What is tile adhesive for anymore? Page: 2

[Steve6690]

I haven't started paid work yet. When I said new I meant really really new 🙂

 

[Boggs]

Me too, bet I’m slower. 😛

 

[Pauly tiler]

The industry need new blood like all industries, keep at it

 

[One Day]

I think that adhesive manufacturers factor in the "idiot factor".
In other words, they give guidance on how to use their products, but if they were completely truthful, for instance saying you must achieve 75% coverage, then the "idiots" would only achieve 50%. So by saying you must achieve 100%, the "idiots" will achieve 75% and all is well with the world.

 

[widler]

I remember ‘the back butter theory ‘ being spoke about on here years ago, when porcelain became wide spread , and basically,back buttering was so the tile adhesive stuck to the substrate tile adhesive , nothing to do with coverage , to do with the pourisisity (no idea if that’s a real word 😉 ) so the polymers in the addy had something to stick to as porcelain is not like normal ceramic and addy won’t grab to porcelain like it does to the biscuit

 

[LM]

I think that adhesive manufacturers factor in the "idiot factor".
In other words, they give guidance on how to use their products, but if they were completely truthful, for instance saying you must achieve 75% coverage, then the "idiots" would only achieve 50%. So by saying you must achieve 100%, the "idiots" will achieve 75% and all is well with the world.

Agree!


Where’s the agree button gone I like it?

 

[Flintstone]

A lot of the time by the time you have troweled the adhesive numerous times you have well and truly keyed it in. if you just put a large amount down and troweled it once then that wouldn't be keyed in. That's my thoughts on it. Back buttering, adhesive sticks to adhesive miles better than it sticks to a porcelain tile that could be dusty.