Do you butter back of tiles

[P'boro tiler]

on my last job i put 300 x 300 ceramics on the walls and 600 x 300's on the floor.

the wall tiles got back buttered and the floors tiles didnt! i got atleast 90% coverage on floor tiles by using a large format platinum trowel, theyre fantastic! the wall tiles needed skimming as they were bowed in the middle so of course i only skimmed the middle

 

[Dave H]

I never use tub adhesive with porcelain, and like most here would use 10mm or even round notch floor trowel on large format

 

[prceramics]

like enduro says, would be best to use a 8mm or 10mm trowel and just spread the walls on large format tiles.

My 6mm trowel is only used on slashbacks

 

[nybor62]

all ways back skim , it takes no time at all , nice solid bed

 

[charlie1]

I spread the adhesive in a vertical directionfrom batten up using flat edge of the towel, i then comb all the adhesive upwards just beyond 1st course using the seated edge leaving maybe 1-2m of vertical lines of adhesive with lots of excess adhesive above it waiting to be combed...i then back butter tile and set tile and

 

[charlie1]

...Towel size... 600 x 300 then no less than 10mm square notch but probably use a 12mm

 

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

[video=youtube;Yb0o890Ki04]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb0o890Ki04[/video] take a look at this we back butter all tiles !! just seconds before fixing