Bal white star.

[Andy N]

im just starting to tile a bathroom floor to ceiling with 300 x 450 ceramic tiles. The customer has supplied Bal white star adhesive. Is this going to be suitable to fix these tiles?

Cheers

 

[McP77]

Those tiles are large format and as such should be fixed with a cement based adhesive rather than tubbed. The white star won't dry out properly as the air cannot get the the adhesive in the middle of the tile. The cement based adhesive dries chemically so doesn't require the air.

If going onto plaster you need to prime walls with BAL APD to stop the cement in the adhesive and the plaster reacting (also includes plasterboard)

 

[DHTiling]

hi andy... would be advisable to get customer to change the white star for bal single part flexible as this will be stronger adhesive for that format of tile.............dave..

 

[Andy N]

Thanks for that advice , i ll look into that tom.