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PIF Construction Group and Sika were also tasked with transforming the building’s lobby spaces. <br />Proving the product <br />Potomkin insisted on testing the products in the environment they would be used. “Michael, being a lifetime user <br />of another product, said, ‘Well, let me test your stuff,’” explained Johnson. “When we went there, we did a bond <br />test over top of the Sika system. He wanted to test it the way his guys were going to set the tile and also how they <br />weren’t. He did one bond test where he didn’t backbutter and just dropped it down on the trowel marks. On the <br />other one, he backbuttered and installed it per TCNA guidelines like his team would do. Both performed very <br />well. The bond was so tenacious over that Sika deck coating that they had a really hard time chipping it up. Both <br />panels had to come up in little, tiny pieces. He was very, very happy with the result.” <br />In all, 2,400 bags of SikaTile®-450 LHT Secure Set bonded the porcelain panels to the deck and the wood-look <br />mosaic tiles to the planters located around the space. When it came to grouting, the environment presented <br />complications that had to be addressed through product innovation.