The Natural Philosopher wrote:


My experience of Wickes ready mixed products is varied. Their plaster
and filler seem to be of the lightweight type, which makes them cheap
and easy to use, but they're not particularly "sticky" IYSWIM. I
wonder if their adhesive is just a variation on their other tub
products. A wall tile should become immovable after about 5 minutes, and
you
know the adhesive has bitten. Once that happens I've never had one
subsequently fall off. The Wickes stuff has obviously not been able
to cope with the porosity of the wall, which is a pretty poor show
for a tile adhesive.

Yep. Of course it probably says 'seal wall with PVA first', which then
costs more than a decent adhesive would've in the first place..and
takes twice as long.

Costs more? PVA is cheap as chips & you dilute it before use anyway. Only
take minutes to brush over a wall - OK you have to wait while it dries, but
if you PVA first you get around that.

Might cost a few pennies extra.

I use Wickes tile adhesive all the time & allways PVA first - never had a
problem.


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