Tips from Technical Services

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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Spot Bonding Presentation Coming Soon!

Fred Gray will be presenting on Spot Bonding

Fred Gray, LATICRETE Technical Service Manager

Be sure to be at DESIGNEX, in NSW!

This is a presentation you don't want to miss out on! 

Be sure you go down to the Tile and Stone Theatre on Day 2 of DESIGNEX for the Spot Bonding presentation, which will be presented by Fred Gray, LATICRETE Australia Technical Service Manager.

May 29, 2014 - 2.00pm to 2.45pm

An outlawed tiling technique with conventional adhesives made possible with specially engineered epoxy adhesives and well thought out installation practices. A presentation on the future of Spot Bonding in Australia and its ever increasing synergies with evolution of large formate tile and stone.

Speaker: Fred Gray, LATICRETE

Fred Gray has been active in the construction industry since 1975. His experience as a builder, including swimming pools has provided Fred with a unique perspective on tiling installations. Fred has written many hundreds of specifications on tiling, being directly involved through the installations, including facades, railway infrastructure, commercial, shopping centres and high end domestic residential projects.

Be sure to also come past the LATICRETE booth, #488! We would love to chat to you about our products and the available installation systems for tile and stone applications. Click here for more info on DESIGNEX.

Spot Bonding Article by Fred Gray

Next generation spot bonding

by Fred Gray, Laticrete Australia

"In strict terms ‘spot bonding’ is a practice that is frowned upon by many industry bodies around the world. Our own AS 3958.1 and 2 discourages spot bonding. Fred Gray of Laticrete explains that recent technological advances have produced adhesives that can be used to spot bond some products in specific environments. Fred explains how ‘spot bonding’ can work." Click here to read the full article.