Do you butter back of tiles

[doug boardley]

I'm with enduro, as long as I have a good solid substrate (I wouldn't tile it if it wasn't lol!) large format tiles.I'd up my trowel to an 8 or 10 and also give back of tiles a skim esp if they have a profiled back:santa_cheesy:

 

[DHTiling]

Do you butter back of tiles

I use tile adesive my good man.......:santa5:

 

[cornish_crofter]

I use tile adesive my good man.......:santa5:

There's always one smarta**! 😀

 

[burncross]

i can't believe its not butter :santa_cheesy:

 

[Grace'sDad]

I generally use a floor trowel for large format wall tiles (aswell as floor) and back butter also. Always back butter when I need to be certain I've got 100% coverage i.e. heated floors.

You'd be amazed how many people simply push the tile onto the adhesive/wall rather than bedding it in properly.

Here's a piccie of a 600x300 porcelain fixed using tubbed gear and a 3mm plastic spreader which came in the adhesive - you know the type!
The tiles started to fall off the (freshly plastered) walls after 2 weeks.

Look at the coverage and be amazed!:santa_cheesy:

 

[White Room]

Thats the reason I back butter when you look at the back of the tile

 

[DS Tiling]

As others have said, use the right trowel for the tile and condition of the substrate then check coverage and backbutter if required but rarely have to.

 

[cornish_crofter]

Look at the coverage and be amazed!:santa_cheesy:

What coverage?

 

[Grace'sDad]

Exactly!

 

[devonmark]

Here's a piccie of a 600x300 porcelain fixed using tubbed gear and a 3mm plastic spreader which came in the adhesive - you know the type!
The tiles started to fall off the (freshly plastered) walls after 2 weeks.

Look at the coverage and be amazed!:santa_cheesy:

can't see the problem myself...lol, how do people manage to get away with it..