Spot Bonding with the Right Adhesive
In a Technical Article featured in Tile Today #81, Fred
Gray, LATICRETE Australia Technical Service Manager, provides an
informative discussion about spot bonding with the right adhesives.
"As tile format get larger, the need for straighter, flatter
and truer substrates increases to ensure the installation meets the required
finished tolerances. Tilers are often faced with substrates that were never
built to deliver this required flatness for tiling but are still expected to
deliver a great looking job despite this.
For some, the answer with large format
wall tiling is to spot bond the tiles to the surface to help plumb and true the
installation. This is a technique where thick daubs of cement based adhesives,
which are not designed to be used in this way, are applied to the back of the
tile, generally four or five places, to help plumb the tile accurately. However
this method of fixing with cement based adhesives is not recognised and in fact
has led to many tile installation issues, particularly external ones.
LATAPOXY
310 Spot Bonding Adhesive however is designed to be used in this way. Now you
can spot bond tiles in many situation that were not possible before and is also
suitable for substrates that require up to 20mm correction! Originally designed
to replace mechanical fixing, it can also be used to overcome those nuisance
out of plane substrates." Click here to continue reading the published article.
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