Grey or white adhesive with grey limestone?

[Qwerty]

I spoke to a fellow tiler the other day who laid a small tumbled limestone (medium grey colour tiles) on a kitchen floor using white rapid set (Mapei Keraquick). He is now paranoid he should have used grey addy instead but has reported no bleed through or any other issues.

Just got me thinking (as I've only ever fixed light coloured limestone) what everybody else would use.....(grey or white). I would probably have used white also to be fair.

Photo of same tiles he fixed are below...

 

[afright]

I would have gone with grey rapid with those tiles.

 

[Andy Allen]

Often wonder this myself. ...if natural stone tiles are backskimmed dose it matter what colour adhesive is used..?

 

[nybor62]

ive all ways used white on natural stone, but i see ya point

 

[widler]

Often wonder this myself. ...if natural stone tiles are backskimmed dose it matter what colour adhesive is used..?

Probably a dark addy on a light stone would darken the stone Andy ?
I've always used white with light ,Gray with dark..

 

[White Room]

I pay the same price for white and grey rapid addy so would go for white....

 

[CJ]

White..........

 

[Chalker]

Grey or limestone grout for me. White just doesn't stand the dirt.

 

[Andy Allen]

Probably a dark addy on a light stone would darken the stone Andy ?
I've always used white with light ,Gray with dark..

Just wondering if anyone has ever done a comparison to see if it dose make that much difference. ..

 

[Just Rizzle]

grey or white dosnt realy matter mate aslong as you BUTTER THE BACK of the tiles with the adhesive u are using if you dontspread the back you risk tiles popping up.

 

[widler]

Just wondering if anyone has ever done a comparison to see if it dose make that much difference. ..

Aye I would be curious too,I've got a limestone job coming up ( plus a geometric hallway in the same house, 1st one, I'm excited) so I will test a bit with grey and white.
Prob make no difference at all [emoji85][emoji86][emoji87]

 

[Just Rizzle]

grey or white dosnt realy matter mate aslong as you BUTTER THE BACK of the tiles with the adhesive u are using if you dontspread the back you risk tiles popping up.

 

[Andy Allen]

grey or white dosnt realy matter mate aslong as you BUTTER THE BACK of the tiles with the adhesive u are using if you dontspread the back you risk tiles popping up.

Yes I think we all know that.....we're just wondering if it would make a difference to the tile shade..

 

[Qwerty]

Certainly got me thinking if it would really make any difference. As has been raised, when back skimmed then laid would you actually tell?
Light coloured limestone is semi translucent hence why bleed through is an issue, but unsure with darker stone.

 

[afright]

Just a question,has anybody ever had bleed thru,I always stick to lighter tiles white addy,darker tiles grey addy,but many moons ago when I did my first light limestone floor the customer supplied the adhesive which was grey and not knowing then about any info on the problems of bleed thru we laid the floor, went back ten years later and it still look ok and this was all supplied with the kitchen from Harrods.

 

[Qwerty]

I've never had it CJ, but often worry about it happening. I may perform some tests if I can get a hold of some of my friends offcuts

 

[High Peak Tiling]

Just wondering if anyone has ever done a comparison to see if it dose make that much difference. ..

I have done a job where I ran out of white addy and used grey on light limestone, the few with grey were buttered like the rest and haven't shadowed or shown any difference.

 

[High Peak Tiling]

Just a question,has anybody ever had bleed thru,I always stick to lighter tiles white addy,darker tiles grey addy,but many moons ago when I did my first light limestone floor the customer supplied the adhesive which was grey and not knowing then about any info on the problems of bleed thru we laid the floor, went back ten years later and it still look ok and this was all supplied with the kitchen from Harrods.

Your joints must have been pretty clean, as you know it will shadow/patchy the grout and tiles