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Adhesive, also known as glue, cement, mucilage, or paste, is any non-metallic substance applied to one or both surfaces of two separate items that binds them together and resists their separation.The use of adhesives offers certain advantages over other binding techniques such as sewing, mechanical fastenings, or welding. These include the ability to bind different materials together, the more efficient distribution of stress across a joint, the cost-effectiveness of an easily mechanized process, and greater flexibility in design. Disadvantages of adhesive use include decreased stability at high temperatures, relative weakness in bonding large objects with a small bonding surface area, and greater difficulty in separating objects during testing. Adhesives are typically organized by the method of adhesion followed by reactive or non-reactive, a term which refers to whether the adhesive chemically reacts in order to harden. Alternatively, they can be organized either by their starting physical phase or whether their raw stock is of natural or synthetic origin.
Adhesives may be found naturally or produced synthetically. The earliest human use of adhesive-like substances was approximately 200,000 years ago, when Neanderthals produced tar from the dry distillation of birch bark for use in binding stone tools to wooden handles. The first references to adhesives in literature appeared in approximately 2000 BC. The Greeks and Romans made great contributions to the development of adhesives. In Europe, glue was not widely used until the period AD 1500–1700. From then until the 1900s increases in adhesive use and discovery were relatively gradual. Only since the last century has the development of synthetic adhesives accelerated rapidly, and innovation in the field continues to the present.
I have a small 2br on slab 1950’s originally had 9” vinyl tiles and dark brown/ black adhesive. After the tiles were removed the abaters softened/dissolved the glue and mopped and wiped up what they could. I scrub brushed and mopped to clear. The slab is discolored and retains imprints in the...
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I'm a DIYer putting down a loose UFH cable in my kitchen. I've laid it out and used a glue gun to fix the cable to the Wedi board. It occurred to me though.. once the cable is encased in SLC, those glue globules are going to be liquified each time the cable heats...
Hi, I've decided to have a go at re-tiling my bathroom.
Unfortunately, one of the walls has an asbestos board. I know ideally I'd get someone to remove it safely, but I simply don't have the £££.
So I was considering overboarding it with a 6mm tile backer board.
I don't really want to put...
Hello. What's the best to remove carpet glue from a concret slab ? I was thinking to buy a concret grinder , is this the best way ? If yes, which one are you guys using ? Thanks !
I want to install this marble pencil trim ON TOP of the existing shower floor tile.
Can I use an adhesive like liquid nails to do this or will it not form a waterproof bond correctly?
Just looking for a fast and easy way.
Thanks!
HI,
Excuse the length and new thread, but it reads super fast. I could use some advice. There are a few hundred tiles to fix... not all of them...
This project has been delayed for years and much has been put into it.. and now this.
Why give in now. I plan on fixing the tiles I have not...
Hi all I am thinking of getting a Mediawall built with split face tiles on each side. Very similar to this photo without the cill at the bottom.
My question is I have looked online and found these on sale
I have also been to my local tile shop and managed to get a sample and they're...
Hi all, this is my first post on here although in attempting to Google answers to my questions I have come across several threads on this forum already which were really helpful. So now I thought it'd help to get advice specific to my situation...so here goes. These are all in relation to an...
Hi all,
Is there an easy way of removing the protective glue on every tile when you first get them out of the packet? I seem to be wasting loads of time picking / rubbing it off.
Thanks
Edd
I don't know if you call it 'hardboard' in the USA but that's what we call it here: a shiny on one side brown stuff made of compressed something or other. Very cheap.
Used on ceilings and generally painted over. This time I've found a place where they glued those very light foam plastic...
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Got to a job this morning. Customer has taken up old vynal tiles.
The glue under them is sticky to the point I have never seen before. It had torn apart my knee pads and the soul or my work shoes (granted they are old).
Razor blades are not making a dent in it.
Any ideas anyone...
Where do you all buy your glue sticks for sticking down under floor heating wires.
I usually get mine in screw fix but wanted something with a shorter open time at possibly a better price
"Sealing" with PVA before tiling - DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME by Dan posted Feb 7, 2017 at 10:14 PM
Not sure how to work this forum, will this work?
Old but comedy gold.
Hi.
I am using a green plasterboard for my bathroom walls to tile onto.
I used dot and dab mix in my last house but what I want to know is if it is ok to use expanding foam type glue?
I have seen it done on plasterboard but not sure if its strong enough for 1) tiling onto or 2) suitable for...
Hi all, first time user. I'm in need of a bit of advice and hope someone can help. I'm about to tile a kitchen floor (which is concrete) with 300 x 300 quartz tiles. When the kitchen fitter was working in there, he decided to coat the floor with pva to make it easier for him to clean up the dust...
Hi,
could do with some advice on tiling over a large area that had carpet tiles that have been removed but the glue still remains and after using a scabbling machine, we still cant remove the glue.
I'm a bit sceptical of self levelling the area in case it doesn't adhere properly to the glue...
I've got an access panel with magnets on each corner.
I need to glue galvanised steel corner brackets to the back of the porcelain tile that covers it.
Tried gorilla glue on a test piece, but it pulled off quite easily.
Does anyone know of a glue that will work?
Hi,
Im going to pull up a lino floor on a bungalow concrete floor, its one of those gritty council wet room ones. its going to leave a glue residue on there, is there anything i can do to either remove this or something i can coat it with to make it ok to tile? havnt took it up yet tho, it was...
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