Adhesive Expert ?

[Triffid Sting]

Great forum.
I'm about to tile a newly skimmed bathroom with plywood floor. The walls will be large format ceramic (400mmx300mm) tiles with glass mosaics in the shower area. I have experienced help (dad) with the tiling although suspect his up to date knowledge of adhesives is somewhat lacking.
Having looked through the forums I reckon to do the job well I need a seperate adhesives for each area or tile. E.g
Glass tiles - specialist adhesive (Adesilex P10 ?)
Large format tiles - Cement based adhesive (Keraquick ?)
Floor tiles - Cement based flexible adhesive (Keraflex ?)
Any expert advice/recomendations with regards to tanking/priming/grouting/sealing gratefully received.
Before my research I'd have never guessed at the amount of choice and advice out there !

 

[MTiler]

Hi

If the mosaics are just going onto plain walls, you could use the Keraflex white on all the walls, and Keraquick on the floor so you only have to wait 2-3 hours to grout /walk on it rather than 24.
For the mosaics consider having a coloured grout to match them, alot of people just use white and with coloured mosaics the white grout can fragment the mosaics and it doesnt look as nice. Also white in a shower can discolour.
Mapei do a wide range of grout colours but if your not used to using thier Ultracolour Plus grout its fast setting so use it in sections. Ardex have their FS Flex range of grouts which are nice to use and dont go off so quick and also in a large range of colours, but depends on the size of the grout gap.
If the tiles are unglazed and your using a dark grout it'll be worth sealing the tiles before you grout so they dont stain, and make sure you cover the whole tile with the grout so you dont get any 'framing' round the grout gap.
Tanking is up to you but depends on what the shower walls are constructed of. If its of waterproof backer board you dont need to, but just tape the joints and skim the tape with ady. Any other board I would. Ive not used the Mapei kit but I can recommend Ardex as its one of the quicker ones. If the shower walls are boarded it'd be worth tanking the reverse side of the board (if possible) if theres any chance of water damage from behind, some people do this.

Hopefully thats of some help, and hasnt confused you even more.

cheers
missyT