Fixing tiles with plasterboard adhesive

[lasors]

Ok, I know it's a bodge, but I hate waste and I have perhaps a dozen tiles to go on the wall as a bottom row above the floor and I've run out of Adesilex P9. I don't want to spend £30 on a new bag for such a small area and I have half a bag of plasterboard adhesive which will also be binned if not used. Tiles are 400x200.

Will I get away with sticking the tiles with the board adhesive?

NB: It's diy.

 

[White Room]

Don't know where your buying your addy at £30 a pop but dri adhesive is a no no....

 

[Time's Ran Out]

What type of answers do you expect?

While your at it you could try Sellotape or pritt.

 

[lasors]

TileGiant... didn't know where else to look. I chose them as they are a Mapei stockist and have a good range of coloured grouts and matching Silicon.

 

[White Room]

Where are the tiles being fixed splashback etc...

 

[lasors]

What type of answers? Only honest ones! However, if it can't be used, why not? What is it that makes the two adhesives so fundamentally different? So far they've both dried rock hard for me, one seems to hold the board on the wall as well as the other holds the tiles.

Not trying to be wind anyone up I'm genuinely interested in a proper answer.

 

[lasors]

Where are the tiles being fixed splashback etc...

Last row above the floor, ie. where the batten was when I started. No walls near bath or basin. All wet areas are finished, P9 used there.

 

[White Room]

It's still in a moisture area so would use appropriate adhesive as required...

 

[lasors]

Is a tubbed adhesive ok for that tile size?

 

[beanz]

Not really... It will dry eventually, but could take a while.. Once dry though, you shouldn't have any problems.
with the plasterboard adhesive, I'm tempted to say try it, and let us know in a few months whether or not the tiles are still on lol!

 

[Dougs Third Go]

if your tiles are porcelain or large format (as yours are) you need a flexible polymer modified adhesive (tile adhesive) to stick tiles. Dri wall isn't polymer modified as far as I know and neither is tubbed paste.

 

[Martyn Leeds]

Quality post.

I'd be getting a better priced adhesive to finish it off. You should be able to get a rapid flex for £15, try Topps own brand or something

or you could DIYW
Do It Your Way!

Pic's needed for forum perusal

 

[Andy Allen]

well, iv'e looked on the back of a bag of plaster board adhesive I had in the garage and can't see anywhere, where it say's it can be used for fixing tiles.....so why would you want to take the risk..?

buy a small bag of adhesive from a local tile shop, will only cost a tenner, or let us know where you live, you never know someone on here may have half a bag knocking around you can have..

 

[Ian]

well, iv'e looked on the back of a bag of plaster board adhesive I had in the garage and can't see anywhere, where it say's it can be used for fixing tiles.....so why would you want to take the risk..?

buy a small bag of adhesive from a local tile shop, will only cost a tenner, or let us know where you live, you never know someone on here may have half a bag knocking around you can have..

I was in Topps a few months back and there was a guy in there who wanted enough adhesive for one tile, they were trying to charge him £18 for a 3.5kg bag of BAL something or other! I had about 5kg of Weber SPF left in a bag and told him he could have it for a fiver. I wish I'd taken a pic of the salesman's face.

 

[Mr Tiler]

I was in Topps a few months back and there was a guy in there who wanted enough adhesive for one tile, they were trying to charge him £18 for a 3.5kg bag of BAL something or other! I had about 5kg of Weber SPF left in a bag and told him he could have it for a fiver. I wish I'd taken a pic of the salesman's face.

I have had this experience with another store must of thought I was a rite numpty

 

[White Room]

I was in Topps a few months back and there was a guy in there who wanted enough adhesive for one tile, they were trying to charge him £18 for a 3.5kg bag of BAL something or other! I had about 5kg of Weber SPF left in a bag and told him he could have it for a fiver. I wish I'd taken a pic of the salesman's face.

Bet you out of there faster than a whippet with the fiver Bri :lol:

 

[Ian]

Bet you out of there faster than a whippet with the fiver Bri :lol:

Tucked it straight into my under crackers and legged it before someone grassed me in for doing a cash job 🙂

 

[John Benton]

Someone once told me about a builder who always used drywall on concrete floors and they stuck like wotsit to a blanket. Not that I am saying I would do it. I WOULDN'T!!!

 

[Ian]

Someone once told me about a builder who always used drywall on concrete floors and they stuck like wotsit to a blanket. Not that I am saying I would do it. I WOULDN'T!!!

Being gypsum based, I bet it works a treat on anhydrite! I'm not testing out my theory though!

 

[John Benton]

Being gypsum based, I bet it works a treat on anhydrite! I'm not testing out my theory though!

Go on Bri, do it - let us know how you get on

 

[Ian]

Go on Bri, do it - let us know how you get on

I'll wait til a 200 metre floor comes up, that's probably a decent area to test it on 😉

 

[Ajax123]

No reason why plasterboard adhesive would not stick tiles, just like Silicon will... I have actually done both in the past but not on a paying job. Silicones two of my bathroom tiles on the bottom row and they've never moved. Also used plasterboard adhesive Asa. Mortar between boss blocks in a wall in my ensuite. All as solid now as they were then. On a paying job I would be worried about it going wrong. In my bathroom it's my fault and will only cost me a couple of tiles if it goes wrong.

 

[White Room]

Silicon mmmmmmmmmm nice

 

[Chalker]

A few years back I was re- fitting a boiler after the floor had been taken back for a damp problem. Quarry tiles on the floor and as soon as I wheeled the boiler back in the tiles started to lift up.

they had been fitted by the damp proofing guys who had used "finish plaster" to stick AND grout.!!

 

[Linda C]

I have googled the very same question. Helpful answers, thank you. Think I'll be buying the proper stuff.

 

[Bexxxxxx]

You can get a half bag of Mapei rapidset for about 15 quid at Screwfix.