Sand And Cement As Adhesive?

[Brian the Tile]

855, member: 42603"]Haha good to see u posting again @Brian the Tile,
Nice to see u haven't changed! 😉[/QUOTE]
No,no change from me and Can still kick it either way with the rest and them that think they are the best ,just saying

 

[Dhtiling]

It is not a difficult way to fix tiles, the problem is who has a the room in their home to allow the tile to come up so high. If the builder has dropped the floor for you, then there is no better way, though that video was a sad demonstration.

 

[Aston]

this method is not as 'skill demanding' as some people are making out. any decent modern tiler could crack this in 2 weeks. tiling walls in sand and cement would take a little bit longer but floor tiling is not difficult.

what is apparent reading this thread is, some people still can't rely on their own personal experience and understanding when it comes to setting times, adhesives admixes and bonding agents.

if i said, would sand and cement stick to a glass wall, pretty much all of you would say no, it would not be able to stick/bond/adhere. you would all agree that we would have to add something really sticky or to the glass and the mix? so use that same rationale when in comes to a porcelain tiles, dense concrete, bitumen or anything else that doesn't allow the penetration of water in a controlled period of time..

i'm honestly not patronising here, i understand that people can get a bit over awed when old schoolers come on and talk about the 'old ways of the force ;0) lol listen, trust me, learn and understand your setting times and adhesion and do a bit of floor levelling with a few bags of wet sand and a level and you will be so confident, you'll wonder what all the fuss was about (once again, sand and cement wall tiling is a bit more time consuming and a bit more tricky because you have got gravity working against you that's all.

 

[Andy Allen]

I've been tiling all my working life and I'm 50 next month and I've never used s/c to fix tiles and in all that time I've never came across a situation where I needed to.
And if I did I would give them Brian's number...lol
Sounds to much like hard work to me......and I ain't got a cement mixer..🙂

 

[Italy]

This is my thought, up to 10/15 years ago, I placed only s & c. Now with tiles present, increasingly less thickness, larger and larger, of course, to have less thick tiles, the cooking is automatically lifted and the flatness is not perfect, poses s & c is no longer suitable. Now with a leveling system it is also able to accommodate a non-planar tile.
After this, I think a young tiler although it is capable of s & c there is nothing wrong, instead think of laying a floor with s & c, might consider to qualify on factors concerning the future of the tile example: thin porcelain and its equipment or systems of that type scluther UK are used a lot.
this is just my thoughts, then every tiler is free to think what he wants, if in previous posts I have expressed adequately only because I thought it was a joke, I thought that pose S & C is no longer considered being outdated .sorry) I do not want to talk about the videos, because that person is not a tiler.
p.s I think I thought too .......😉

 

[Brian the Tile]

But you must have a shovel lol,bloke i served my time with used to say he had a mixer if anyone asked ,walks talks and brews up ,me lol

 

[Brian the Tile]

Nowt wrong with a bit of hard work, and the easiest way is not always the best way

 

[J Sid]

I've been tiling all my working life and I'm 50 next month and I've never used s/c to fix tiles and in all that time I've never came across a situation where I needed to.
And if I did I would give them Brian's number...lol
Sounds to much like hard work to me......and I ain't got a cement mixer..🙂

50 next month, have I read that somewhere before.......not getting worried about it Andy?.....
I'm the same as you and started at 19 and all I did for the first 5 years of my tiling life was labouring then apprentice in the art of floor tiling into sand and cement doing factories, breweries and dairies.
Some of these floors were big , 12 to 15 times the size of a football pitch.
All pointed in black epoxy.....
They were the days ..

 

[Rizzle from the Portizzle]

well s/c has its place when you have to tile a floor and they want to fix the kitchen 3 days later but need a 30mm+ plus build up on concarete there no better way some tilers have been tiling for years and have not offered this because they dont know how to but thats not there fault they just never got the chance realy its quite easy to do when i get a bit of time i will do a vid and show just how easy it is and how quick

 

[White Room]

That'll be good Ray.