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Actually I exchanged three emails with him in total, His advice amounts to (and is stated on his website) that you take the advice of the manufacturers as they have spent alot of time and money investing in the said products etc etc.... I then pointed out that the manufacturers advice clearly...

Ply your floor and do all strengthening work, then tile the walls first and the floor last. You are then not worrying about dropping things onto a finished surface, after all you wouldn't fit a new carpet before painting the walls....

The title says Acrylic, anything more specific than that we probably wouldn't understand as it'll be Austrailian. Or at least Austrailian named.

Phone the paint manufacturer, they are in the best position to advise you of a product to use.

I recieved a reply today from John Schmitt, a reasonable amount of which went over my head I have to admit, I've asked for a reply in more laymans terms and some answers to specific questions as most of it was very general and non specific. I've also asked him if I can repost our conversation...

Technically I don't know, I'm not a chemist so can not give a difinitive answer to that. My opinion, it's probably ok, I just tend to stick with whatever the manufacturer specifies so I have a guarantee. Many of the ready mixed adhesives claim to be self priming, I'm also no expert on...

In an ideal world you need to remove all of this, but we don't live in an ideal world. If it's stuck so hard that you can't get it up then it's unlikely it's going to go anywhere. You can probably stick right over it. (although without actually seeing it I can never be definate). If...

I actually don't expect to recieve a reply from this guy, but I'm genuinely interested to hear what He says. At the risk of appearing to insert a blatant plug, this is what I do if any of you were at all curious. www.atstone.co.uk

Your existing floor is likely to be water resistant chipboard. First thing is to secure this to the joists buy screwing. You then need to reinforce this by either fitting 12mm wbp plywood screwed every 200mm or aquapanel glued and screwed (glued with rapidset flexible adhesive)...

This topic has reached it's natural conclusion, it's a forum where we can have a discussion from each persons point of view, the readers can make up their own minds from the conversation thread. empip's link is interesting, it's the third time someone has linked that to me during similar...

You could be wholly right, and without a breakdown of chemicals for each product we can only assume what the full make up of each product is. Now I doubt any of us are qualified chemists so we can't say with any authority that any one product is better than another, based on that, we...

Joe's right here, really anything other than tiling this will highlight the very problem your trying to solve. Buy the tiles and cut them in, it will be worth it.

Errr..here .....

Step back a moment and take stock of your last statement. I have not tired the product you are so fond of, because I have no reason to as clearly previously stated. You then follow this with an enourmuos generalisation that all other products are based on PVA, and you accuse me of spouting...

You're obviously happy with your choice of primer, and as I've already mentioned, your most welcome to use it, I disagree with that choice for reasons previously stated. Lets just put that aside for one moment and consider this:- The manufacturer makes a product for use as a primer, if...

Not really, you should pull it up and tile directly onto what is probably concrete after screeding it with self leveller. This will also have the added benefit of giving no increase in floor height.

I've never drunk PVA either but I don't need to try it to know it's not very nice. Will we resort to blowing rasberries soon? :wink:

Been tiling for 15 years, orignally used Ardex only, but now use either BAL or Ardex, never used anything else.

I've assumed in my last post that you understand the difference between a slurry primer and a standard primer, this might be where your getting confused.

Ok you've totally missed the point of the post. BAL SBR,is based on PVA, it's a slurry primer it is fundamentally PVA with water based polymers added which alter the liquid so much that they are no longer PVA and are renamed as a result to SBR. There is a product made called PVA...