Best Tile Adhesive for Walls and Floors? Voting is now CLOSED - Results are in!! Well done MAPEI!

[mcarthurtiling]

mostly use bal or the odd occasion palace adhesive.

 

[Rookery]

Mapei all the way. Keraquick for floors, P9 for walls. Great grout too.

 

[masterofnone]

Weber for me, good adhesive and cheep as chips

 

[Hughesy]

PCI Nanolite is the best adhesive I have used although I generally use Mapei... Nanolite is a bit pricey but great product to work with.

 

[steveaykroyd]

Bal green star generally for me.used mapei this year purchased by the customer and with hours the tiles came loose!! No back up from mapei

 

[stefan36]

Ardex is my first choice then BAL.

 

[alchemist3]

isomat ak20-22

 

[on all floors]

Mapei

 

[Jason seary]

Bal grip

 

[Starskey]

Mapei all day every day, except Sundays

 

[poynton phil]

Mapei, Keraquick, p9, and proflex

 

[Tommo81]

Nico all day long

 

[twurphy]

Ardex /weber mainly for me on the swimming pools

Unibond rapid set for flooring I've been using at the moment

 

[DJS]

Mapei for me. Mapeker, P9, Keraflex and Keraquick get me through most situations.

Grey or white depends on the tile I'm fixing or the grout colour.

I use Granfix on the odd occasion my supplier is out of stock on Mapei stuff, and waiting on a delivery.

 

[White Room]

Unibond rapid set for flooring I've been using at the moment

Change your adhesive mate, theres better quality stuff out there.

 

[Ambercat]

Weber SPF Rapid does the job for most of the bathrooms I tile :angel:

 

[Dan]

Anymore for any more?

Remember that if you're on tapatalk you'll need to visit the forum on a computer or use the web browser on your phone and login normally to vote on the poll.

Poll will be closed soon and votes counted. As they say on TV.

 

[misaps]

Mapei Keraflex has been the one of choice for our jobs over the past year. Consistently good results as well

 

[burncross]

Weber or Bal

 

[Spud]

Hi Dan any chance when you post the results of showing the 3 previous years to compare how the market share is from year to year ? it would be interesting cheers Gary

 

[Leif]

Unibond rapid set cement based, used once. Utter carp. Still soft after 5 hours.

 

[Bubblecraft]

Wouldn't expect any better from Unibond

 

[Dan]

Hi Dan any chance when you post the results of showing the 3 previous years to compare how the market share is from year to year ? it would be interesting cheers Gary

See the original first post neale did and you can see polls right back to 2007 mate.

 

[Dan]

Hi Dan any chance when you post the results of showing the 3 previous years to compare how the market share is from year to year ? it would be interesting cheers Gary

Got you the links now I'm on a computer mate.

2011 can be found Here 2010 can be found HERE .....2009 can be found HERE ..... 2008 can be found HERE and mid-2006 to the end of 2007 can be found HERE.

You can see BAL had a strong holding back in the day, as expected. And slowly Mapei and other brands such as Weber and even some of the others have managed to get more votes (whether that reflects actual market share is another thing mind).

Weber doing really well this year really, and the loyalty scheme is always being mentioned on here, so I think that'll pay off in next years Poll. They're serious about web presence and offline marketing. They've got new younger staff in to manage it. And it'll take a bit of time to get out to the tilers but it's going well.

Clearly BAL had a bash of TilerWorld, that competition thing speedy tiler was it called? - but it doesn't seem to have paid off the same as webers different approach which seems to be more store-based, then letting word of mouth do the work.

Price was always an issue with BAL but back in the day there weren't many other trusted options for the UK. They had it easy IMO for years. Their training centre paid off back in the day BIGtime and Larsen and others tried it eventually and it didn't work so well.

BAL are doing very well this year though compared to last and the year before that even. At least TilersForums Poll wise, we have to not get too ahead of ourselves. But the people voting on the polls we know of, and know quite well too in most cases, so it does reflect some of the market perhaps. At least the % of tilers that also use computers and forums. So perhaps a similar percentage in the real world would apply.

Anyway, links are there mate for you to study and make your own mind up.

I'll check the database near the end of the poll to see which of the firms has had the most false votes (from members who have never used the forum before but all of a sudden want to vote about their adhesive brand they used) and will deduct those from the official figure I'll publish and hopefully get in some trade, general construction industry, and DIY magazines.

 

[trevl]

Weber for me. Easy to use, consistent and also competitively priced