sWe's Tiling Tips - How to Tile

[LJB Tiling]

I use a rebranded Collomix mixer. One of the nicest mixers I've used was a Festool. Flex mixers are good too. Rubi has a mixer called Rubimix 10, and I've heard it's good.
Then there's Refina.

Berg mixers are so-so.

Collomix has a brand specific guide on their paddles, which is kind of useful.

Sorry i thought them mixers were for powder adhesives, i thought there would be like a smaller type version for grout, more like a hand held mixer as its gotta be no more than 300-400rpm.

 

[sWe]

These ARE low rpm tools. They are "big" because the viscosity of the stuff we mix put enormous strains on them; they need to be powerful and produce alot of torque to be able to cope and not burn out, and that tends to equal large motors.

Most of them have variable speed controls in the region of 250-600rpm. My Collomix does around 180rpm on the lowest setting.

 

[SnipSnap]

... Berg mixers are so-so...

I have one and is very adequate for me and it is very robust. Had it for over 3 years and still performs great.

The round framed paddle is much easier to clean than the flat one; just a quick spin on a measuring BAL bucket (for reaching to the top of the paddle) and a light brushing is all that is needed.

 

[johnnyp]

Hello All,

THANK YOU sWe !!!!
So much information and very well put across, credit to you!!
GREAT site, THANKS ALL!

Good Luck
Johnnyp

 

[CyKilla]

Thanks sWe, This is priceless info, will help me a lot.unk:

 

[monkeycat]

Thanks for this post. very useful for a newcomer!

 

[biffboff]

Thanks very much for all this info and tips :smilewinkgrin: now if only i had read the last page (where you have compiled all guides in to a PDF) before i spent ages copy and pasting all your guides in to word so i could sit and read them at my lesiure :dizzy2:

cheers davie

 

[sWe]

:rofl: Glad you like it

 

[davy583]

thanks for all that it will come in as a handy referrence

MANY THANKS

 

[Falcone]

this is an awesome thread!! thanks swe!! your a legend :8:

just what i was looking for!! perfect for a newb!!

 

[larmar]

Great stuff sWe

 

[sWe]

Glad you like my posts

 

[Spud]

read some of this the other day and it has to be the most informative post on the whole forum thanks for taking the time out to write it

 

[Ajax123]

sWe - Just read the guide to anhydrites etc - great info as far as it goes but I have seen lots and lots of failures using Acrylic primers. Too many in fact to be comfortable with them generally. Agreed many of these issues are to do with application or in cases lack of it. As it is more robust to, shall we say, less thorough installers, I prefer to recommend either water dispersible epoxy primer or even better remove the cement from the equation altogether and use gypsum based addy. Price of this is not too disimilar to that of flexible cement based addy so I am told.

 

[DHTiling]

use gypsum based addy. Price of this is not too disimilar to that of flexible cement based addy so I am told.

But not as easy to get hold of country wide ,off the tile retailers shelf...:mad2: