Plaster tile adhesive
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 |
Plaster tile adhesive
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? |
Plaster tile adhesive
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 |
Plaster tile adhesive
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. |
Plaster tile adhesive
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 |
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