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Is mastic out of favor?
A few years ago some of the plumbing had to be replaced in the bathroom
of the house I grew up in, and part of this was to remove some mosaic tiles that were put down about 1974 using a mastic. Man, getting those babies up was a great deal of hard work, and now that ceramic tile has entered a project of my own, I find everyone pushing thinset. Is it really better? If there were a bit of floor flex, wouldn't a plastic mastic tend not to crack as much as a thinset cement? And with a bit of mastic coming up between the tiles, wouldn't it keep water from the plywood (yes, right on the plwood!), rather than continuing to suck it down as a cement would after going through the grout? Now the floor was 3/4" diagonal T&G with 5/8" plywood, so perhaps flexing wasn't all that much a problem (I've forgotten the exact joist spacing & depth, but 2x10 16" OC seems to stick). Still, with all the effort needed to remove these tiles, why's everybody now down on plastic mastic? |
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