A Mapei tile installation system has been used by J H Lidstone to complete an extensive project at the iconic St Moritz Hotel & Cowshed Spa in Cornwall. The installation, which featured a variety of N&C Nicobond mosaics and tiles, spanned the indoor pool area, hydro pool, sauna and steam room, experience showers and changing rooms. The Mapei specification included a waterproofing, preparation and installation system, featuring products from Mapei Zero Line - with CO2 offset in the entire lifecycle* - and EMICODE: EC1 Plus formulations. The project was completed for Luscombe Construction and the interior designed by 3idog.
Located in an enviable position on Cornwall’s north coast, near Rock and Polzeath, the St Moritz Hotel is an iconic landmark with a whitewashed tiered façade. Dating back to the 1930’s, the historic building combines rustic-luxe hotel rooms, large suites, coastal villas and apartments, along with the only Cowshed Spa outside of Soho House properties. The recent £2+ million investment by the hotel’s founder, Hugh Ridgway, has included a rebuild of the indoor swimming pool and the new wellness area, alongside ice fountains and sensory showers.
During preparation of the swimming pool, wellness areas, showers and changing rooms, Mapei Planitop Fast 330 quick-setting, fibre-reinforced cementitious levelling mortar was applied to surfaces, incorporating Topcem special fast drying hydraulic screed binder. Surfaces were then tanked with Mapelastic Zero flexible cementitious waterproofing mortar and Mapeband 120mm – an alkali-resistant rubber and felt tape for corners and adjacent walls – to create an impermeable waterproof barrier.
The tile installation was completed with three Mapei adhesives: Keraflex Maxi S1 deformable standard setting cementitious adhesive, Keraquick XL Fibrelite fibre reinforced cement based rapid setting adhesive and Keraquick S1 Zero* quick-setting adhesive. Tiles were then grouted with Ultracolor Plus anti-efflorescence, quick-setting and drying polymer-modified grout, also from the Zero Line*, and within the pools and showers with Kerapoxy Easy design – a decorative, acid-resistant epoxy grout. The grouts, adhesives and Planitop also feature EMICODE: EC1 Plus formulations, with very low VOC’s.
The N&C Nicobond tile specification included a range of mosaics - including Bali Stone, Textura Copper, Snow & Ice St Moritz and Seychelles Silver Grey mosaics - Del Conca floor tiles, Synchro Grey and Obi tiles, Conca Preformed 100mm skirtings and pool edge tiles.
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