Which Tile Adhesive Did You Use Most During 2009?
Please vote on the Poll. All answers can be seen by the members.

If you used a brand not showing then please respond with the make.

I'm talking about both cement-based and dispersion. And I'm asking which brand in general did you use the most? It might be due to trust, availability, customer preference, whatever. Just if you totted up the lot you used, which one did you use and buy the most of?

This is for 2009 only, 2008 can be found HERE and mid-2006 to the end of 2007 can be found HERE.

ADDED: If you work for any of the adhesive companies please refrain from voting. I've reduced the Mapie vote count by 3 to make it fair. We don't allow any staff from the firms to vote as we can't allow all firms on the forums due to the sponsorship system. Thanks for understanding.

Custome Building Products, Versabond White, Fortified (other)

pritt stick isn't listed Dan

Originally Posted by GirlRacerRed

pritt stick isn't listed Dan

and I had you down for a Blue Tak girl

orbit or riggles?

mostly butech which is porcelanosa's brand but im lead to believe its a product of bal ...

Overall it would be Biscem but Weber and Mapei not far behind, This is due to availabilty of Biscem over Mapei.
I have tried to get my local dealer to get Mapei but its a no go.

Originally Posted by Sir Ramic

Overall it would be Biscem but Weber and Mapei not far behind, This is due to availabilty of Biscem over Mapei.
I have tried to get my local dealer to get Mapei but its a no go.

Fair enough mate.

this year mostly Benfer with Mapei second

Used to be BAL but way too expensive..i tried mapei and liked it better, so thats my prefered adhesive now and my most used in 2009.

Still Bal for me.........its wot I can get local.

Palace from topps and mapei P9 but have to travel and buy a few bags at a time. May use benfer as it is now being sold localy

Laticrete

Mostly Toppfix which is palace, with Mapei a close second...however, with the new Tile Giant TF sponsorship all white addy will be Mapei. Still cant get the grey cheaper than Topps though unfortunately. Only used powdered gear too.

So far it's looking like the BAL share of the market has somewhat descreased, and Mapei's somewhat increased. Though BAL have 1 vote more than Mapei, but it's too early to give true figures yet. Good news for Mapei it seems.

Maybe due to people going from bal to mapei which appears to be largely based around the expense of BAL and the quality of Mapei shining through?

mainly Ultra again for me this last year

no one using kera koll then, i used the marmorex white rapid the other day seemed pretty good ,pretty shocking that the ardex score is so low it was all i used to use back in the early 90's it is good gear too

Mainly BAL (tubbed) but Toppfix on the cement...Tile Giant still a bit to far away to use daily.. (and there's a tunnel in the way)

Topps Topfix Rapidset / Flexi
and
Bal Blue Star/ Mosaic Fix

Those are my main stickers!

Mostly BAL for me, but I do use Toppfix for floors (including my own). However, I'm really going off BAL GRIP because during the few days of Summer it went off really quickly in the tub. I'm now moving over to Single Pt. flex for walls. Cheers Sean

Palace for me, well that cheapo muck Topps sells as their own.

Tight assed customers being the main reason, though, Bal probably isn't that far behind thinking about it.

found a local distributor that does mapei reciently at £12 a 20 kg bag so its mapei for me too!

I refuse to submit to the cheap Topps pricing and have stuck to Ardex, with Mapei a close second.

some very interesting reading comparisons to be made between the gear used in the U.K. & Oz.
Ardex/BAL/Dunlop there are Ardex/ABA/dunlop here - & sounds like they're having same problems.
we also have Mapei - PCI & Laticrete as international brands (kera koll came & went)with local presence but only Mapei seriously manufacture. We also have a doz. other local Co.s of varying sizes & market share. it is curious that we can all be doing the same trade & yet doing it so differently.
might make an interesting long term topic itself ??

mostly Mapei kerraquick and D1...FOLLOWED CLOSELY BY TOPFIX RAPIDSET AND SONTEX ACRYLIC.

laticrete

Used to be Mapei, but have now switched to Weber, Weber set plus and sp rapid low dust great gear.

mapei keraflex,keraquick and mapeker most of the time so tops for 2009 here.

Webber adhesives
Mapei grouts
Mapei self levelling
Mapei sealants

i see a lot of people hear tell that mapei is great and not expensive. this is good.

bal far to expesnive and not worth all the money extra. it like they think of number and times by 100.

i have pci and sometime weber here onsite. boss buy in on wooden square, a lot of bags. very good and boss tell me it cheap. i like pci much. nice consitency and easy to work