Best Tile Adhesive for Walls - 2016 Tile Adhesives Poll

Ultra for me, best around in my opinion and very competitively prices, and the standard set in pink bag is the nicest on the market to work with on walls
 
Sorry to hear about fake voting. I have tried a few different brands the past year, including Ultra, Bostik, and some fairly obscure cheapies stocked by my local plumbers merchants. My choice of adhesive tends to depend on where I am working. Weber has been my choice for large scale floors, but my standard "go to" products are Tilemaster Lightweight Standard white for walls, and Tilemaster Trade grey for floors. Now got a supplier of Mapei products a mile from my house - so that may change my buying habits. I need to make a 60-90 minute round trip to buy from Bristol.
 
Ultra (mainly because we sell it) but have used a few others this year helping friends out with jobs and I would stick with the ultra (hope that isn't a biased vote for you there)
 
I hear you. But it is because you sell it. Regardless.

Just so people know, that vote wasn't added to the poll. It's a written opinion which is fine.

Cheers anyway like. 🙂
 
Dan said:
(WHILE I HAVE YOU PLEASE NOTICE THE JOB OF THE MONTH COMP IS BACK!!! - VIEW INFORMATION HERE)

On with the original post...

I've nearly lost interest in this now. Got much better things to be doing with my time than messing around with fake votes.

I've reset the poll. I started to go through all the false votes and remove them. But there were quite a few and it ended up messing up the poll.

So I've now added some restrictions so that people who try to register to the forum just to vote, don't get to vote.

If you wouldn't mind, please vote again. I'll keep an eye on the poll too and make sure it's true.

I have to say that a dozen accounts were registered in a day and used to vote for TileMaster, and it stopped once they were a few votes ahead of Mapei. Not cool.

I've also stopped member support accounts and sponsors from voting. As clearly they'd vote for the adhesive they sell. So it isn't a choice they have so didn't choose to use that brand like a tiler does.

Good luck to all in the poll.
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Dan - i'm sorry to hear about the "fake votes" and sincere apologies for our part in this.

We had asked our 3 sales reps in the ceramic industry to make their customers aware of the tile adhesive poll. Our intention wasn't to get new forum users signing up just in order to cast a vote, our intention was to make existing forum users and contractor customers who use adhesives day in day out aware of the poll so that they could log on to the forum / poll and cast a genuine vote. Unfortunately, people have got carried away.

We have also sent out a few tweets relating to the poll, not necessarily asking for followers to vote Tilemaster more to help create awareness of the forum and also trying to encourage people to take part in all topics and conversations on the forum.

We are genuinely proud to be part of this poll and I personally was very humbled to see the votes for Tilemaster increasing day by day. It was only a few years ago when we got a small handful of votes and most people responded to Tilemaster as "who"?

I look forward to seeing the new poll develop and please accept mine and Tilemaster's apologies,

Kind Regards
Mark Kelly
 
Mark@Tilemaster said:
Dan - i'm sorry to hear about the "fake votes" and sincere apologies for our part in this.

We had asked our 3 sales reps in the ceramic industry to make their customers aware of the tile adhesive poll. Our intention wasn't to get new forum users signing up just in order to cast a vote, our intention was to make existing forum users and contractor customers who use adhesives day in day out aware of the poll so that they could log on to the forum / poll and cast a genuine vote. Unfortunately, people have got carried away.

We have also sent out a few tweets relating to the poll, not necessarily asking for followers to vote Tilemaster more to help create awareness of the forum and also trying to encourage people to take part in all topics and conversations on the forum.

We are genuinely proud to be part of this poll and I personally was very humbled to see the votes for Tilemaster increasing day by day. It was only a few years ago when we got a small handful of votes and most people responded to Tilemaster as "who"?

I look forward to seeing the new poll develop and please accept mine and Tilemaster's apologies,

Kind Regards
Mark Kelly
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The results will mean a lot lot more for everybody involved now they're genuine.
 
Mark@Tilemaster said:
Hi Andy, if you want to message me with your details we will contact you on Monday with information of stockists for you
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That's kinda borderline salesy.

Please read the rules.

Forum Rules - http://www.tilersforums.com/pages/rules/

It must be said; i don't think you're doing wrong. We are. We just haven't worked out what's right for all because we're all about the tilers not the suppliers.

We need to cater for firms now not just the tilers.

Keep tabs on the Cafe. I'll be pulling something off soon and it might work.
 
The last product development day I attended at BAL, there were 17 tilers there and all through the day and particularly at breaks and lunchtime all I could hear was "Tilemaster" this and "Tilemaster" that!
Even better testimony to TM was that under discussion, most of the comparisons and benchmarks of test products were made against Tilemaster products!
 
impish said:
The last product development day I attended at BAL, there were 17 tilers there and all through the day and particularly at breaks and lunchtime all I could hear was "Tilemaster" this and "Tilemaster" that!
Even better testimony to TM was that under discussion, most of the comparisons and benchmarks of test products were made against Tilemaster products!
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Was that in Stoke?
 
Dan said:
Our annual poll has been requested and is quite late in comparison to when we usually run it.

But here it is, better late than never.

Which tile adhesive did you use the most during 2016?

You can see our old polls here:-
ALL TILE ADHESIVE POLLS - WHICH TILE ADHESIVE BRAND DO YOU USE THE MOST?
Vote for only one. Adhesive reps voting for their own brand will have their votes removed. Votes will be public. Please only vote for the brand you used most during 2016.

If you could let us know where you are buying from and which versions you are buying that'd be cool. Don't mention trade prices though please this is a public thread.
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Mapei keraquik adhesive .try chopping a tile out stuck with it
 
I'm going to knock up the new poll soon for 2017 but use the new voting system on the blog we have so that we can spread it around on twitter and get non members voting too. Get a real feel industry wise and get more votes than the 2016 one which was a fairly poor turn out really.

Edit: it's been done on the forum already.

Adhesive - Which tile adhesive did you use the most during 2017? - https://www.tilersforums.com/threads/which-tile-adhesive-did-you-use-the-most-during-2017.84695/

Still might do another.
 

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