Fixing a single tile

[Swindiff]

I need to fix a single tile as a sink splashback in a cloakroom. The tile is a 600mm x 300mm porcelain tile. It's the tiles that were used for the flooring. I don't have any tile adhesive but I do have some tubes of gripfill and dow 785 bacteria resistant Silicon. As this is just a single tile is there any reason why I should not use gripfil or Silicon rather than buying some tile adhesive for a single tile. The wall is plaster board. Cheers

 

[Qwerty]

Yes, because it is the incorrect method fixing tiles and could fail. If you have no adhesive just buy some

 

[WetSaw]

A tube of CT1 would stick it up no problem. It's only 1 tile on a splashback, it's not likely to fall off on someone's head.

 

[Qwerty]

I thought he only had gripfil & Silicon?

 

[WetSaw]

I thought he only had gripfil & Silicon?

A tube of CT1 would cost less than decent adhesive and, as it has a lot more uses, he won't have loads left over!

 

[Brian the Tile]

I need to fix a single tile as a sink splashback in a cloakroom. The tile is a 600mm x 300mm porcelain tile. It's the tiles that were used for the flooring. I don't have any tile adhesive but I do have some tubes of gripfill and dow 785 bacteria resistant Silicon. As this is just a single tile is there any reason why I should not use gripfil or Silicon rather than buying some tile adhesive for a single tile. The wall is plaster board. Cheers

If it was a few i would say no ,but for one tile i would say either will do it

 

[GAZ5518]

Whilst not the correct way to fix a tile .. Gripfill will do the job on this occasion.. It will stick like Sh## to a Blanket...