Which Tile Adhesive Did You Use Most During 2010?

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 2010 only,2009 can be found HERE ..... 2008 can be found HERE and mid-2006 to the end of 2007 can be found HERE.

Butech from porcelanosa. Good quality, good price

Sadly Mapei is still hard to find around here...or should i say hard to get at a reasonable price. I can get it from my main dealer but its on 3 day order. I do insist on Mapei adhesives for certain jobs and substrates though.

Nicobond Rapidflex, followed closely by Larsen's standard set. My two favourite addy's. Lost count of how many pallets of the stuff I've used this year.

Granfix for me but thats only because I was getting fliers thru to buy one get one free....

But do like the stuff, Benfer and Toppfix as well

Toppfix is palace..

bal for me

Nicobond Rapidflex along with their yellow readymix. also used Ardex X77

Originally Posted by Sir Ramic

Sadly Mapei is still hard to find around here...or should i say hard to get at a reasonable price. I can get it from my main dealer but its on 3 day order. I do insist on Mapei adhesives for certain jobs and substrates though.

You surprise me there Neale, dont they have a warehouse in Dudley? I used to buy it by the pallet when I did all of the Fitness First clubs in the Midlands.

benferleaderflex, benferflex rapido blanco and benferflex c2 s1 blanco std set. no tubbed

Ultra for me, mainly as it's just about all we get round here. But it's decent stuff to use and never had any probs with it.

Sovereign Porcelflex for floors and BAL SPF for walls - more floors than walls, so its a Sovereign vote for me

Granfix for me at the moment it's been very good stuff but i'm going to try something else in the near future

Ardex , x77, bisecm stonefix , mapei ultracolor

Laticrete

Im mainly an Ardex X7R girl, or X77 depending on job. For mosaics I use Mapei P10. Has anyone else noticed that the X7R white is easier to use than the grey? The grey goes off so much quicker in the pot than the white does.

missyT

Mapei for me

I've been going to as shop for years that supplies Ardex & Webber. The director left recently and opened his own shop and has Webber. Webber set for porcelain as slow set at xxxxx a 20 KG bag, flexi at xxxxx I can't go wrong. Lovely stuff.

Mapei,then I can leave the job with no worries or second guessing,their Tech line is second to none,they would probably walk you through a job if you wanted them to.

First year on the tools and i used to buy BAL throughout, simply because thats what i used when training. But, got to be honest i only use Topps (ie Palace) now which i think is just as good and cheaper. I predict Mapei will win this poll which will prove that ill have to try it sooner or later..

It's not about winning..?.. it is just to see what members used most during this year, we have this every year.

Ardex and Bal for me

Love Mapei but used mostly weber low dust spf this year, good price for bulk buys.

Mapei bagged adhesive, for everything.

Originally Posted by Dave

Which Tile Adhesive Did You Use Most During 2010?

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

Wot about Gypsum Based.......(you knew I would Dave)

Originally Posted by Ajax123

Wot about Gypsum Based.......(you knew I would Dave)

Not really used much in 2010 Al.. maybe one for 2011's thread hey..

Well, so far it seems that BAL's old market dominance has dwindled somewhat. And Mapei certainly have the most. In 2006/7 BAL had a massive 42% of the votes (by the way, Mapei sponsored us back then too, we just had BAL reps on here doing their usual sales push) they now so far only have 10%, with Mapei having nearly 30%.

Please vote if you haven't already.

mapei keraquik mostly and some weber also no tubbed at all

mostly webber for me but on problem floors its got to be mapei kerraquick, as is 50% more expensive round here

weber is 1st choice for me but tile company i deal with sell bondmaster.decent stuff but prefer weber