I have just tiled my bathroom using B&Q's own premixed adhesive/grout for bout £18 a pot.
I also built a small 3ft square "plinth" behind the sink - something to screw the sink to and forming a three inch deep "shelf" bhind the sink for the wife to put her soap on - us men don't use soap!
Anyway, the front of this plinth is made of marine ply, and I tiled it last night for the plumber coming round today to plumb in the sink. Thing is that the tiles are just falling off the marine ply really easily - okay I had to pull them a little. But this is after 12hrs, I'd have though the adhesive would have been dry by now?
The adhesive behind the tiles can still be scraped off like some kind of dry powder/paste. Kind of like it is when used on plasterboard after about 5 minutes.
My question is will this eventually dry and hold my tiles firm, or should I use some other adhesive for marine ply?
The ply isn't flexing at all (it's 12mm thick and it's vertical so there's not any flexing stress on it)
Interestingly, the tiles are ALSO not sticking to the top or side of the plinth, which are just the bare CLS timber (2x3's) - I plasterboarded ONE edge of the plinth as it's next to the bath - those tiles are absolutely solid.
any ideas?
Best regards
guy
I also built a small 3ft square "plinth" behind the sink - something to screw the sink to and forming a three inch deep "shelf" bhind the sink for the wife to put her soap on - us men don't use soap!
Anyway, the front of this plinth is made of marine ply, and I tiled it last night for the plumber coming round today to plumb in the sink. Thing is that the tiles are just falling off the marine ply really easily - okay I had to pull them a little. But this is after 12hrs, I'd have though the adhesive would have been dry by now?
The adhesive behind the tiles can still be scraped off like some kind of dry powder/paste. Kind of like it is when used on plasterboard after about 5 minutes.
My question is will this eventually dry and hold my tiles firm, or should I use some other adhesive for marine ply?
The ply isn't flexing at all (it's 12mm thick and it's vertical so there's not any flexing stress on it)
Interestingly, the tiles are ALSO not sticking to the top or side of the plinth, which are just the bare CLS timber (2x3's) - I plasterboarded ONE edge of the plinth as it's next to the bath - those tiles are absolutely solid.
any ideas?
Best regards
guy