Plastering tools and accessories: precision and structural strength for flawless finishes

Machine application of mortars has revolutionised the timescales of the modern construction site, but it requires machines that are always in perfect working order. Sudden machine downtime causes costly delays and organisational disruption. For this reason, the technical range includes essential wear parts, ensuring optimum performance and continuity of work. Immediate availability of plastering machine accessories, such as rotors, stators, spray lances and specific hoses for pumping cementitious materials, allows the retailer to actively support contractors, avoiding interruptions to work and ensuring smooth, even application.

Professional application requires precise guides and structural reinforcement to cope with the natural settlement movements of buildings. Using a glass-fibre or metal plaster mesh is essential to absorb stresses, preventing shrinkage cracks or cracks caused by temperature changes, especially at junctions between different materials (e.g. brick and reinforced concrete). To support application, installing plaster profiles beforehand provides a template and reference guide for the straightedge, making the operator's work easier and ensuring perfect vertical and horizontal flatness across the whole wall.

Cement- and lime-based mortars are highly alkaline, a chemical factor that is very aggressive to many materials. Components embedded in the wall must retain their physical properties unchanged for decades. For this reason, items such as plaster corner beads, used to protect and define the external corners most vulnerable to impact, are made from hot-dip galvanised steel or corrosion-resistant aluminium alloys. Similarly, fibre reinforcement meshes are given an alkali-resistant coating. The careful quality selection guaranteed by FT SPA, operating according to the criteria of ISO 9001:2015, ensures the distributor is supplied with technically impeccable items.

Handling bulky materials, such as linear profiles up to three metres long or heavy rolls of mesh, is a complex logistics and storage challenge for any store. FT SPA supports its distributors with a first-class logistics service, ensuring fast deliveries to avoid critical stock-outs. In addition, the exclusive Progetto Rivendita 2.0 provides display modules developed specifically for the sector: safe vertical structures make it possible to organise and store long profiles while optimising floor space. This approach dramatically improves product visibility, streamlines self-service purchasing and enhances the retail area dedicated to finishes.