View Full Version : How do you make tiles stick to the wall?


EddScott
09 February 2004, 11:52
I've had to replace 2 tiles in the bathroom and I bought Unibond fix and grout paste to fix these two tiles on.

Left them overnight and touched them this moring and the fell off :( the paste isn't even hard!

Whats the best stuff to fix tiles cos this Unibond stuff seems rubbish


TIA

Buzzer
09 February 2004, 12:25
What surface are you sticking them to?

cliff_vtr
09 February 2004, 12:27
I used unibond too, the stuff you mix yourself, and the tiles I have used it on are not going anywhere worked a treat.

When you put the adhesive on the wall or tile, did you run a comb through it as if not this is why it fell off. Runnin a comb through create ridges and troughs to accomodate for not having a perfectly flat wall and to smooth out and difference in thickness of paste. That way the ridges of paste move into the troughs on the wall when you press the tile down. You get the idea

Also did you use waterproof stuff as in a bathroom its quite possible there was a lot of moisture in the air which stopped it drying properly

Cliff

Soulgirl
15 February 2004, 23:31
If it is just an occasional tile, and your not bothered about removing them later, use gripfil LOL

salsa-king
15 February 2004, 23:58
pop into Wickes and get some tile and grout.. adhesive...... dead easy ;)


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