Encaustic Tiles, advise please.

[Waluigi]

good evening everybody...

I have some Encaustic Tiles to lay on a Bathroom floor. It’s been a while!

Any advise would be gratefully received. If I remember correctly the last time I did these was a good ten years ago, and all I remember is that I used Stain Stop MN and kept the tile surface clean.

Any advise on adhesive to use, sealer etc would be good. Also order of installation would be helpful.

It’ll just be the usual 18mm ply overboarded with 6mm hardibacker, glued screwed and taped as per MI

Here’s a pic of the tiles in question.....

 

[Spare Tool]

Super flat floor, 12mm trowel, standard set adhesive and back skim tiles, leave at least 48hours before sealing with stainstop... and I mean at least 48hrs
(Lithuanian Bob would have you leave em a week ) and nothing darker than a medium grey grout

 

[Spare Tool]

Used exactly same tiles in March

 

[Waluigi]

Thanks. Did you seal before and after grouting and how many coats did it need?

These things are really porous!

12mm seems a lot! Any reason why? The grout in your pic looks really white!

I did contact Ca’pietra asking for advise and they blanked me.

 

[Spare Tool]

The bases are heavily pitted and 12mm was giving a good solid bed.
Sealed twice before grouting and once after, they do soak up sealer like a sponge, sure it was ultra titanium I used, about the only snicket of info I got was to not use a dark grout..

 

[Flintstone]

Plenty plenty plenty of sealer! Work very clean

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Seal them as you take them out of the box, don’t touch the surface with your fingers.

 

[Waluigi]

Not far off there, John

 

[Waluigi]

Used exactly same tiles in March View attachment 100023

Just noticed there are two ways to do the star pattern. Either the way you did it or with a reversed three star like this:-

Much prefer your way, cheers.

 

[Waluigi]