Bathroom advice, Aquaboard Adhesive?

[jubba]

Hi guys,
I am a bit of a novice but did a good job on my kitchen floor and wall tiling with some great advice from this forum.

Just doing my bathroom now so figured this was the place to come.

Just erected a new stud wall and got some aqua-panels from wickes today, which I am going to fit around the shower bath area.

What i need advice on is a good adhesive to use?
This will be used to seal the joints and fix the jointing tape on the aquaboard.
Going to fit ceramic tiles 250 x 400.
I would prefer to use ready mixed adhesive as it will make the job alot easier for me.
Screwfix do : Bal Bluestar?, unibond?, mapegrip d2?, all suitable for showers?

Also the wickes guide recommends fitting the tape to the aquaboards "immediately before tiling" but surley i could do this in advance as long as I just put a thin coat of adhesive on?

You advice appreciated :smilewinkgrin:

Thanks

Lee

 

[jubba]

Thanks again.

Please can someone advise on the technical reasons for the need to skim.

Suction of surfaces / absorbtion of the moisture from the adhesive?

 

[jubba]

Plasterer has been tonight and says that bonding coat finish with PVA'd surface should be a great low suction surface to tile to, which makes sense to me.

What could possibly go wrong?

 

[Scott]

Jubba he is soooooo wrong

For starters dont use PVA, as for the bonding read the top of page 4 of this:

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[jubba]

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Thanks for the info, Read the section about tiling, now even more confused? :mad2:

Seems to contradict itself, States :
"Tiles upto 20kg/m2 can be applied directly to the thistle finish except where the system includes a bonding agent."
(Does thistle finish mean a skimmed finish plaster?)
but then says
"Tiles should not be applied directley to thistle undercoats,"

Also says :
"As the total weight of plaster and tiles applied over a bonding agent is limited to 20kg/m3"

Don't expect the combined weight of the plaster and tiles to be anywhere near 20kg/m3.

Am i reading this all wrong? missing the point?

 

[Scott]

Thanks for the info, Read the section about tiling, now even more confused? :mad2:

Seems to contradict itself, States :
"Tiles upto 20kg/m2 can be applied directly to the thistle finish except where the system includes a bonding agent."
(Does thistle finish mean a skimmed finish plaster?)
but then says
"Tiles should not be applied directley to thistle undercoats,"

Also says :
"As the total weight of plaster and tiles applied over a bonding agent is limited to 20kg/m3"

Don't expect the combined weight of the plaster and tiles to be anywhere near 20kg/m3.

Am i reading this all wrong? missing the point?

Thats the only bit you need worry about if your tiles are ok on the weight.

 

[jubba]

Thanks again Scottley,

Just read the stickey post on "PVA Vs Primer" very informative and now appreciate that he should not and will not be applying PVA to seal the surface!

In that thread they talk about sealing render and gypsum coats with primer prior to tiling? Is this not the same as bonding coat?

Can an alternative to bonding coat be used as long as primer is applied to avoid the cost of having it skimmed?