Help!: Kitchen splashbacks

[stuart radley]

Hi can anyone tell me is it best back butter small 100x100 kitchen tiles or trowel up the wall as normal. Thanks Stu

[Wylie]

prime walls and tile, for a simple answer
Stephen

[Wylie]

Been working long hours this week Oops prime first,adhesive onto the walls
quicker
Stephen

[Turkish]

Personal preference mate as long as you get proper coverage, i prefer to comb the wall and just comb the tile in difficult areas

Turkish

[Dave]

It is best to apply the adhesive to the wall to get the best key....but in hard to get at area's just back butter and press in well......

[Fekin]

It is best to apply the adhesive to the wall to get the best key....but in hard to get at area's just back butter and press in well......

Same here

[grumpygrouter]

Only back butter where you can't trowel the wall easily and sometimes if you need to ensure full coverage.

[DS Tiling]

And be careful not to damage the kitchen units with your trowel especially around the extractor.

[Hems]

prime walls and tile, for a simple answer
Stephen

What circumstances dictate priming first ? do you always prime or does it depend on substrate ?

[Wylie]

I would prime to reduce suction on fresh plastered walls,or the walls need scaping down example were old tiles have been removed,wood panels and wood floors
Stephen

[Varley]

Same as most, trowel out on walls and only back butter where the trowel can't get. You'll triple your time by back buttering each 100mm tile.

[Hems]

Thanks wylie, of course i knew that i was just checking !! No its just that there have been times when i have simply rubbed the wall back, say on a painted wall and not primed, then i got to thinking, blimey prehaps i should be priming all the time. Thanks mate, im fresh out of training so forgive me.

[stuart radley]

Thanks to everyone for there advice ...Stu

[Wylie]

Thanks wylie, of course i knew that i was just checking !! No its just that there have been times when i have simply rubbed the wall back, say on a painted wall and not primed, then i got to thinking, blimey prehaps i should be priming all the time. Thanks mate, im fresh out of training so forgive me.

I guessed you knew that and you probably know more than me too
even when primed,OPF is used let me know if there's better
Stephen

[bobbin]

How are you priming mate, I hope not using PVA, you'd be surprised how many people still do!

[Ultimate Tiling]

I asked in my local tile shop the other week what primer he recomended for a job and he just passed me a bottle of PVA.

[bobbin]

I asked in my local tile shop the other week what primer he recomended for a job and he just passed me a bottle of PVA.

So you'll be looking for another local tile shop then, wasn't Bee and Queue was it