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**Dave** · 30-08-2007

tiles cant slide anywhere when you working from bottom up..lol lol.........dave..

**Varley** · 30-08-2007

Good tip Dave, i'll try that one on my next job

ryanbrown · 30-08-2007

I know it can seem like a waste of time messing with battons,
but you can mix your adhesive a little thinner (not too thin of course) when working with battons, safe in the knowledge your tiles arent going to slip.
The advantage being you can then slap the adhesive on faster and its less tiring on the arms.
I havent timed it but could work faster this way.
And if you can re-use your batton all the way around the room and on other jobs - not much cost really.
With this mouting foam tape i find I can bang it on - and if it aint straight I can
knock it off and have another go and its usually still tacky.
In fact I can knock it off the wall quickly and mount it on the next wall straight away without putting more tape on - to carry on around the room.
Probally not a good idea with heavy stuff - but standard ceramic stuff
works ok.
Maybe a glue gun would hold the weight of natural stone. Think how useful that would be holding up a heavy natural mosaic tile around a curving bath panel thats trying to slip!
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Oddly enough you rip it off and re-stick straight away with the same tape I find.
Very tacky stuff.
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thats true - although you can't always work from bottom up and be guaranteed to end on a straight line all the way along a wall with mosacis on a mesh, because you cant vary the gaps and gain space if need be because there all tied together.
Its a bugger.

Fred · 01-09-2007

You can also pin the first row of tiles with nails, I use that method alot.

**devonmark** · 01-09-2007

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Originally Posted by CJ again

Trying a new technique with your sister..........................

faf cj...

supapee · 05-09-2007

Will the hot glue gun method take the weight of a 600x300 porcelain tile??

**Dave** · 05-09-2007

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Originally Posted by supapee

Will the hot glue gun method take the weight of a 600x300 porcelain tile??

With the help of your adhesive bed it should.......dave.....

supapee · 05-09-2007

aaahhhh, yes, the adhesive.... Knew I was going wrong sopmewhere!!
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If you use the glue gun, how do you take the batons down?

**Dave** · 05-09-2007

juust a quick knock with a hammer..doh.........dave....lol lol lol...

**Varley** · 05-09-2007

use a chisel or the claw on a hammer and it should just pop of, just get something down behind it and apply a little leverage. Make sure the chisel/hammer gets wedged in underneath the baton, not the top where the tiles are resting on it or you could damage a tile.

groucho · 05-09-2007

Battons? never used them I was always told to use cardboard from the box of tiles. you can fold to it to what ever thickness. Tile striaghtdown fold card make level and the cardboard crushes when you push down simple.

supapee · 06-09-2007

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Originally Posted by dhceramics

juust a quick knock with a hammer..doh.........dave....lol lol lol...

thanks.....

I asked becasue I thought that the adhesion between the surface and the glue might be strong enough to remove some of the plaster/tanking if I just gave it a whack, and that I might need to slide sommat in between....

Was always that there is no such thing as a stupid question!!