applying adhesive methods?

[Daveshadowman]

dot and dab is for board fixers not tilers if you can not spread an even bed the surface is not ready walk away

 

[Martino]

dot and dab is for board fixers not tilers if you can not spread an even bed the surface is not ready walk away

Why such hatred for a newbie! lol....i personally screed and blob my tiles...every job is different imo..with regards to 'you never get the cal back for a reason'....i have done work for a bbc presentor who lived in hull and moved down to london...they wanted me to go down and do there tiling there....that kinda REMOVED on that bonfire dont it lol!.

I would be more than happy for any of you to see my work and tell me why its bad?

I also have reccomendations from a leading business who deal with only top end clients.

:smilewinkgrin:

Have a great day. and stop the hatred lol!...

 

[NZ_Tiler]

Dot and dabb is a bad practise.
Its slower then spreading glue with a notch,
it may use more material,
and it will create hollow spots under the tile, which will inevitable cause tiles to break.

 

[Gazzer]

30 years of experience and not a single tile fault...cant be too bad!:lol:

Who has ?

 

[Mike Mike]

Did this great job last week. White marble and red grout. Just used an icing bag to put the grout in then wet a cloth and gave it a wipe to clean. Easy.

Didn't bother with silicone either. Just butted up the corners at the wall etc. nice solid mdf wall and a good 6mm chipboard floor.

I agree. On occasion I have used Colgate toothpaste (the one with Whitener) to dot and dab marble to walls and floors, to grout, seal and silicone them. Anyone who has ever tried to wash dried on toothpaste from the inside of a sink will tell you, that stuff sets as hard as any Mapei product. And, if you get a box from the Pound Shop, it works out at less than half price per m2!! :8:

 

[swanman]

I think Martino has a bee in his bonnet

Never dot and dab

Listen to the people on here they no what they are talking about

 

[Andrew]

When I first joined this site, I questioned whether mixing pro and amateur advise in the same place was a good idea! This thread has proved to me it is,as there is clear distinction between those who know their stuff and those who have no idea.
Seems some have given up on being educated and continue with there incorrect methods!

 

[nybor62]

firm im doing work recently replaced over 600 tiles in a store because of bad fixing methods, got another store in taunton to do, again because of poor prep and fixing method

keep it up you keeping me in work you fools

 

[bugs183]

I love the threads where people ask advise, then totally ignore it asking the same questions and not wanting to hear the correct way of doing the job!
Its not even about how much a job costs or how much effort. I've seen posts saving the person time, effort and money, but still want to do it their way, most amusing.
It is a credit to the lads here that are very patient and polite.

 

[AliGage]

My local tile supplier sells notched trowels for spreading my adhesive. I've don't ever recall ladles on sale in there.

 

[barrytiler]

did you use poligrip when serving an indentured apprenticeship?

 

[steveb]

I love the threads where people ask advise, then totally ignore it asking the same questions and not wanting to hear the correct way of doing the job!
Its not even about how much a job costs or how much effort. I've seen posts saving the person time, effort and money, but still want to do it their way, most amusing.
It is a credit to the lads here that are very patient and polite.

totally agree we get the same on the plumbers forum as well

 

[White Room]

Sometimes it's like:mad2::mad2:

 

[steveb]

Sometimes it's like:mad2::mad2:

exactly

 

[bugs183]

I'm going to pop a few photo's on a thread in a moment of a floor i did last week, i told he customer and the builder to get it covered.......

 

[Tile Shop]

Personallly i blob fix and also spead adhesive every job is different!...1 rule i always go by is..NEVER BLOB A FLOOR TILE!....

Why such hatred for a newbie! lol....i personally screed and blob my tiles...every job is different imo..with regards to 'you never get the cal back for a reason'....i have done work for a bbc presentor who lived in hull and moved down to london...they wanted me to go down and do there tiling there....that kinda REMOVED on that bonfire dont it lol!.

I would be more than happy for any of you to see my work and tell me why its bad?

I also have reccomendations from a leading business who deal with only top end clients.

:smilewinkgrin:

Have a great day. and stop the hatred lol!...

Before I start, I mean no offence so don't take any of this the wrong way please.

I spy a contradiction.... correct me if i'm wrong???
1st quote - never blob a floor tile.
2nd quote - screed and blob??? screed = floor term???

I'm sure no-one hates you. They just don't think you're real.

I'm not a tiler, but even I know there is no job that warrents dotting and dabbing. You say that you've been doing it for 30 years. I must admit that a few cases I have seen that have failed because of DAD, have been done younger inexperienced tilers, that have had "old-skool" teachers. You maybe had the same, you were taught wrong and the habit stuck.

If that is the case, please unlearn the habit.... Have you seen what can happen when a tile comes off the wall and lands in (not a typo) the foot of someone showering? Pretty grim. It even put a hole through the shower tray.

I'd happily come and see some of your work. But I ain't going anywhere near it without a hard-hat, toe-caps, and 5 weetabix in my belly. But I will bring a rubber mallet, a fat wallet, and put a bet on one well placed whack, bringing your theory crashing to the ground. My wallet will then leave even fatter!

Any of those jobs go wrong, YOU are liable whether you think it right or wrong.

 

[Tile Shop]

ummm.... spotted the date.... Who's the noob?

It was a related thread... I didn't know

 

[Dan]

Love a good thread resurrection me

 

[Tile Shop]

Glad I could be of assistance LOL

 

[Dan]

Don't worry about it. Drag as many as you want up. A good percentage end up current discussion and still apply to todays methods and products etc.

 

[Old Mod]

2nd quote - screed and blob??? screed = floor term???

Not sure where the terminology comes from for sure,
but I've heard a lot of fixers over the yrs say screed the floor, when they mean trowel adhesive.
It probably does come from the days of sand and cement fixing I'd imagine.

 

[Unused Account 1]

if the floor is that bad to dot and dab ,put the floor right ,or somewhere near ,dont loose quality

 

[Andrew]

alot of tiles i knock off reveal that they have been fixed to the wall with blobs of adhesive to the back of the tile instead of the adhesive being spread and notches on the wall.

do people use this as an alternative to notching permanent or is it only done when say walls are out etc?
what's the usual method? 4 blobs each corner and 1 in middle?

whats the dis/ advantages of this?


I did blob method on a floor once which was onto under tile heating wires , and then just made sure i squeezed plenty of grout in the joints.

 

[Andrew]

I'm glad this was resurrected, I loved this site but stopped visiting because I struggled remaining polite to the no it all/ no nothing brigade. To those that want to learn it's a real shame when someone with a trustable sounding company name like "pro spec" starts a thread with such wrong guidance.
Listen and learn or rename company to
"Low spec"