Tiling me sister's bathroom - like an idiot!
She has a wall freshly plasterboarded and skimmed [ though I'd have preferred he hadn't skimmed as it's all over the place thickness wise! ].
I've primed it with the Bal acrylic stuff 1:1 with water [ as it says on the bottle ] & let it dry!
I'm using Bal Grip premixed in a bucket stuff.
I'm troweling that on the wall a 6mm toothed trowel and pressing the tiles on with a bit of a twist.
The adhesive sticks to the wall but the tiles fall off without even a track where the adhesive should have stuck!
9 out of 3 rows of 10 came away - not the last 9 so the adhesive drying on the wall can't be blamed....
I buttered the tiles before replacing to make sure the stuff's stuck.
A new bucket of Grip seems to be a bit wetter & have more air whipped into it....
Is it the Grip in the first bucket, the tiles, my technique, the sealed wall still drawing too much moisture before I get the tiles on.....
Thoughts please!
She has a wall freshly plasterboarded and skimmed [ though I'd have preferred he hadn't skimmed as it's all over the place thickness wise! ].
I've primed it with the Bal acrylic stuff 1:1 with water [ as it says on the bottle ] & let it dry!
I'm using Bal Grip premixed in a bucket stuff.
I'm troweling that on the wall a 6mm toothed trowel and pressing the tiles on with a bit of a twist.
The adhesive sticks to the wall but the tiles fall off without even a track where the adhesive should have stuck!
9 out of 3 rows of 10 came away - not the last 9 so the adhesive drying on the wall can't be blamed....
I buttered the tiles before replacing to make sure the stuff's stuck.
A new bucket of Grip seems to be a bit wetter & have more air whipped into it....
Is it the Grip in the first bucket, the tiles, my technique, the sealed wall still drawing too much moisture before I get the tiles on.....
Thoughts please!