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    latex free adhesive and grouts.

    Hi all I've been to price a job and the customer has asked if i can use products that are latex free. My local shop has advised me that all the flex products contain latex. Any help or advice please. Thanks
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    Self levelling with two different latex products!

    I have to level a kitchen floor tomorrow which is about 20m2, one half of the floor has bitumen on it , which I will be using ardex arditex on, the other is just the normal level flex self levelling compound ! Thinking that the 2 products could react to each other I was planning to put an...
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    Mapei S2 Quick vs Keraquick & Latex

    Is there any real difference in these two adhesives other than the price? Do they have the same flexibility when set?
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    tiling over kitchen floor tiles - latex or not?

    Hi all, Wonder if anyone could give me a bit of guidance. I'm tiling over an existing kitchen floor, about 20% of the previous tiles were cracked and sounded hollow, so I've removed them and filled in with a sand/cement mixture. I intend leaving this to dry thoroughly (will 3-4 days be OK-...
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    Protilers - latex screeding a floor

    Evening all....just got back from screeding a 45m2 floor...... it was a really rough floor coated with a Silka DPM......... All the materials used were from Weber...........as per spec...... first off we used Weber PR360 primer.......... here is how it went: here is how it looked...
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    Ditra - 2 part keraquick latex

    Good Evening. Will be laying soon some ditra matting and will be using Kerraquick and the latex. Has anybody used this combination before? If so did it bond well with the fleece and how long before it had fully cured? Thanks. Kevin
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    Latex Based Adhesive Suggestion Please

    I have these Topps Stardust Red Stardust Red Xcm | Topps Tiles tiles to lay this week (well tomorrow if I can get there) which are a resin and quartz mix. The packet says use only a latex based adhesive. I tend to use only Mapei as I can get it easily but that limits me to a rapid adhesive. So...
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    Keraquick & Latex plus long setting time??

    Hello! Tiled 4mtrs quartz starlights today - 300 x 300 tile hq ones - on my bathroom floor. 22mm floorboards screwed to joists overboarded with aquapanel, glued and screwed... so far so good... Finished laying at 4.15, just checked and still hasnt set :helpsmilie: All mixed as Mapei...
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    Advice for self-levelling over old tile adhesive, using Wickes latex?

    Hello all, I'm helping a friend decorate her new place on a very tight time limit as she's been moved at short notice by the housing authority. The flooring in most of her new place is old florr tiling with a sticky black adhesive residue on it, we are thinking that the old tenant had some...
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    Latex Gloves

    Normally i use latex gloves for grouting and washing off but they tear easily, today my hands were freezing in and out of water what do you guys do in the winter to stop hands getting frozen
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    Is latex slc recommended over water based slc?

    Kitchen floor has 90 % of the bitumen taken up, there`s no loose stuff left and whats left is staying down. The floor is uneven and I will be applying sbr/cement slurry first. Should I use a latex slc or will a water based slc be ok. ? Thanks
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    latex gloves

    Anybody know of a good source to get decent latex gloves at a low price? :smilewinkgrin: i normally get myn from pharmacy.
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    Mixing Keraquick and Latex

    I am Tiling my Daughters bathroom in coming weeks and have been trying to gain more knowledge by reading advice given on this website. The floor is chipboard overlaid with ply and screwed every 200/300 mm. I have brought keraquick and latex to give more flexabillity on the wood. I know this...
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    keraquick + latex plus drying time

    Wonder if anyone has experience of long setting times recently or if I have a bad batch of keraquick... Fixed a layer of durabase ci with adhesive yesterday evening, to aid adhesion I placed 2 floor tiles at several places round the edges. When i removed tiles this morning adhesive still wet...
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    sika latex

    I have just laid sika latex over my electric underfloor heating mats, on the packet its says suitable for underfloor heating but on the back it says not to be laid directly over the wires, I have put this directly over the heating mat, any advice? i have been told by sika it may crack. advice please
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    Latex floor ?

    Recently I saw a floor , the client said it was a Latex floor, with wet UFH. Who ever laid it supplied some epoxy primer to use before tiling. Having never come across a latex floor I am assuming to treat it as an Anhydrite or Gyvlon screed ???? Mind you so much for these floor being flatter...
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    External 2 part Latex SLC

    Hi Everybody, I am having some extensive work done in my back garden and have now reached the final stages before laying porcelain tiles outside. My builder has asked to me to get in a 2 part Latex levelling compound to prepare the substrate for tiling. I am fortunate enough to have a family...
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    what latex?

    hi there new member on this site! just a quick one , i am a floorlayer but not really a ceramic tiler, and have a job that someone wants me to latex over devi ufh mats (concrete screed) does it matter what compound i use like say arditex ,fball or tremco??? any help appreciated.
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    How much Latex plus?

    Hi All, Have just under 8m2 of quartz tiles to lay and im going to use Keraquick with the Latex plus additive. I dont normally use Mapei products, so my question is how much Latex plus do you need per 20kg bag of Keraquick? As i side note, i notice that Mapei prices vary wildly. Best ive...
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    latex slc ufh and hardi

    reading through all the threads on slc as appossed to addy for ufh, advise needed, can i slc over the hardi without priming? can i slc over ply if fixed as reccommended,this stuck in my mind from years ago as a no no but i suppose products develop ive been told from the local supplier the weber...

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