adhesive

  1. Dan

    UK Best Tile Adhesive Poll for 2024

    Which Tile Adhesive and grout brand did you use the most in the last 12 months? And also, reply to the thread with where you source the adhesive please? I realise that sometimes your first choice adhesive brand may not be locally available or your grout brand is different to your adhesive...
  2. Dan

    Which truly is the Number 1 Best Tile Adhesive Brand?

    Since 2007 Tilers Forums started an annual best tile adhesive Poll and sent it out to the world to vote on, we then saved and shared the results each year. Except for a few years here and there more recently it did manage to pull off another poll each year, each time asking again; Best tile...
  3. K

    How much adhesive needs removing between tiles & covering a chip

    Hi, Looking for advice mainly on how much adhesive I should remove from between the tiles in a shower before grouting. I stupidly didn't remove a lot of it before it thoroughly dried, and while there is room to put grout in the gaps between tiles over the adhesive (in other words, the adhesive...
  4. S

    UK Flex or non-flex adhesive for sticking backer boards to masonry wall?

    Just wondered what would be best? The original tiles had a few hairline cracks from the house settling. I’m planning to use flexible to stick tiles to the backer board.
  5. S

    Beginner - how much pressure to apply to tiles when pressing in to adhesive on wall?

    Most tutorials suggest 'pushing firmly'. How do you know how firmly, and how can you ensure that each tile is 'equally' pushed into adhesive, ensuring it's level?
  6. S

    UK Marmox multi boards and adhesive?

    I'm going to be installing Marmox multi boards, on two (internal walls) I'll use 4mm, just so I have a nice flat surface to tile with (the surface underneath the plaster is a bit rough and not plumb. The 4mm need to be 'stuck' with cement based adhesive. On the external two walls I'll use 20mm...
  7. S

    UK Ready mixed adhesive with 60x30 tiles - will it set?

    Is the issue with ready mixed adhesive seemingly only recommended for 30x30 tiles max that it will not set at all giving required adhesion, or is it that it will take a longer (than the usual 24 hour) setting time?
  8. Dan

    Preparation Tile Adhesive Brands you lot use, ready for a new poll in a couple of weeks.

    Let us know which brand of tiles adhesive you use. And the price per bag trade if possible. Let's see if there's is a disparity across the country.
  9. C

    UK Tile backing board adhesive and application

    I'm having a nightmare trying to establish product info from distributors. For example, Jackoboard: Installation instructions say put the adhesive on the wall, their video tells you to put it on the back of the board. There are countless examples like this from other manufactures. Abacus...
  10. C

    UK SC Render and levelling with Cement-based Adhesive

    I have removed the finish on two full walls leaving a sand / cement render. I now plan to fix the tiles with a cement-based adhesive on these two walls. On a third wall I will only be tiling two rows up from the bath. Do I level the SC render with the adhesive, let it set and then tile on top...
  11. W

    Dot and dabbing adhesive for foam core backerboad

    Hi all what adhesive would you recommend for dot and dabbing foam cored backer board onto thermal blocks before mechanically fixing through dabs. Cheers
  12. C

    natural tiles adhesive blooming through

    HI Can anyone help me with some tile blooming that has happened , laid a floor on durabase decoupling with white regular set tile cement and some blooming as appeared on the surface
  13. Dan

    Rocatex Tile Adhesive - Is this any good?

    Just seen Rocatex on uHeat.co.uk and thought hmmm that's a new one on me. Anybody used it yet? ROCATEX C2FT S1 RAPID FLEX GREY ADHESIVE - 20KG Grey rapid set flexible adhesive for natural stone and tiles. Ceramic / Porcelain / Mosaics Natural stone / Flagstones Screeds / Concrete / Timber...
  14. D

    Adhesive for heavy cement encaustic tiles

    Hi, I need an adhesive suitable for 20x20cm cement encaustic tiles on unskimmed plasterboard please, I found this mapei ultraflex lft recommended in several places but can’t source in uk, what is widely available that is like it ? Thanks
  15. L

    Ceramic Wall Tile Failure - How?

    Looking for some technical advice on these tiles please. Our installers fitted this CaPietra Ceramic tile in Oct 22. CCL Wetroom floor, tanked plasterboard to walls. We believe they used a ready-mix adhesive such as BAL White Star as it looks too white from installation photos to be...
  16. R

    Advise on Ardex SLC and adhesive please

    Moved this as I incorrectly posted in the Pro forum! Hi all, Finally getting to lay the tiles in our renovated kitchen tomorrow, its been slow going but the end is in sight! Tiles are 200x200x9 porcelain Floor will be levelled with Ardex NA. Thinking A77 for adhesive and wanted to get you guys...
  17. M

    Can you help solve conflicting advice re adhesive depth?

    I've got an AKW Tuff form shower tray with a waste that is 10mm above the tray when fully screwed in. The Tiler laid my 5mm hex mosaic tiles on a 2mm bed, so obvs wasn't going to drain. I took them back up and spoke to AKW, who recommended I put down a 3mm bed adhesive, let it go off and then...
  18. C

    Split face tile on plaster render behind log burner adhesive

    Hi all, I am planning to tile a full height panel of split face tiles to sit 3” behind a log burner on a plaster render on blockwork wall. I’m planning to score and scrape the paint off the plaster and then use Vitcas heat resistant tile adhesive. Tiles are about 23kg/sqm - planning to sit...
  19. A

    Can I tile directly over this old adhesive (photos included)

    Hi all, I removed some old tiles from the shower and wanted to know if it's possible to tile directly over this old adhesive. I removed some of it but it is a lot of work. I'm also planning not to tile the entire area that was tiled before but rather plaster and paint over it. So for anyone...
  20. J

    Kerdi Membrane Adhesive

    Hi What is the best adhesive to use for applying Kerdi Waterproof Membrane to jackoboard and plasterboard.Is Weber Rapidset suitable?

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