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Can a flexible additive be used in any cementitious tile adhesive? The supplier of the adhesive I bought told me that the adhesive is for "rigid" substrates only not for "flexible" substrates like plasterboard, which is where I am installing the tiles. I have heard that wooden floors are regarded as flexible but have not heard this about plasterboard on studs. The plasterboard is in a bathroom on stud walls. Yes, if I push the plasterboard with my hand, where there is no stud, it moves a little. It's 12.5mm thick. I have a wall mounted cabinet with basin but it will be screwed directly into the stud members with local reinforcement for it. The tiles are heavy, though: ceramic 11mm thick 300x600mm. Do I need to worry? | ||||||||||
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If it is a standard rapid set etc....then you can use an additive from the same manufacturer to make it flexible and if you can feel the wall flex then i would use flexible adhesive......you could just take it back and exchange it as well.... | ||
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