When Ace Kind Ltd was asked to refurbish and retile the shower and changing facilities at the prestigious Shifnal Golf Club, in Shropshire, they were expecting a fairly straightforward job. However, Adrian Holt, a director of the Staffordshire based building contractors, had no idea that the original plasterboard had started to disintegrate behind the tiles. “We only realised that there was a serious problem when we started work. Over time water had seeped through to the supporting plasterboard, which had started to decay. There was no way we would have been able to mount new tiles on the original plasterboard, even if we had wanted to,” said Adrian. When Ace Kind Ltd highlighted the problem to the Golf Club management they gave them the go ahead to replace the plasterboard, but rather than repeat the mistakes of the past Adrian proposed the use of James Hardie’s HardieBacker™ cement board. “A lot of our business comes through word of mouth and we would hate to be associated with a shoddy job, particularly given the golf club’s influential clientele. That is why we proposed replacing the decayed plasterboard with HardieBacker™ cement board as we knew that, unlike plasterboard, it has been specifically designed for tiling in wet areas.” Adrian, recalls, “I first saw HardieBacker™ cement board on display in Carvers Builder’s Merchants in Wolverhampton several years ago. One thing I noticed was that they had a glass display that featured a small sample of HardieBacker™ cement board submerged in water. Whenever I visited the store I used to check out the display and in all that time the HardieBacker™ cement board sample never showed any signs of breaking down. That really brought it home to me that the product was perfect for tiling in wet areas.” Ace Kind Ltd, Staffordshire HardieBacker™ cement board scores a hole in one at Shifnal Golf Club

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