Long bucket life for powder adhesive

Wonderfrau · May 19, 2020

Would like recommendations for 300 x 600 (x10mm) porcelain tiles, on wall inside a walk-in shower enclosure, tiling directly onto tile backer board.
DIY tiler with limited experience. I think I need a powder adhesive for this size tile, but it needs a long bucket life - had a mare using penny tile Mosaics on the floor, with adhesive skinning before I was ready - even though I only did small sections. What a botched job that was!

How long can I expect a bucket of adhesive to last? Longer than 25 mins would be good :/

Boggs · May 19, 2020

Any standard setting adhesive, I always use Tilemaster Standard Setaflex.
Pot life is around 3 hours.

Albert · May 19, 2020

Mapei p9

Dumbo · May 19, 2020

Isomat ak20 .
I mixed some up on a job last year . Then drive 20 miles to use it

hmtiling · May 19, 2020

ISOMAT for me too if you want a long pot life

LM · May 19, 2020

I haven’t used anything better than Isomat!

Wonderfrau · May 20, 2020

Thanks guys - ordered me some Isomat AK20

. Wish me luck!

LM · May 20, 2020

Wonderfrau said:
Thanks guys - ordered me some Isomat AK20 . Wish me luck!

You won’t be disappointed. Make sure and let it slake for about ten minutes.

hmtiling · May 20, 2020

Good luck 👍

Wonderfrau · Sep 10, 2020

Thanks for your help guys. The Is Omar was perfect - long bucket life and proper sticky 😃

Pictures of the job attached. Happy with the end result as my errors are not too obvious and the tiles are well spaced. Took me forever and a lot of brainpower to plan it out.

Long bucket life for powder adhesive

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