Powder or ready mixed adhesive?

[Neil 28]

Hi everyone, new to this forum so a warm hello to you all. I am about to re tile my downstairs shower room but need some advice.

Firstly the tiles that I am using are ceramic metro tiles 30cmx10cm and 8mm thick.
the surface to be tiled is aerated block coated in render, bonding and thistle multifinish, the shower area is made up of hardie backer board.

my question is will a ready mixed adhesive ie mapei d2 be suitable or a cement based adhesive ie mapei keraflex s1 be better suited?

In the past I have only used ready mixed but that was using smaller lighter tiles and they were installed in the kitchen and utility room.

any advice would be gratefully appreciated.
neil.

 

[Ian]

Welcome along to TF. I'd use powder all day long, I'm not a Mapei user but, would suggest their equivalent of weber set plus, it's cement based and slow setting.

 

[Neil 28]

Welcome along to TF. I'd use powder all day long, I'm not a Mapei user but, would suggest their equivalent of weber set plus, it's cement based and slow setting.

thank you for your reply, to be honest I was stretching to the idea of cement based over the ready mixed one just thought if ready mixed was better suited to my type of tiles.

Reason for mapei is because that's the only adhesive I have previously used (ready mixed) and the s1 variant is low dust emitting.

naturally if I opt for the cement based i will be priming the walls with the appropriate primer, ie mapei s1 with primer G.

Thanks again, Neil.

 

[Dougs Third Go]

a cement based rather than ready mix for me too

 

[Martyn Leeds]

A slow-setting powdered for me on the walls...

Have we had any quotes from local pro's??

 

[High Peak Tiling]

Hello & :welcome:

 

[Rookery]

Slow set powdered for me too. I'd choose Mapei Adesilex P9 over the Keraflex though.

 

[charlie1]

Slow set powdered for me too. I'd choose Mapei Adesilex P9 over the Keraflex though.

Try the weber equivalent 'weber set'. it's sooooo much better, when yo go back to p9 you will insist mapei have started adding big chunks of sand to it and you will wonder how you ever got the stuff to stay on the wall

 

[Ian]

Try the weber equivalent 'weber set'. it's sooooo much better, when yo go back to p9 you will insist mapei have started adding big chunks of sand to it and you will wonder how you ever got the stuff to stay on the wall

The best slow setting adhesive I've ever used. I used Ardex x77 last week and that is very nice as well, doesn't grab as well as the set plus though. Got the tilemaster equivalent of set plus to try as well, I'll review that when I've used it.

 

[White Room]

The best slow setting adhesive I've ever used. I used Ardex x77 last week and that is very nice as well, doesn't grab as well as the set plus though. Got the tilemaster equivalent of set plus to try as well, I'll review that when I've used it.

Interested to know how much that costs Bri....

 

[Ian]

Interested to know how much that costs Bri....

I've got a price list in the van, I'll have a look in a min.

 

[ianflem]

Tilemasters Standard Setaflex .. ..used it a few times recently & cant fault it.

 

[The D]

Ardex x77 stands head and shoulders above all the others in my humble opinion and at the moment at CTD it is the best on price and when it is not on offer there is only one that is better priced

 

[Rookery]

Is that the microtec stuff? If so, its brilliant.

 

[AtlasTony]

weber all day long.