applying adhesive methods?

[Pro-spec]

alot of tiles i knock off reveal that they have been fixed to the wall with blobs of adhesive to the back of the tile instead of the adhesive being spread and notches on the wall.

do people use this as an alternative to notching permanent or is it only done when say walls are out etc?
what's the usual method? 4 blobs each corner and 1 in middle?

whats the dis/ advantages of this?


I did blob method on a floor once which was onto under tile heating wires , and then just made sure i squeezed plenty of grout in the joints.

 

[Drastik Lee]

NOOOOOOO dont ever dot and dab especially on floors as you get heavy traffic and there more prone to cracking the british standard code of practice for fixing wall and floor tiles offers guidance on how tiles should be fixed better of spreading wall/Floor then if uneven buttering up till level imo

 

[Pro-spec]

lol ok i wont do it again, to be fair i did dot n dab the tiles in a way that when i pushed them firmly down the adhesive would spread evenly covering all of the tile. i just didnt want to risk damaging the wires.

 

[Drastik Lee]

If you would have put a SLC down first you wouldnt have needed to dot & dab

 

[doug boardley]

only people that don't know how to tile properly use the dot and dab method.

 

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

i wonder how many spot fix tile jobs there are in the uk ?and what percentage of new tile/stone installations are spot fix still today, and what the success rate of them would be .......i have pulled lots of spot fix Bathrooms,floors,kitchens to pieces that are only being changed because of updating,and have served there purpose well, i'am not condoning the spot fix method ,but BS standards are only recommendations ,i think they should be Law now ! well european standards

 

[Muse2k8]

What I usually do after putting in blobs and sticking in place (just start with full tile in corner it's so easy) is use a lump hammer to even them out. Usually if I'm using stone I don't bother to seal them... Takes too much effort.

Did this great job last week. White marble and red grout. Just used an icing bag to put the grout in then wet a cloth and gave it a wipe to clean. Easy.

Didn't bother with silicone either. Just butted up the corners at the wall etc. nice solid mdf wall and a good 6mm chipboard floor.

 

[Alan M]

What I usually do after putting in blobs and sticking in place (just start with full tile in corner it's so easy) is use a lump hammer to even them out. Usually if I'm using stone I don't bother to seal them... Takes too much effort.

Did this great job last week. White marble and red grout. Just used an icing bag to put the grout in then wet a cloth and gave it a wipe to clean. Easy.

Didn't bother with silicone either. Just butted up the corners at the wall etc. nice solid mdf wall and a good 6mm chipboard floor.

:lol::lol:

 

[Pro-spec]

yea that's pretty much what i did apart from i used dri wall adhesive on ceramic floor tiles, worked a treat.

 

[White Room]

What I usually do after putting in blobs and sticking in place (just start with full tile in corner it's so easy) is use a lump hammer to even them out. Usually if I'm using stone I don't bother to seal them... Takes too much effort.

Did this great job last week. White marble and red grout. Just used an icing bag to put the grout in then wet a cloth and gave it a wipe to clean. Easy.

Didn't bother with silicone either. Just butted up the corners at the wall etc. nice solid mdf wall and a good 6mm chipboard floor.

Quality:lol::lol: