Quartz floor tile sealing - Tile Advice

[Graham55]

Hi,
First post here. My name is Graham and I'm widening my DIY skills on my house in Kent.

I have tiled the kitchen walls with a mirrored Quartz tile from a popular tile chain. I bought the adhesive and grout from them as they recommended. We have since decided to replace the slate floor tiles with a similar Quartz tile.

My question is this:-
It was suggested I would need to put an additive into the adhesive (diluted with the water) to stop the tiles soaking up the water and bowing and also a sealer before grouting (black tile / white grout). All of which add a considerable amount to the cost. Is it possible to seal the backs and cut edges of the tile with something before fitting, like a PVA or similar, or just suck it up and pay the £100+ for the chemicals???

Graham

 

[One Day]

Easy answer Graham and I think you know it!
Suck it up!

Adhesive-wise you could use a low water adhesive like BAL Stone and Tile PTB, which is a lot cheaper than a bag and bottle combination. Call BAL technical line to check suitability though - I'm 99% certain it will be fine.

Sealant, I would contact Universeal (google them) for advice. If you get the sealing wrong, you will ruin the tiles.

PVA?! No place in tiling - ever. Forget PVA!

 

[Old Mod]

Hi and welcome to the forum Graham.

Easy answer Graham and I think you know it!
Suck it up!

Adhesive-wise you could use a low water adhesive like BAL Stone and Tile PTB, which is a lot cheaper than a bag and bottle combination. Call BAL technical line to check suitability though - I'm 99% certain it will be fine.

Sealant, I would contact Universeal (google them) for advice. If you get the sealing wrong, you will ruin the tiles.

PVA?! No place in tiling - ever. Forget PVA!

Thankfully you beat me to it Mark as above
Any under floor heating?
Isomats AK megarapid bottle and bag is a slow set with very high yield, which makes it very cost effective.

 

[Graham55]

No underfloor heating

Sucking it up!!!!!

Thanks chaps....

It just occurred to me that it was worth checking with the 'guys in the know' rather than accepting all the "you'll need one of these" up sells!!

I'll get all the bits from the same place so I know they are compatible and if not I can go back!!

Thanks again, I'll no doubt have further questions soon.

Graham

 

[Old Mod]

It was suggested I would need to put an additive into the adhesive (diluted with the water) to stop the tiles soaking up the water and bowing and also a sealer before grouting

Graham

Be curious to know what they're telling you before you buy Graham.

 

[Tile Shop]

Bal's advise is that PTB Stone and tile which normally only needs 4 litres of water, for quartz, sub 1 litre of water with 1 litre of AD1.

So one bag to 3l water and 1l admix.

 

[Flintstone]

Or save money and make life a bit easier and use tilemaster ultimate

 

[J Sid]

Or save money and make life a bit easier and use tilemaster ultimate

you on there payroll now Andrew?

 

[Flintstone]

I should be !