Sand And Cement As Adhesive?

[assegayer]

in now way at all will i be splurting sand and cement around my house just a purely interesting question as the materials are cheaper aswell and the people doing it in other countries arnt as clever or skilled as you would think

 

[Old Mod]

in now way at all will i be splurting sand and cement around my house just a purely interesting question as the materials are cheaper aswell and the people doing it in other countries arnt as clever or skilled as you would think

Haha u have that the wrong way round my friend.
They're far more skilled than they may appear.
Just because they may not be on a similar academic level, their manual skills are highly developed over many generations.

 

[assegayer]

thats true....like i was having a look at this vid here if your free take a look he seems an excellent tiler View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtqLTn2gdkQ

 

[Italy]

high technology.
I go to bed

 

[White Room]

That looked so painfully slow and the mix seemed so dry, I would have used a plastering tub and mix with an old slow speed belly drill to a semi dry mix.

 

[One Day]

What can I say? Times change, technology moves on. What worked 2000yrs ago for Roman floors would still work today. What wouldn't work today is the time it would take!
Far faster and easier to fix down Ditra. It costs more in materials but less in time.
The places you've observed s&c fixing - it almost certainly wasn't porcelain.

 

[Bill]

I can tile a floor in sand and cement while you 'non belibers' are still waiting 3 weeks for your screed to dry out.............horses for courses.

 

[One Day]

I can tile a floor in sand and cement while you 'non belibers' are still waiting 3 weeks for your screed to dry out.............horses for course.

I'd wait the 3 weeks and go do something else!

 

[assegayer]

I can tile a floor in sand and cement while you 'non belibers' are still waiting 3 weeks for your screed to dry out.............horses for courses.

out of interest how exactly do you do that?

 

[Bill]

out of interest how exactly do you do that?

A bit like that video posted above but quicker and making sure my S&C mix was better!

All this 'self levelling' stuff does not help your tile laying skill.