layer. |