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Martyn Wilks
First post so be gentle, I am currently tiling my garage floor with Dotti 30 x 30cm porcelain tiles in a matt grey colour.
I have laid 6mm Jakoboard using Ultra proflex SP+ES Standard Set Flexible Adhesive and am laying the Dotti tiles using the same adhesive, the adhesive is put down on the Jakoboard using a 8mm comb and the tiles are back buttered with the same trowel and laid at 90° to the floor comb using a slight twist to ensure as good a coverage as possible.
I have two problems:
1. When ever I lay a tile I get too much adhesive oozing from what will become the grout gap (5mm) - how do I overcome this as it takes longer to clean up all the adhesive than it does to lay the tile, whilst keeping to 100% coverage.
2. The tiles seem to have a slight adhesive haze to them once I have cleaned them over and over again with a damp sponge which doesn't seem to make much of a difference.
I have made a sort of back buttering buddy that certainly helps in buttering the backs of the tiles but still I get too much adhesive oozing.
When I grout I shall be using a washboy.
I have laid 6mm Jakoboard using Ultra proflex SP+ES Standard Set Flexible Adhesive and am laying the Dotti tiles using the same adhesive, the adhesive is put down on the Jakoboard using a 8mm comb and the tiles are back buttered with the same trowel and laid at 90° to the floor comb using a slight twist to ensure as good a coverage as possible.
I have two problems:
1. When ever I lay a tile I get too much adhesive oozing from what will become the grout gap (5mm) - how do I overcome this as it takes longer to clean up all the adhesive than it does to lay the tile, whilst keeping to 100% coverage.
2. The tiles seem to have a slight adhesive haze to them once I have cleaned them over and over again with a damp sponge which doesn't seem to make much of a difference.
I have made a sort of back buttering buddy that certainly helps in buttering the backs of the tiles but still I get too much adhesive oozing.
When I grout I shall be using a washboy.