Tile Adhesive Poll 2009 - Floor And Wall Tile Adhesive Poll - What's Best?

[Dan]

Which Tile Adhesive Did You Use Most During 2009?
Please vote on the Poll. All answers can be seen by the members.

If you used a brand not showing then please respond with the make.

I'm talking about both cement-based and dispersion. And I'm asking which brand in general did you use the most? It might be due to trust, availability, customer preference, whatever. Just if you totted up the lot you used, which one did you use and buy the most of?

This is for 2009 only - Voting is now closed, all votes are in.

129 Votes in total | Winner was BAL - Mapei was only 1 vote behind BAL​

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You can see the results changed quite a bit for the next poll we did.

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This was the last year we did properly although we will be doing another soon, that'll be a bit more inclusive and independent to the forum. 😉 😉

 

[LOFTHOUSE]

Custome Building Products, Versabond White, Fortified (other):ninja:

 

[Deleted member 9966]

pritt stick isn't listed Dan :lol:

😳

 

[faithhealer]

pritt stick isn't listed Dan :lol:

😳

and I had you down for a Blue Tak girl

 

[Prem Tiler]

orbit or riggles?

 

[andy-p]

mostly butech which is porcelanosa's brand but im lead to believe its a product of bal ...

 

[Gazzer]

Overall it would be Biscem but Weber and Mapei not far behind, This is due to availabilty of Biscem over Mapei.
I have tried to get my local dealer to get Mapei but its a no go.

 

[Dan]

Overall it would be Biscem but Weber and Mapei not far behind, This is due to availabilty of Biscem over Mapei.
I have tried to get my local dealer to get Mapei but its a no go.

Fair enough mate.

 

[Thespanishtiler]

this year mostly Benfer with Mapei second

 

[DHTiling]

Used to be BAL but way too expensive..i tried mapei and liked it better, so thats my prefered adhesive now and my most used in 2009.

 

[CJ]

Still Bal for me.........its wot I can get local.

 

[White Room]

Palace from topps and mapei P9 but have to travel and buy a few bags at a time. May use benfer as it is now being sold localy

 

[murf]

Laticrete

 

[chris.tiling]

Mostly Toppfix which is palace, with Mapei a close second...however, with the new Tile Giant TF sponsorship all white addy will be Mapei. Still cant get the grey cheaper than Topps though unfortunately. Only used powdered gear too.

 

[Dan]

So far it's looking like the BAL share of the market has somewhat descreased, and Mapei's somewhat increased. Though BAL have 1 vote more than Mapei, but it's too early to give true figures yet. Good news for Mapei it seems.

Maybe due to people going from bal to mapei which appears to be largely based around the expense of BAL and the quality of Mapei shining through?

 

[doug boardley]

mainly Ultra again for me this last year

 

[Spud]

no one using kera koll then, i used the marmorex white rapid the other day seemed pretty good ,pretty shocking that the ardex score is so low it was all i used to use back in the early 90's it is good gear too

 

[CON5933]

Mainly BAL (tubbed) but Toppfix on the cement...Tile Giant still a bit to far away to use daily.. (and there's a tunnel in the way)😳

 

[Rab78]

Topps Topfix Rapidset / Flexi
and
Bal Blue Star/ Mosaic Fix

Those are my main stickers!

 

[Sean Kelly]

Mostly BAL for me, but I do use Toppfix for floors (including my own). However, I'm really going off BAL GRIP because during the few days of Summer it went off really quickly in the tub. I'm now moving over to Single Pt. flex for walls. Cheers Sean

 

[Fekin]

Palace for me, well that cheapo muck Topps sells as their own.

Tight assed customers being the main reason, though, Bal probably isn't that far behind thinking about it.

 

[garretridge]

found a local distributor that does mapei reciently at £12 a 20 kg bag so its mapei for me too!

 

[Daz]

I refuse to submit to the cheap Topps pricing and have stuck to Ardex, with Mapei a close second.

 

[nudge]

some very interesting reading comparisons to be made between the gear used in the U.K. & Oz.
Ardex/BAL/Dunlop there are Ardex/ABA/dunlop here - & sounds like they're having same problems.
we also have Mapei - PCI & Laticrete as international brands (kera koll came & went)with local presence but only Mapei seriously manufacture. We also have a doz. other local Co.s of varying sizes & market share. it is curious that we can all be doing the same trade & yet doing it so differently.
might make an interesting long term topic itself ??

 

[brian c]

mostly Mapei kerraquick and D1...FOLLOWED CLOSELY BY TOPFIX RAPIDSET AND SONTEX ACRYLIC.

 

[jay]

laticrete:8:

 

[TrumpersUnited]

Used to be Mapei, but have now switched to Weber, Weber set plus and sp rapid low dust great gear.

 

[hillhead]

mapei keraflex,keraquick and mapeker most of the time so tops for 2009 here.

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Webber adhesives
Mapei grouts
Mapei self levelling
Mapei sealants

 

[bigregrout]

i see a lot of people hear tell that mapei is great and not expensive. this is good.

bal far to expesnive and not worth all the money extra. it like they think of number and times by 100.

i have pci and sometime weber here onsite. boss buy in on wooden square, a lot of bags. very good and boss tell me it cheap. i like pci much. nice consitency and easy to work

 

[honestjas]

palace supergrip, is the best tubbed wall adhesive , bar none. and toppfix flex for the cement based stuff.