Dunlop Adhesive

[felix]

I just spoke to an independent tile retailer about a trade account. He was able to offer me a huge discount on adhesives. The only thing is he only stocks Dunlop addys. I've only ever used BAL up till now and I was wondering if anybody had used this before and what it is like.

He told me it is made by the same company as BAL and it was just as good.

BAL SPF is currently costing me £38 for 20 kg at Topps. He could get me 20 kg of SPF Dunlop for £8. I'm sure you can see why I'm dubious

 

[grumpygrouter]

BAL owns Dunlop, (BAL owned by Ardex incidently) never used it myself but it generally doesn't have that good a reputation from posts I have seen on other forums. Not much mention of it on here. Won't hurt to try it I suppose, if its She-ite then you can always revert back to BAL for your next job.

 

[Unregistered]

Use Dunlop all the time and to work with it's just as good as BAL. No noticeable difference. I'd be willing to bet in a blindfold test that people couldn't tell the difference between Dunlop and BAL.

 

[grumpygrouter]

There's your answer Felix.

 

[DHTiling]

It's all in the name....try it and if you dont like then you dont use it again..simple as that .. lol lol ........dave.....

 

[devonmark]

Don't know what it's like myself..but if a name is anything to go by..they don't come much bigger than Dunlop...I know that doesn't always count for anything.
Mark
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[lm tiles]

try and see I use it now and again no probs

 

[guy1976]

£8 is seriously cheap for spf i would try it

 

[felix]

Thanks for that guys. I was stunned when he told me the price. It was really hard not to let him see how shocked I was.

 

[GazTech]

Thanks for that guys. I was stunned when he told me the price. It was really hard not to let him see how shocked I was.

Please let us all know what you think of it....Gaz

 

[daveshack]

If it's any good, i bet we al try it!!!

 

[felix]

Using it just now. The guy made a mistake with his price. It was £14 for a 20 kg bag. I've been very impressed with it. It seems to be just as good as the Bal product. Don't know what discount you guys get on Bal, but it costs me £38 for a 20kg bag of SPF. I'll definitely keep on using it. I've been impressed with the wall adhesive in the tubs as well. £7.50 for a 15kg tub.

 

[sc24]

Have been using dunlop fast set plus for a about 6 months, just completing a 300m2 limestone job using dunlop large format white, no problems at all it's difficult to tell the difference from bal, have been told they use a cheaper polymer. (£38 a bag!!!! crikey)

 

[Fekin]

Only thing you can ever do is try something once, then you'll have some idea what it's limitations are, or your own, lol

 

[felix]

I went back to Bal on the last job I did and I was able to notice a difference. That said I was impressed with the Dunlop stuff and I will use it on smaller jobs. Managed to get the Bal for £28 a bag. Don't know if that is still expensive or reasonable