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[Waluigi]

Bloody mitres. Two windows to go.

 

[Waluigi]

Is there a particular resin that should be used for the mitres that someone could recommend?

I did a quick search but couldn’t find anything.

 

[One Day]

Is there a particular resin that should be used for the mitres that someone could recommend?

I did a quick search but couldn’t find anything.

I like Tenax with coloured dyes for adjusting and tweaking colours, from Stonetools.com
I think Marc uses a different brand?

 

[LM]

Akemi

 

[Old Mod]

Akemi

Bless you!

 

[Waluigi]

I like Tenax with coloured dyes for adjusting and tweaking colours, from Stonetools.com
I think Marc uses a different brand?

Cheers, I searched tenax and got 80 odd products come up. Any clues at to which I need to buy?

I just need white.

 

[Waluigi]

Akemi only has 69 products. Much easier

 

[Old Mod]

Are you using Levtec clips Andy?

Lee is correct, as a general rule I use Akemi Polysoft resin. It’s polyester based.

Different people have different ideas on what should be used, but I think it’s more dependant on the application at the time.

Polysoft white is a brilliant white, and is fine for your purposes. Not so sure the colour will be tho.
Source it from Apex Grange.

 

[Waluigi]

Thanks for the reply @3_fall

I’m using Premtool from Protiler

I’ll have a look at the resin you suggest.

@impish do you have more of an idea of exactly what I’d need, just to give me something else to look into.

 

[Old Mod]

You won’t know which resin is better for you till you actually try it, it’ll come down to which you believe has better workability.
No amount of spec reading will help with that.
Whether it be Akemi Polysoft or Tennax.

No polyester resin will actually bond porcelain in the true sense of the term.
It has to be a full blown epoxy resin, which is another beast altogether.
Polyester resins are ok for soft applications, which is what this is.
You don’t need a full blown epoxy resin for what you are doing.
Americans swear by silicone, based on the fact they feel that if there is movement, the silicone will cope.
Polyester resin can split in this scenario.

Like I said, different resins, different applications.

 

[Waluigi]

Thanks. Sounds complicated.

What about these little tubs of grout, like Kerapoxy, easy poxy etc?

I take it they’re no good?!

I’m just keen to get something in the joint to give it some protectction although standard grout might be going in after all

 

[Old Mod]

Depends how good you at shaping epoxy grout I would suppose, that’s if you could build it up enough to round off.
It’s not something we use as a rule.

This is Akemi.
Was done very quickly as a sample for someone, so it’s not as refined as it should be, but it’ll give you an idea of what to achieve.
And yes, the tiles are chipped on the edges.
But at 6pm on a Sunday they were the best scraps I could find and I didn’t have the inclination to mitre new pieces.

 

[LM]

Thanks. Sounds complicated.

What about these little tubs of grout, like Kerapoxy, easy poxy etc?

I take it they’re no good?!

I’m just keen to get something in the joint to give it some protectction although standard grout might be going in after all

You may also consider Schluter’s answer to it Andy
Schlüter®-FINEC | Function | Schlüter-Systems - http://www.schluter.co.uk/schlueter-finec.aspx

 

[Old Mod]

You may also consider Schluter’s answer to it Andy
Schlüter®-FINEC | Function | Schlüter-Systems - http://www.schluter.co.uk/schlueter-finec.aspx

Good shout Lee.

 

[Waluigi]

Thanks Gents- yes I have a load of the samples of FINEC but I decided against using it.

@3_fall I don’t suppose you have a link to the Akemi I would need?

Edit: this stuff

Apex Grange - http://www.apexgrange.com/category/products/akemi/page/3/