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adhesives
Adhesive, also known as glue, cement, mucilage, or paste, is any non-metallic substance applied to one or both surfaces of two separate items that binds them together and resists their separation.The use of adhesives offers certain advantages over other binding techniques such as sewing, mechanical fastenings, or welding. These include the ability to bind different materials together, the more efficient distribution of stress across a joint, the cost-effectiveness of an easily mechanized process, and greater flexibility in design. Disadvantages of adhesive use include decreased stability at high temperatures, relative weakness in bonding large objects with a small bonding surface area, and greater difficulty in separating objects during testing. Adhesives are typically organized by the method of adhesion followed by reactive or non-reactive, a term which refers to whether the adhesive chemically reacts in order to harden. Alternatively, they can be organized either by their starting physical phase or whether their raw stock is of natural or synthetic origin.
Adhesives may be found naturally or produced synthetically. The earliest human use of adhesive-like substances was approximately 200,000 years ago, when Neanderthals produced tar from the dry distillation of birch bark for use in binding stone tools to wooden handles. The first references to adhesives in literature appeared in approximately 2000 BC. The Greeks and Romans made great contributions to the development of adhesives. In Europe, glue was not widely used until the period AD 1500–1700. From then until the 1900s increases in adhesive use and discovery were relatively gradual. Only since the last century has the development of synthetic adhesives accelerated rapidly, and innovation in the field continues to the present.
Hi
First post on this forum.
I will soon be tiling my kitchen area floor. Having read through the forums I am now baffled by the range of adhesives available. Several years ago I tiled the hall floor in another house and used bag adhesive which was mixed with water. I remember just...
Hi all,
does anyone know who sells the cheapest bal adhesives ie. whitestar and flexi for floor for a diy er not trade or are they more or less all the same.
Cheers steve.
p.s
in the north east sunderland area
Found this if anybody fancies a go at there footie skills.................dave...
weber building solutions, building solutions for facades, tiling and construction
I have just recently finished a tiling course (as my volume of questions will soon prove) and I am starting my first job tomorrow. It's a 16m2 kitchen floor. I went to get my materials today at Topp's and I was hoping to get SPF adhesive rapid set. They told me that Bal didn't make it. I don't...
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We need a list of some good mail order / online sales for tiles and tile adhesives, do we not?
We need these to be able to gain an extra few quid on your jobs and to be able to offer your customer a custom range of tiles perhaps?
Get listing in here any tile suppliers or adhesives suppliers...
I've been using a mixture recently and find Tile it alls rapid, flexy good. I get it for £13 for a 20kg bag. Any better stuff out there for that price or cheaper?
hi guys! new 2 this but getn used 2 the site now,brill 4 pikn up tips n hints! was reading an earlier thread by darren bout palace adhesive n not use,ing batons! is that right? do u still start from the bottom of the wall n work up? does any1 know who stocks it in glagow?
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In the attached image, very roughly done in paint might I add, you'll see the 4 main flexibility strengths for mainly cement based adhesives, or usually in bags, although not always.
Standard (the first block): These adhesive are the basics, a touch from just sand and cement already mixed for...
Hi people
Has anyone used Palace multiflex rapid set and if so what do you think to it the reason i ask is i need to find a cheaper adh' to try and secure a job but i dont want to compromise on quality of my work if this stuff is crap i have used it once and that was in may and i dont think that...
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