Customer supplying own adhesive...

[Bathfix Bob]

My customer has supplied me with Mapei cement based adhesive, Tile Giant must have sold it to them with the tiles and they did this before they contacted me.

I always use Ultra products as that is all my local tile shop stock, can I use Ultra acrylic primer for a Mapei adhesive or has it got to be a Mapei primer?

My gut feeling says Mapei but does it really matter?

 

[White Room]

I tend to use Bal or Sbr primer with all adhesives I use....

 

[One Day]

You can intermix primers but you lose any guarantee if things should fail.
(But then all failures are down to fixer error aren't they?!)

(I mix brands)

 

[High Peak Tiling]

I second both above, I use Weber primer for everything even if Bal or profix addy

 

[Turkish tiler]

If anything goes wrong first thing they will ask what primer did you use, I always use ultra with ultra acrylic primer, mapei with mapei primers (primer g , s or t, if need Eco primer)
just to peace of mind
tile giants keep stock for primer g

 

[One Day]

I still say if anything goes wrong it won't be down to mixing primer brands.
Wrong use of said primer maybe, but not mixing brands.

 

[Mr Tiler]

Tell the Customer to supply the primer

 

[Turkish tiler]

If you used different brand primer to a different brand adhesive you lose any guarantee if things should fail.........

 

[Bathfix Bob]

Tough one...I suppose I'm going to tell him he needs another trip to Tile Giant. At first they had sold him tubbed adhesive but I insisted it had to be powdered.

Will the Mapei primer be the same stinky stuff in the tanking kits I use?

 

[Turkish tiler]

One in mapei tanking kit watered ready to use primerG.
same one you will get just un watered

 

[Bathfix Bob]

Mapei Tile Adhesive Primer 1kg | Wall Adhesive & Grout | Screwfix.com

I think I'll just buy this and charge him for it, I don't want to be awkward and make him go out again to prove the point that I like supplying my own adhesive, because he's a nice guy.

 

[widler]

If anything goes wrong first thing they will ask what primer did you use, I always use ultra with ultra acrylic primer, mapei with mapei primers (primer g , s or t, if need Eco primer)
just to peace of mind
tile giants keep stock for primer g

Problem is turkish i doubt they would pay out anyway.
Imagine it, it says on the tub , say 3-1 mix, you tell them yes i used 3-1 they will say prove it,u say take a sample, they do come back and say sorry its 3.56743 -1 , your wrong they are right, thats a bit extreme but insurance/big companys will try owt to get out of it, you would be like a shivering whippet by the end of it .

And aint most primers SBR based ?