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Underlayment Guide

This guide lists the companies selling underlayment products, including their contact information, and lists of what each company has to offer.

Custom Building Products

**Address:** 7711 Center Ave, Ste 500, Huntington Beach, CA 92647
**Company Contact:** Diane Stewart
**URL:** www.custombuildingproducts.com
**Phone:** 800-272-8786
**Fax:** 800-200-7765
**Underlayment Products:**
LevelQuik® RS (Rapid Setting) Self-Leveling Underlayment; EasyMat® Tile and Stone Underlayment; RedGard® Uncoupling Mat

Dependable, LLC

**Address:** PO Box 214354, Mayfield Heights, OH 44124
**Company Contact:** Alex Keene
**URL:** www.floorprep.com
**Email:** info@dependable.us
**Phone:** 440-333-1123
**Fax:** 440-333-3781
**Underlayment Products:**
KeedeRoll 100 is an entangled net uncoupling mat designed to keep tiles isolated and prevent cracking. Packaged in 60 and 200 square foot rolls.
KeedeRoll 300 a waterproof uncoupling mat designed to keep tiles isolated and prevent cracking. Packaged in 60 and 200 square foot rolls.
KeedeRoll MT a fast, durable and cost effective solution to protect tile and reduce unwanted noise in one roll. Packaged in 200 square foot rolls.

Johns Manville

**Address:** 10100 W. Ute Ave. Littleton, CO 80128
**URL:** www.JM.com/GoBoard
**Email:** jeffrey.newcomer@jm.com
**Company Contact:** Jeff Newcomer
**Phone:** 303-978-2906
**Underlayment Products:**
GoBoard® is the innovative tile backer board by Johns Manville that is ultra-lightweight, waterproof, durable, easy to cut and install! Shower installations are fast because waterproofing is built-in, which eliminates extra steps since only board joints and fastener locations need to be sealed. GoBoard® is also up to 80% lighter than traditional boards. Engineered and tested for strength and durability, yet can be cut right where it’s installed using a utility knife.

Keene Building Products

**Address:** PO Box 241353, Mayfield Heights, OH 44124
**URL:** www.keenebuilding.com
**Email:** info@keenebuilding.com
**Company Contact:** Daniel Gibson
**Phone:** 440-605-1020
**Fax:** 440-605-1120
**Underlayment Products:**
Quiet Qurl’s impact and airborne sound control mats offer solutions in different thicknesses and with enhanced fabric options for your code-driven performance needs.
Quiet Qurl® systems are available from 0.125” to 0.75” with fabric options, including: Moisture Control (MC), Muffling Technology Enhancement (MT), Reinforced Fabric (RF) & Fast Track (FT). All products are designed for use with underlayments such as gypsum concrete and lightweight concrete.
QQ Step Soft™ is a recycled rubber flooring underlayment for sound isolation in ceiling/floor assemblies. The rubber material provides a resilient layer within the flooring assembly for reducing impact noise.

LATICRETE International Inc.

**Address:** 1 LATICRETE Park North, Bethany CT 06524
**URL:** www.laticrete.com
**Email:** mfoliveira@laticrete.com
**Company Contact:** Maria Oliveira
**Phone:** 203-393-0010 x295
**Fax:** 203-393-1684
**Underlayment Products:**
LATICRETE® NXT™ substrate preparation products provide world class performance for a variety of applications including self-leveling underlayments, patching and skim coating products
LATICRETE® 125 Sound & Crack Adhesive offers exceptional sound and anti-fracture protection in a single component formula. Installation is simple - just mix with water, spread, and set your tile or stone. Prevents cracks up to 1/8” and offers a Delta IIC 15.
LATICRETE® HYDRO BAN® is a thin waterproofing anti-fracture membrane that offers a rapid dry formula for a faster time to tile. No fabric required and flood test in only 2 hours!

MAPEI Corporation

**Address:** 1144 E. Newport Center Drive, Deerfield Beach, FL 33442
**URL:** www.mapei.com
**Email:** bpistulka@mapei.com
**Company Contact:** Brian Pistulka
**Phone:** 954-246-8759
**Fax:** 954-246-8801
**Underlayment Products:**
Mapeguard UM is a premium-performance, lightweight, waterproofing and vapor-pressure-equalizing underlayment membrane that provides crack suppression under ceramic tile and stone installations.
Mapeguard 2 is a next-generation, flexible, thin, 40-mil (1-mm) lightweight, load-bearing, fabric-reinforced “peel-and-stick” crack-isolation membrane that also has sound-reduction properties.
Mapesonic 2 is a patent-pending, next-generation, flexible, 76-mil thin, lightweight, load-bearing, fabric-reinforced “peel-and-stick” sound-reduction and crack-isolation membrane.

Maxxon Corporation

**Address:** PO Box 253, Hamel, MN 55340
**URL:** www.maxxon.com
**Email:** info@maxxon.com
**Phone:** 800-356-7887
**Underlayment Products:**
Level-Right® Ideal for new construction or renovation, Level-Right Self-Leveling underlayments install from 0”-3” and can be poured over a variety of substrates – often without shotblasting or scarifying. Gyp-Crete 2000/3.2K® From Single to MultiFamily, light Commercial to Renovations, you can count on Gyp-Crete 2000/3.2K to deliver compressive strengths between 2000 and 3200 psi and be ready for floor goods in 2-4 hours!
Therma-Floor® Therma-Floor is a gypsum underlayment specifically designed as a thermal heat mass for radiant floor heating systems.

MerKrete

Address: 4125 E. La Palma Ave., Suite #250, Anaheim, CA 92807
URL: www.merkrete.com
Email: info.us@merkrete.com
Company Contact: Tim MacDonald, Vice President
Phone: 866-516-0061
Underlayment Products:
UNDERLAY C Provides an acceptable surface for floor coverings and can be used to repair concrete surfaces.
Ideal for achieving a slope base foundation for drainage.
UNDERLAY RS A fast-setting troweled polymer-modified underlayment. Ideal for achieving a slope base foundation.
UNDERLAY SLU A Portland cement based pourable, pumpable and free-flowing underlayment for rapid leveling of interior substrates. Specifically formulated to smooth out substrates with excellent durability.

Progress Profiles America, Inc.

**Address:** 4 Middlebury Blvd., Unit 14, Randolph, NJ 07869
**URL:** www.progressprofiles.com
**Email:** ppa@progressprofiles.com
**Company Contact**: Domenico Borrelli (VP and CEO)
**Phone:** 973-587-2650
**Fax:** 973-584-2657
**Underlayment Products:**
PRODESO® HEAT SYSTEM by Progress Profiles combines the benefit of an underlayment membrane with the comfort and convenience of electrical floor heating that can be installed over the entire subfloor as an uncoupling, crack isolating and waterproofing membrane. The Heating Cable is then installed in the areas where heat is required. Once the Heat Cable is installed you can begin tiling immediately, no waiting is necessary.
Proleveling System is a revolutionary and innovative leveling system when laying medium and large materials with a thickness between 3 and 40 mm - 1/8” and 1-9/16”. The patented system is made of Leveler and Universal Pommel. The leveling base available in different grout joint size ( 1/16”- 3/32”- 1/8”- 3/16” size) with a threaded stem attached perpendicularly to the base that allows for easy adjustment with turns of the cap during installation. 3 shape are also available T Crosses and Linear.
PROSUPPORT System is a pedestal support system for indoor and outdoor raised floors. PROSUPPORT System height is fully adjustable from a minimum of 1 3/8” to a maximum of
19 11/16”.

Q.E.P. Co., Inc

**Address:** 1001 Broken Sound Parkway, Boca Raton FL 33487

**URL:** http://x-tremeqep.com

**Company Contact:** Jamie Clingan

**Email:** jclingan@qep.com

**Phone:** (561) 994-5550

**Fax:** (561) 241-2830

**Underlayment Products:**
X-Treme Board™ by QEP
Halex Accuply Premium Birch Underlayment
Natural Cork Underlayment
X-Treme Board™ by QEP is an environmentally friendly upgrade from the cement backer board, exceeding international building standards with
a zero fire rating and containing no silica dust.
Halex Accuply Premium Birch Underlayment is made from hard, relatively knot-free Baltic Birch available in 6mm or 9mm thick and 4’x8’, 4’x5’ or 4’x4’ length sheets.
QEP Natural Cork Underlayment acts as a crack isolation membrane, to be used under ceramic tile, stone and marble flooring reducing thermal and sound transmission.

Schlüter-Systems

**Address:** 194 Pleasant Ridge Rd., Plattsburgh, NY 12901
**URL:** www.schluter.com
**Email:** info@schluter.com
**Phone:** (800) 472-4588
**Fax:** (800) 477-9783
**Company Contact:** Customer Service
**Underlayment Product:**
Schluter-DITRA Designed specifically for ceramic and stone tile installations, Schluter-DITRA serves as an uncoupling layer, waterproofing membrane, and vapor management layer that accommodates moisture from beneath the tile covering.
Schluter-DITRA-HEAT provides both warmer floors and uncoupling in a single layer with no need for self-levelers. Wires can be placed exactly where they are needed.
Tile Membrane with Dual Benefits Schluter-DITRA-HEAT-DUO is an uncoupling and waterproofing membrane with an integrated bonding fleece that provides sound control. Optionally, the system can be customized with floor heating cables to warm the tile floor.

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Custom Building Products

Dependable, LLC

Johns Manville

Keene Building Products

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MAPEI Corporation

Maxxon Corporation

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MerKrete

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Progress Profiles America, Inc.

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