Re tiling a job previously done by a 5 year old!

[Bradma9]

Had to take up a bathroom floor today without cracking a tile as the mother in law wanted the same tiles put down which she has had for years!
Took the first tile up to find it was laid straight onto the wooden floorboard!

Ill say no more!

 

[Ian]

Plenty of it about, I've seen 2 failed floors this week, both tiled directly to chipboard.

 

[Rookery]

It doesn't help when the manufacturers make a "Tile on wood" product.

 

[Stef]

It doesn't help when the manufacturers make a "Tile on wood" product.

Wonder who the manufacturer is???

That's a hard one!!

 

[Qwerty]

It doesn't help when the manufacturers make a "Tile on wood" product.

Tile on wood in a tub!!!

 

[White Room]

Nicobond used to do one not sure if it's still available but it stuck like nothing else.....

 

[Bradma9]

Just been told he used the same addy to tile onto a concrete floor in the conservatory!

 

[prceramics]

Tile on wood in a tub!!!

if only it was that easy

 

[Sean SML Tiling]

it is. It does exactly what it says on the tin

 

[Sean SML Tiling]

I wouldn't put my name to a job if a customer bought this.

 

[kilty55]

jesus!!

 

[PaulSmith]

Ouch...

 

[Brian the Tile]

have any of you heard of or used Fast Flex from bal?,not sure if they still do it at topps if you ever used it you will know it sticks like wotsit to a blanket and you can use it on timber floors, i once had to replace a few tiles in a bathroom and it was fetching the floor boards up with it,not the nicest adhesive to work with but my god did it stick well

 

[Qwerty]

Scary isn't it!

 

[Stef]

have any of you heard of or used Fast Flex from bal?,not sure if they still do it at topps if you ever used it you will know it sticks like wotsit to a blanket and you can use it on timber floors, i once had to replace a few tiles in a bathroom and it was fetching the floor boards up with it,not the nicest adhesive to work with but my god did it stick well

Was that not Elastomeric adhesive from Bal?

 

[Andy Allen]

it used to be called bal fast flex, it was a 2 part mix, powder and liquid, its now been changed to bal single part fast flex, same stuff, just you mix it with water and not liquid.....and yes sticks like poo to a blanket...

 

[Stef]

That's what it was, couldn't remember the name but knew it was an Elasto addy.


Need to check the date on these, been lying in my garage..

 

[Peter]

It baffles me how single part rubber crumbs behave the same way as one mixed with polymer liquid. Miss the free bucket though.

Wonder if they perform the same or if the 2 part is still more flexible?

 

[Diggy]

In the one part the polymer is just rehydrated with the addition of water so should be the same. However:
1. The new version takes longer to set imho.
2. With the 2 part ( and the same with things like GT1 ) , apparently there is a better dispersion of said polymers using this format.

 

[afright]

Did a job the other week customer had tubs of Unibond tile and grout he got in a sale £3.90 a tub did not want to use it but would have lost the job so had a compromise just used it on the floors but used powdered grout it was a bit like Bal-flex could not grout for 48 hours but it did stick. And regarding Bal fast flex had a major fail with that stuff had to do a grp balcony did every thing by the book as never tile to grp before, in two weeks started to lift, stuck to the tile but came clean away from the grp, called in the Bal tech guy ,he turned up and together we both fixed a few tiles went back a few days later and they failed, the result from Bal was,the fixer was to blame so will not use the stuff again,have since found out from a boat builder that in the process of using grp it forms a wax on the surface so this in his opinion is what the adhesive was sticking to.