priming

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    Priming

    Evening all, I hope you can help? I have taken up an unsuitable floor and re laid using tongue and groove 22 mm plywood, glued joints and glued and screwed to the joists. I want to overlay with 6 mm Hardibacker A question if I may? Is it advisable to prime the plywood first and if so with...
  2. R

    Priming - your views

    Good evening all. I thought I'd just start this thread to see what the more experience tiles on this forums thoughts are in relation to priming various substrates, ie which primer you find best, how many times you prime the different substrates prior to tiling etc. many thanks
  3. S

    Ultraplan Renovation screed - priming and layering

    Hi, The floor I'm working on is in a bad state, in some parts needs 50mm of screed, so I've put down one layer of ultraplan to bring it up a bit (since its max depth is 30mm and at the time I did not have enough to complete the job) and have left it for 1 week. This was over an old pitted...
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    Ply - Priming Back

    I'm replacing the floor in my bathroom with 18mm ply and then over boarding with 6mm HBB. I seem to remember that it's advised to prime the back and edges of ply before it's screwed down. Is it necessary? I'd don't really understand what this would be achieving.
  5. J

    priming plasterboard?

    hello all, just doing a method statement, and while attaching data sheets on addys' etc, i noticed this on the weber eco plus data sheet; Wallboards: fibre/cement, plasterboard, plywood Ensure boards are rigidly supported, clean, dry and free from dust. Plasterboard should be thoroughly primed...
  6. D

    Priming and tanking

    Hi have pro warm boards fitted to new shower room walls and floor. Am I right in saying I need to acrylic prime everything? I have some plasterboard also? I have some nicobond primer left over and think can use this? What dilution rate? Have some tanking paint left from a wetroom I did so was...
  7. J

    Priming Anhydrite Screed

    Anhydrite screed on kitchen floor with UFH. There were some hairline cracks which were bonded with Flowcrete PHS. Floor is otherwise sound and dry and has been sanded. Plan is to use porcelain tiles on Ditra mat. May also have to apply some levelling compound but only to small areas...
  8. D

    Cementone SBR dilution ratio for priming Plaster skim and Plasterboard

    Hi, I am tiling a bathroom and having removed the old tiles some walls are Plaster skim and some are bare plasterboard. I have Cementone SBR which i have read is good for priming but i am not sure what ratio to dilute it with water to then prime the walls. I will be using Mapai Keraquick s1...
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    Priming time.

    Hi all.loving the forum.very informative.was wondering which is the best primer to use before waterproofing on Hardi board.using granfix wetroom system so was going to just stick to the granfix acrylic.any advice appreciated.much love
  10. aflemi

    Priming floor for tile over tile

    Tiling over 30-40 year old ceramic tiles stuck hard to solid floor bed. Was planning to roughen, clean with sugarsoap, prime with sbr then tile over. No ufh. Tile Giant salesman recommended just cleaning then use Mapei ecoprim, excellent adhesive properties for this job. Sounds good to me...
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    tanked without priming

    Dear experts I have someone fitting my small wet room in my flat. I have a reasonable understanding of building though. having had a 6 month building absolute nightmare to get to to this point, I felt I was finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel as the wet room was tanked with...
  12. M

    Forgot priming plaster wall with SBR Help please quickly!

    Hi tilers! I forgot using SBR on the plaster wall before I tiled on it.:oops: Is it a very bad thing?? What could happen? The adhesive has not yet completely set so if it is very bad i should get it off the wall now. If someone is out there at the moment, please tell me what to do! It is a...
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    priming wall prior to tilling

    can any one advise on what primer to use before tilling a wall prior to using tubbed adhesive .the wall is a combi of old plaster and sand and cement walls.the area for the shower has been done out in a waterproof tanking .on this area i was going to use a flexible powdered cement adhesive the...
  14. T

    Kitchen splashback preperation, priming and adhesive advice required.

    Hi All, I will shortly be tiling a splash back around the perimeter of my kitchen using 50mm x 400mm ceramic tiles (8mm thick) upto a height of 200mm from the worktop. The walls are plaster skim over render in good condition but with a very slight dip over a short distance and are painted with...
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    Priming ?

    I need a bit of advice about priming I've got some durabase ci+ and it's going down on sand/cement with in screed ufh It's now been down for a couple of months so is dry I've purchased some bal flexi and was wondering if it need priming first ? I've got some apd for the plastered walls...
  16. L

    whats best to use when priming surfaces ?

    Hi Just going back to tiling on a part time basis after having been away from it for a while. Can anyone tell me what the best product is to use priming/bonding surfaces prior to tiling. I am about to start tiling some outside steps. The have just been screeded. Do i need to prime this...
  17. N

    1st post advice about priming wall

    Hi guys/girls, First off i'd like to say what a great forum for getting hints and tips from. I've spent the last week reading post after post after post getting some tips to start my first tiling project (re doing my bathroom) and i'm glad i did as i thought i could tile over the emulsion :mad2...
  18. B

    PVA priming prior to latexing????

    Hi, Any views on priming screed with PVA prior to latexing. Thanks.
  19. S

    Question about priming

    replacing tiles, took off old tiles. the wall is plasterboard. its down to a smooth layer of brown paper backer (the top painted layer came off), which I've sanded any extra ripped layers down to flat. Should I just prime over this brown paper layer with BAL apd and then fix adhesive. The...
  20. R

    priming ply

    had a builder in to day been to tops they told him you should not prime ply showed him a there spec sheet i my self have always primed ply so as he never had a failer nor has he asked him to bring me a copy .anybody seen one

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