Slc, What's Your Preferred Brand?

[Andy Allen]

How can you guarantee your work when you exceed the manufacturer recommended thickness of adhesive?

 

[StevieBoy]

How can you guarantee your work when you exceed the manufacturer recommended thickness of adhesive?

Right ok, so another change of topic then - no probs.

With this addy, I have done loads, and I mean loads of jobs this way - but for sure no more than 20mm in depth, and never had any issues whatso ever.

If that was the case, I'd lay some off cuts in first. Or use some cheap B & Q tiles etc.

 

[Andy Allen]

So far I've stopped myself getting into this with you but the fact is the way you lay floor tiles is wrong...
The recommended way is to lay a rib of adhesive using a notched trowel and fixing the tile using a twisting motion back buttering the tile will unsure an even better bond, any uneven floors should be leveled using a suitable slc so the recommended thickness is adhered too.
Any adhesive manafactures pdf will say exactly that and if you can show me one that recommends packing b&q tiles under them to build up the floor or blobbing down cow pats of adhesive to lay tiles then I would love to see it..

 

[StevieBoy]

So far I've stopped myself getting into this with you but the fact is the way you lay floor tiles is wrong...
The recommended way is to lay a rib of adhesive using a notched trowel and fixing the tile using a twisting motion back buttering the tile will unsure an even better bond, any uneven floors should be leveled using a suitable slc so the recommended thickness is adhered too.
Any adhesive manafactures pdf will say exactly that and if you can show me one that recommends packing b&q tiles under them to build up the floor or blobbing down cow pats of adhesive to lay tiles then I would love to see it..

Lol oh deary, deary me.

I must have been laying all the tiles I've laid in my time all wrong then.

Yeah, it'd be nice to have snooker table type walls and floors to lay on etc and do text book tiling lol.

I'm not a text book tiler, the method I use works for me, as it did for the guy that taught me the trade for nearly 30 years yawn yawn.

You can't argue with the pictures I have provided, all tiles are laid on a solid bed of adhesive, just thicker than the norm.

Let's just leave it at that now as I'm getting bored.

 

[Andy Allen]

I really couldn't care less how you lay your floors your the one that felt the need to bring the subject up again ( post 39) I was bored a long time ago...lol

 

[widler]

Tile master level 3,around 24m2, 12 bags, mixed and laid within a hour , walked on within another 30mins, I know that cos I left my van keys on the fire place and had to wait till 6.30 to leave 🙁

Tilemasterlevel 30

 

[widler]

Ps I'd used Webber the day before, good stuff, but no where near as good as this stuff, flows like a pint down my neck on a Friday tea time

 

[Qwerty]

There will clearly be no agreement on this matter.

If you have indeed been laying tiles this way since you started tiling, then yes, you have been doing it wrong all this time. This is according to British Standards and guidelines set by the TTA and every adhesive manufacturer I have ever known as well as every tiler I know.

But, on the other hand, if it works for you and you are happy with this method, then no heated words exchanged on the forum will change that. If you are happy to stand by your fixing methods and happy that it is time effective, cost effective, will not fail and that the adhesive manufacturer you use would approve of said fixing method then don't let any man on here tell you otherwise. After all, it's your customers, your tiling & your business.

We are merely stating facts and how we do it, how we were taught to do it and how the adhesive companies expect us to do it.......personally if I ever caught any tilers laying off cuts or cheap tiles underneath to level a floor I would pack their tools up there and then and wave them goodbye.

 

[StevieBoy]

I really couldn't care less how you lay your floors your the one that felt the need to bring the subject up again ( post 39) I was bored a long time ago...lol

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[White Room]

Tile master level 3,around 24m2, 12 bags, mixed and laid within a hour , walked on within another 30mins, I know that cos I left my van keys on the fire place and had to wait till 6.30 to leave 🙁View attachment 78590 Tilemasterlevel 30 View attachment 78591 View attachment 78592 View attachment 78593 View attachment 78594

Is that one of those plastering straight edges Craig leaning on the fire place??