SEBC FEATURE: Stop cracked tiles with GatorMat®
Homebuilders save as much as $250,000 a year on proven underlayment system ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – The most cost-effective crack isolation system in the homebuilding industry has been on the market for nearly 15 years. Still you may not have heard of it. Manufactured by Propex Global, an establish leader in Geosynthetics, GatorMat®, is an underlayment system that protects tile against crack migration and has been serving homebuilders since 2004. That’s close to the time Marty Uptain, National Sales Manager for GatorMat, first became a dealer for the product. Uptain has served in sales and management roles for Florida homebuilding products since 1991. “I had been working for a tile company that was one of the first to start using and selling GatorMat,” he said. He was soon moving truckloads of it. Developed in Florida, GatorMat is used when ceramic tile, porcelain or stone is installed over concrete slabs. It protects floors from reflective cracking caused by cracks in the sl...