Tiled glue is the facing dry mix necessary for laying ceramic or tile, natural or artificial stone and other materials. Buying glue, it is necessary to make a start from the used material, conditions of work, surface.
If you want to revet with ceramic tile or porcelain tile the site of kitchen wall at plate and washing, bathroom room or fireplace, you need tiled glue. Of course, it is possible to use in the old manner cement and sand solution, but now very few people act this way, on sale some grades of special tiled glues! Especially some grades of glue are strong, heat-resistant. However such abundance can confuse the potential buyer. How to choose the most suitable tiled glue?
What the choice of tiled glue depends on
The choice of dry mix depends on type and the size of facing covering. Tiled glues are subdivided into two groups: made on cement basis, and on the basis of synthetic pitches. There are no fundamental differences between these groups, it is possible to use both cement glue, and synthetic with success.
If you work with ceramic tile of the small sizes (for example, 20х20 or 20х30 centimeters in size), you quite will suit plain and inexpensive glue like Petromix-osnov, Eunice 21 or Plitonit And. It provides rather strong coupling, and at the same time waterproof. With its help you without problems will revet, for example, the bathroom or kitchen, at the same time the tile will well keep. In case the sizes of your tile it is more, or you are going to revet floor, you need the glue giving stronger seam. Then it is better to buy glue of the brand Petromix To, Plitonit In or Younis 2000.
The same grades of tiled glues well will be suitable for porcelain tile.
If you are going to impose facing tile over old layer of tile or on wooden or glass blank, you need even more tenacious glue. Then it is desirable to buy facing dry mix of the brand Plitonit With, Petromix of KU. Well, and if it is about facing works with use of heavy, massive tiles, for example, at external facing of socle or rooms which floors are exposed to increased loads (gyms, motor shows, warehouses, shops, etc.), then not to do you without glues like Eunice granite. When you have to revet, for example, fireplace, heat-resistant glue is required. You quite will suit the Plitonit Vt brand ("high-temperature") which keeps the qualities when heating to 600 wasps. It more than is enough, the outer surface of fireplace does not heat up to such sizes. How to be if you need to revet surface with mosaic tiles? For this purpose there are tiled glues of white color. For example, Belfix ("White fixing") who provides reliable coupling of mosaic with basis, and at the same time does not distort color of covering. If it is necessary to revet the capacity which is constantly in water (for example, the pool, bowl of fountain or decorative reservoir), glue of the brand of Eunice pool well will be suitable for such purpose. In a word, to choose is from what! Everything depends on what covering and on what basis you will put and also in what conditions it will be operated further. Even the beginning finisher, never before not being engaged in facing, can successfully cope with this task if he attentively reads application instructions of glue and will strictly follow it. Also it is possible to learn about the used glue at the expert borrowing with this type of works. It concerns literally in total the choice of the grade of glue, solution preparation, and directly the process of facing.
How many it is required gluing
To avoid excess work and excess monetary expenditure, you need to level surface basis previously. If it is rather well prepared for facing, to the experienced master tiler will be to impose on it adhesive layer about 4 millimeters thick quite enough.
For the best coupling it is also recommended to apply a little glue on inside face of facing tiles, but it is not enough, and not continuous layer, and in one-two places.
On average the 5-kilogram package of dry tiled glue at its cultivation in the correct proportion and good surface preparation which is subject to facing has to be enough for one square meter. Certainly, perhaps small deviation in any given party. However, significant excess of consumption of glue unambiguously testifies or to insufficient qualification of the master, or to bad surface preparation. Therefore it is not necessary to feel sorry for forces and time properly to level surface before further facing. Haste can lead at best to the raised glue consumption (and, respectively, to excess monetary expenditure), and in the worst - to the fact that facing will begin to burst or be showered over time. If in this case you the beginner, is better to consult the expert.