Do you butter back of tiles

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I also use a floor trowel and back butter tiles in large format. I also will occasionaly lift a tile to check on the coverage, this I find most useful and it is a good way to tell if your speading technique is up to scratch.
 
i personally use a larget 10mm trowel if using any large format tiles if there is full coverage on the wall i will rarely have to back butter tiles everyone has different methods
 
Hi ,Normaly i don´t butter the back of tiles, with the right prepwork and comb size there is no need. For walls no more than 10 kg adhesive mixed to ensure a good bed,and 4m² in 20mins.However when laying a floor, direckt in sreed, a skim on the back with FLEXY GREEN ADDY helps:8:2Balls
 
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
 
I never use tub adhesive with porcelain, and like most here would use 10mm or even round notch floor trowel on large format
 
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
 

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