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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. I have a shower area to be tiled. Tiles roughly 400mm x 200mm with bal adhesives and grouts. Walls prepped with moisture board and tanked. It is approximately 6.5m2. The job is in Ealing. If anyone is keen please contact me.
Regards Lee
Does anybody use lightweight adhesives .
Is all a bit of hype considering most will improve the background weight carrying capacity anyway.
Are they better to handle etc .
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Right my tile shop is stocking ak20 . Now because of the sheer volume of a bag of this and fluid what buckets are using to mix in . I used a plasterers bucket but would of liked it a little larger . Also is anybody using isomat grouts if so what are they like do they compare to anything .
Arrrgggh my head has gone today :mad:
Customer got given Palace grout (which I've never used before) and I've spent all day trying to use it on some polished porcelain that I've left 2mm for joint on.. I have tried every way possible to get a full joint, to no avail . Anyone has issues with...
What adhesives is everyone using for feature walls of split face tiles particularly when it’s behind a wood burner.
Would standard flexible adhesive be suitable as having concerns regarding the radiant heat
Got some samples today to try. Kerakoll bio gel no limits white and Kerakoll fugabella white grout and silicone. If I like then I can get a constant supply so hope it's as good as I've heard and read!
With so many types of adhesives now on the market, I was wondering why some are suitable for fixing ceramic and quarry floor tiles but not porcelain floor tiles? When I was fixing tiles a few years back I would use CTF, Ardurit x7 and Biscem or sand and cement screed with cement dust to fix...
(Excuse my mistakes, English isn't my first language)
Moved to Scotland recently, I work in the oil industry. Not a great place to be these days, but am enjoying the cheaper petrol.
I just ripped up all the shower floor tiles in my new house (a small remodelled stone barn) because the grout...
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Anyone use or used it? I've been using it today it's the first time I've ever even seen it, I thought it was American. Pretty nice to use, rapid set flexible s1, but wasn't all that rapid really
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Could anyone recommend a 100% waterproof cement based tile adhesive that is powder form and can be mixed only with water prior to application.
Does a product like this exist here in the UK?
Thanks
Madfuller
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