Who invented tile adhesive

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

As above ? and when also who invented the notched trowel?

 

[Spud]

there was a patent for tile adhesive back in the 30s i think from the company that eventually turned into johnsons tiles who eventually set up bal this was called a mastic adhesive , the first cement based tile adhesives were marketed in the 1950s I believe not sure who but i think it mat have been laticrete

 

[Dougs Third Go]

whoever started sticking tiles to walls/floors first,,greeks, romans??

 

[John Benton]

whoever started sticking tiles to walls/floors first,,greeks, romans??

Phil Hobson??

 

[Time's Ran Out]

BAL TAD was the first ready mixed tile adhesive that I used in the early 1970s. Until then we had used sand and cement.
Looking up this on Google it tells me that it was introduced in 1963 however there were others around in the 1950s but without the technical support of the industry.


As for the notched trowel - as an apprentice, the very first job I did was to take a plasterers float and a round file and cut the teeth for my 'notched trowel'.

 

[Andy Allen]

BAL TAD was the first ready mixed tile adhesive that I used in the early 1970s. Until then we had used sand and cement.
Looking up this on Google it tells me that it was introduced in 1963 however there were others around in the 1950s but without the technical support of the industry.


As for the notched trowel - as an apprentice, the very first job I did was to take a plasterers float and a round file and cut the teeth for my 'notched trowel'.

Do you remember working alongside the romans tj..:sofahide: lol

 

[afright]

When I first started,the tubbed adhesive was Bal tad ,just as Timeless but before that the old tilers used a Tinned adhesive called Richafix but they had a lot of failures with the stuff went back on many a job in the 70s putting it right,it was a bit like evostik but a dark brown colour,didnt start using powder until about 77 that was Bal cem no rapid then

 

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

It something that was playing on my mind as the americans on the geeks forum were all saying Laticrete (American company ) had invented it , and the yanks get on my t8ts a Bit, and i could only remember Bal cem, when we started using Adhesive instead of sand and cement..Americans are very good at self -promotion i'am finding -out lol.

 

[John Benton]

Do you remember working alongside the romans tj..:sofahide: lol

TJs first job was a small washpool for Julius Caesar and it progressed from there

 

[One Day]

See "History"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laticrete_International,_Inc.

 

[Time's Ran Out]

TJs first job was a small washpool for Julius Caesar and it progressed from there

You are pretty close - I'am actually based in Wallsend, a suburb of Newcastle, and as its name suggests its the start/end of Hadrians Wall. We have here Segadunum which was a fort and buildings including baths that the Emperor Hadrian had built as the northern most outpost of the Roman Empire! So if I had been lucky enough to be a tiler in 55AD no doubt I'd have received my 2heckles a day pay for fixing mosaic to someone's bath!!

 

[John Benton]

You are pretty close - I'am actually based in Wallsend, a suburb of Newcastle, and as its name suggests its the start/end of Hadrians Wall. We have here Segadunum which was a fort and buildings including baths that the Emperor Hadrian had built as the northern most outpost of the Roman Empire! So if I had been lucky enough to be a tiler in 55AD no doubt I'd have received my 2heckles a day pay for fixing mosaic to someone's bath!!

I wasn't joking TJ. It was said in all seriousness. Just got the dates a little out :sofahide:

 

[jamespaul]

first I used was Richafix back in 1965 then bal tad (in 5 gallon drums with a free trowel )