dot and dab

[diamondtiles]

I came across a tiler the other day when working on site and he was laying wall tiles using the dot and dab technique - if you can call it a technique that is!!!!!!!

Surely this cannot be right???

Must be a rogue tiler???

Anyone got any thoughts on this ???

 

[grumpygrouter]

No it is not correct! Not to BS and certainly not condoned on this forum.

 

[GazTech]

dot and dab, (known as spot fixing method), is not recognised within the industry. More often than not it leads to failure.....Gaz

 

[diamondtiles]

thanks. i thought it was odd...

i feel sorry for his customers

 

[wetdec]

Yet on a regular basis we remove perfectly sound tiles secured by the old fashioned method of spot fixing....... strange times we live in.


tiler

 

[pjtiler]

spot fixing was common place back in the sixty /seventy's when adhesive was just coming in
in fact Richarfix (the 1st wall adhesive used in Manchester i believe ) recommended the methered
some of the jobs i did using spot fixing are still there and looking good after 40 odd years ,and im not taking of the odd bathroom
how times have changed

 

[grumpygrouter]

Maybe it is because modern houses are built using moisture sensitive materials like plasterboard now. Back in the old days the were brick/block/concrete, neither were showers very popular then. Certainly not power showers.

 

[pjtiler]

Maybe it is because modern houses are built using moisture sensitive materials like plasterboard now. Back in the old days the were brick/block/concrete, neither were showers very popular then. Certainly not power showers.

aye thats one of the reasons no doubt although back in them days i didn't work on houses

serrated trowels not being invented could have something to do with it would,nt you say

 

[grumpygrouter]

Maybe. Too young to remember.

 

[wetdec]

Where would all the marketing people be now if it had carried on, you cant really write cutting edge bal literature on how spotting is the future can you :lol:

tiler