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Discuss help with materials in the Tiling Forum at TilersForums; going to price up a kitchen floor tonight. think they are normal ceramic tiles. would i be ok to use rapid set adh??? do you think it will be ok ...
          
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    going to price up a kitchen floor tonight. think they are normal ceramic tiles. would i be ok to use rapid set adh??? do you think it will be ok to use as this will be the first concrete floor i have put tiles on.. what grout would you recommend. i will be using bal products. or any others recommended. i will be getting them from ctd. also would you prime first
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    Hi Ian, if the flor is dusty then i would prime with Bal SBR mixed to the ratio it states in the instructions. Rapidset should be fine and i would use Bal superflex wide joint grout for the floor.

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    use just normal rapid set and normal floor grout or to be safe use felxible wide joint as turkish says

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    For information on the correct Bal products check out www.powerspeconline.com
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