Shall I use white addy for copper honed slate?

[bluevin123]

Hi,

Im Tiling a 28m2 bathroom in Copper honed slate next week, walls and floor and am just wondering if to use grey bagged adhesive or white adhesive, I know on Travertine and some other Natural stones you would normally use white.

Also Ive put 12mm Hardibacker boards all around, and is it right I dont need to prime them and I shouldnt need flexi addy, only on the floor.
Any advice would be great.
Cheers.
Vin.

 

[grumpygrouter]

Adhesive colour is normally relative to the transparency of the tile and the final grout colour. Your slate won't be transparent so what is your grout colour going to be?

 

[bluevin123]

Im using Ivory grout Grumpy.
Vin

 

[Gazzer]

Then i would use white adhesive and if the floor substrate is timber then a single part flexi adhesive is needed even if you have used Hardibacker IMO

 

[westerhopetiles]

hello on hardy board you only need to use a semi flex adhesive like weber set plus or mapiker by mapei and grey is sound just try not to dot and dab

 

[DHTiling]

Try not to dot and dab....:smilewinkgrin:.. DEFFO dont dot and dab..

 

[wetdec]

Work clean use a damp sponge all the time. They will probably be indian so quite soft and flake when cutting so you have to use a wet cutter cant be done dry with a 4" grinder........


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