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Default Kitchen Tiling - which adhesive for a novice

Hoping to tile my kitchen splash back this weekend and was wondering what adhesive would be best to use.

I'm a novice and would prefer ready mixed.
Screwfix do a decent range of Dunlop adhesives, are these any good.

Any help would be great.

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Not too sure on the Dunlop range mate, bit I tiled my kitchen this weekend and I used the BAL Blue Star which is a ready mix and very easy to use.
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What tiles are you fitting and what are the walls like/made of?

Dunlop adhesives are adequate for a splashback if it is just general ceramics and not too large a format. Dunlop owned by BAL incidently!

Go for the waterproof one if you want to be doubly sure, but as Sean 384 says, BAL blue star would be fine also.

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just 150x150mm ceramic tiles. Walls are plaster.
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Any general purpose water resistant adhesive should suffive, you may want to consider priming the plaster as well though it wouldn't really be neccessary with the BAL stuff.

Here is a bit of info from the Dunlop website

http://www.bal-adhesives.co.uk/dunlo...0BATHROOMS.pdf

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