Toppfix rapid

[afright]

Tiling a bathroom with porcelain 600 x 300 using toppfix rapid this morning got to work and notice a tile had a bit of lippage so decided to remove it and in the process two tiles came away clean from the render the walls were plastered about 10 weeks ago and they were primed.The customer supplied all the materials,did notice the render felt a bit damp from the adhesive but the adhesive was set hard,just getting a bit worried so I have stopped using it and have picked up some weber which I use mainly and never had this problem with the weber has anybody else had this, it does knock your confidence a bit,so I think I will be giving Topps rubbish a miss in the future.The picture is the back of the tile.

 

[charlie1]

I had a double tile failure 2 months ago and your right, it does knock your confidence, it was butech flexi cement i was using! I stick with weber / mapei now

 

[DHTiling]

Did you prime neat ..?

 

[afright]

Yes always use sbr the render was troweled up not sponged whether that made any difference.If toppfix is made by Palace then I wont be using it again I had a failure once on a ply floor many years ago and that was Tile magic's adhesive which I was informed was Palace.

 

[Diggy]

Was it render or plaster?

Diggy

 

[Rookery]

Yes always use sbr the render was troweled up not sponged whether that made any difference.If toppfix is made by Palace then I wont be using it again I had a failure once on a ply floor many years ago and that was Tile magic's adhesive which I was informed was Palace.

Yes Toppfix is made by Palace and in my view its cack. Stick to the quality brands, 'scuse the pun, Weber, Mapei, BAL, Ardex.

 

[White Room]

And Tilemaster....

 

[Ian]

A few issues with Toppfix adhesive seem to be turning up in recent weeks, it would be nice if someone could tell us if any tests have been done on it. I used to use it occasionally but, stopped altogether when some rapid SPF (the one in the green bag), took 56 hours to set, all topps could say was, "it's a bit cold so the set times will be a bit longer"!