Levelling systems & when to use them - Tile Advice

[James De]

Did you back butter the tiles? Or back trowel them? What size tiles are we talking? Which adhesive?

Weber standard set normal, 400 x 150.. no didn’t back butter/trowel them.

 

[Waluigi]

I back butter everything.

 

[James De]

I back butter everything.

Wasn’t taught to do that in the course.. :/ will do that going forward

 

[Spare Tool]

Weber standard set normal, 400 x 150.. no didn’t back butter/trowel them.

Thats your problem, also too small a notched trowel, wouldn't use less than 10mm with clips..

 

[Waluigi]

........apart from mosaics

I’m sure we had the conversation about back buttering. What about the 120 x 60 tiles you installed?

 

[James De]

........apart from mosaics

I’m sure we had the conversation about back buttering. What about the 120 x 60 tiles you installed?

Yup, def back buttered those

 

[James De]

........apart from mosaics

I’m sure we had the conversation about back buttering. What about the 120 x 60 tiles you installed?

 

[LM]

James no matter what tile you’re fitting you should be constantly checking coverage to ensure it’s good. Don’t be afraid to use larger notches to achieve this. If the tile and the background mean you need a 12mm notch then so be it and get into the habit of back buttering all tiles it’ll become second nature to you and you’ll become so quick at it that it won’t take any real time out of your day.
Bin those clips and get yourself some of the many variation of flat based clips that are out there.

 

[LM]

Also do yourself a favour and work with quality adhesives that have good open time and notch’s collapse easy on. They’ll work out cheaper in the long run with no failures.

 

[Waluigi]

Yes deffo pull a tile off from time to time, you’re aiming to see lots of peaks of adhesive and no substrate showing. I’m sure some people have a pic of what it should look like. Why on Earth they didn’t teach you this is beyond me.

 

[James De]

Also do yourself a favour and work with quality adhesives that have good open time and notch’s collapse easy on. They’ll work out cheaper in the long run with no failures.

Yeah I’m using the flat Tile Rite ones, it was just that 1 wall in the room I used them on.

Is Weber not a decent brand then, I was told it was the best of the bunch??? Yeah I hear you loud and clear on the notch sizes.. I def think I should have used a bigger trowel

 

[James De]

Yes deffo pull a tile off from time to time, you’re aiming to see lots of peaks of adhesive and no substrate showing. I’m sure some people have a pic of what it should look like. Why on Earth they didn’t teach you this is beyond me.

Maybe this is a stupid question but I’ll ask anyway... so when I do a random check on a tile, do I scrape the addy off the tile and wall and re-trowel it? Or just stick the tile back on?

 

[Waluigi]

stick it back on......

 

[Waluigi]

Unless the adhesive oozes out somewhere. Make a judgement

 

[LM]

Nothing wrong with Weber I missed that part.
What course did you attend James?