Marmox fixing dowels

[jstrats]

Hi everyone, haven't posted for a while but i have a query.

Dot and dabbed Marmox boards yesterday, put the fixing dowels in today and they stick out a mile! Anybody else had this trouble?

Am gonna have trouble notching the addy over them now, using rectified porcelain as well.

Cheers, Jamie.

 

[Thespanishtiler]

where they the spankers with the red pin in the center ?

if so then no never have a problem with them.

 

[jstrats]

Yes they were, the other boards i fixed onto battens with washers and they were fine, but the spankers were protruding out a lot further, they just didnt pull in nicely like the washers do. It's only a 2m wall so i don't mind getting over it with a bit of dot and dabbing tomorrow but i wouldn't want to do a large area like that. It's really put me off using them again.

 

[Thespanishtiler]

you have to hammer the dowel fully home and into the face of the board before you hammer the red pin home,

would go with a bigger trowel and a bit of back buttering rather than d and d mate.

 

[jstrats]

Is it possible to remove them and start again?

 

[Thespanishtiler]

i wouldnt try it mate, you will destroy the board etc etc

as a point of reference I only fit 20mm boards to walls with the d and d with spankers method, anything less is too thin

I would skim the wall with spf then tile once dried

 

[jstrats]

Thanks for the advice, will remember that in future, i did use 10mm, will skim it tomorrow and do it properly from now on, you never stop learning eh?

 

[Thespanishtiler]

always learning mate