Mmmm! must try that. Got a job coming up to put marble on my sisters bathroom wall. Not getting paid for it so maybe the idea opportunity to try a new technique.
I know it can seem like a waste of time messing with battons,
but you can mix your adhesive a little thinner (not too thin of course) when working with battons, safe in the knowledge your tiles arent going to slip.
The advantage being you can then slap the adhesive on faster and its less tiring on the arms.
I havent timed it but could work faster this way.
And if you can re-use your batton all the way around the room and on other jobs - not much cost really.
With this mouting foam tape i find I can bang it on - and if it aint straight I can
knock it off and have another go and its usually still tacky.
In fact I can knock it off the wall quickly and mount it on the next wall straight away without putting more tape on - to carry on around the room.
Probally not a good idea with heavy stuff - but standard ceramic stuff
works ok.
Maybe a glue gun would hold the weight of natural stone. Think how useful that would be holding up a heavy natural mosaic tile around a curving bath panel thats trying to slip!
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Oddly enough you rip it off and re-stick straight away with the same tape I find.
Very tacky stuff.
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thats true - although you can't always work from bottom up and be guaranteed to end on a straight line all the way along a wall with mosacis on a mesh, because you cant vary the gaps and gain space if need be because there all tied together.
Its a bugger.
