I was talking with a tiler today, he says he's used plaster as a tile
adhesive before. He used thistle, plastered the wall, and reckoned he
then had about 2 hours to place the tiles straight onto the plaster,
and it worked fine. Looks like we have a good candidate for an
unproven but probably viable low cost tile adhesive.


NT

On 22 Aug, 20:37, NT wrote:
I was talking with a tiler today, he says he's used plaster as a tile
adhesive before. He used thistle, plastered the wall, and reckoned he
then had about 2 hours to place the tiles straight onto the plaster,
and it worked fine. Looks like we have a good candidate for an
unproven but probably viable low cost tile adhesive.

NT

Was he wearing chaps and spurs?

On Aug 23, 8:24*pm, Bolted wrote:
On 22 Aug, 20:37, NT wrote:

I was talking with a tiler today, he says he's used plaster as a tile
adhesive before. He used thistle, plastered the wall, and reckoned he
then had about 2 hours to place the tiles straight onto the plaster,
and it worked fine. Looks like we have a good candidate for an
unproven but probably viable low cost tile adhesive.

NT

Was he wearing chaps and spurs?

he reckons it worked fine.


NT

NT coughed up some electrons that declared:

On Aug 23, 8:24*pm, Bolted wrote:
On 22 Aug, 20:37, NT wrote:

I was talking with a tiler today, he says he's used plaster as a tile
adhesive before. He used thistle, plastered the wall, and reckoned he
then had about 2 hours to place the tiles straight onto the plaster,
and it worked fine. Looks like we have a good candidate for an
unproven but probably viable low cost tile adhesive.

NT

Was he wearing chaps and spurs?

he reckons it worked fine.


NT

I wonder if it's that much different to the old way of mounting tiles direct
on some sort of render mix - well, something that looked like sand and
cement...

OK - gypsum is not so water stable. But neither's plasterboard and people
stick tiles on that.

Can't help feeling it would be easier to use tile adhesive - just in having
more than the claimed 2 hours working time - wonder what he does if he gets
behind schedule and the plaster is going off.

On Aug 24, 12:17*am, Tim S wrote:
NT coughed up some electrons that declared:



On Aug 23, 8:24*pm, Bolted wrote:
On 22 Aug, 20:37, NT wrote:

I was talking with a tiler today, he says he's used plaster as a tile
adhesive before. He used thistle, plastered the wall, and reckoned he
then had about 2 hours to place the tiles straight onto the plaster,
and it worked fine. Looks like we have a good candidate for an
unproven but probably viable low cost tile adhesive.

NT

Was he wearing chaps and spurs?

he reckons it worked fine.

NT

I wonder if it's that much different to the old way of mounting tiles direct
on some sort of render mix - well, something that looked like sand and
cement...

OK - gypsum is not so water stable. But neither's plasterboard and people
stick tiles on that.

Can't help feeling it would be easier to use tile adhesive - just in having
more than the claimed 2 hours working time - wonder what he does if he gets
behind schedule and the plaster is going off.

I guess if that happened he could resort to using tile adhesive for
the rest, or a light smear of fresh plaster


NT