Major price difference - mapei/bal

[John the tile]

Hello all

ive been to tile giant and topps tiles and cant believe how expensive bal cement adhesive is at topps tile,.

AT tile giant mapei keraflex is £20 a bag and covers about 9msq

at topps bal single part flex £48 a bag and covers about 8msq (wet areas)

.so purely on the basis of price im gona go with mapei for my first job??????

opinions anyone,. (tech departments for both brands advised me on cementious adhesive)

ta

 

[grumpygrouter]

Kereflex is good stuff!!

 

[Rad2474]

I use mapei it's good stuff you won't be disappointed

 

[Olz]

Oddly at CTD Bal Adhesive is more expensive than Mapei, yet Bal grout is cheaper :dizzy2:

 

[brian c]

i dont think you will get 9m2 out a 20kg bag tbh....wish we did.More like 5 to 6 m2.

 

[IGTiling]

20kg bag will only do 4 to 5m².

 

[DHTiling]

Thats depends upon the size trowel used....4 to 5 mtrs if a 10mm trowel and lots more as you come down in trowel size...

And i used to be a BAL user but much prefer Mapei now and a lot cheaper as well...

 

[Gazzer]

It would depend what sort of tile you were fixing and the condition of the substrate as to how many M2 it will fix.

 

[Andy Tiler]

hi golddigger if u set ur self an account up at topps tiles you will find topps tiles is alot cheaper with there own brand of adhesive

 

[John the tile]

when you say there own brand of adhesive - do you mean not the Bal stuff?

 

[theyomper]

Toppfix made by Palace

 

[IGTiling]

As a rule of thumb I allow 4 to 5m² per 20kg bag of adhesive, yes I appreciate that there are other variables like substrate, Tile size, Trowel size etc but 4 to 5 is a good average. As for Toppfix adhesive, I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole - personal experience with this adhesive has shown its quality and consistency to be too variable. Mapei Adhesives are very good and the new adhesives at Tilegiant - Proquick and Pro Flexible are very good value and are made by Mapei.

 

[mikethetile]

you wont get the decent prices on toppfix from topps till you have been buying off them for a while

open an accouint at tile giant and they will give you good prices from day one, as tg sponser this site they give even better discount to arms members

I used bal for years and really its only the price that lets it down. im a mapei convert now

mapei wipe the floor with palace on quality and ease of use for not a lot more money

 

[Andy Allen]

webber set plus...........used some today.......good stuff cheap to.