What Angle do you hold the trowel at ? - Tile Advice

[LJD]

10mm trowel . Depending on how i hold it ,i can get from 6-10 mm adhesive . What angle is the best . To get a 10mm bed, i need to hold at 90 degrees etc

 

[Bond]

Approximately 45 degrees.

 

[Old Mod]

A 10mm trowel will only give a 3mm solid bed.

 

[Goldtrowel]

Use a thick bed floor trowel, a 10mm trowel will give you 5mm at 45 degrees, 10mm at 90 degrees, you should make sure your using a scolloped trowel not square toothed to get full bed.
You can get floor trowels from notch depth of 10-30mm.

 

[Tile Shop]

Sorry, can't help myself. But a 10mm notch at a 45 degree angle will actually give you a depth of 7.1mm, which when compressed with a solid based tile (or tile that is back buttered) theoretically gives a final solid-bed depth of 3.55mm.

Simple maths, lol

 

[Goldtrowel]

Thanks Paul,
Mathematically i agree, however i was just shedding light to a novice, just taking it on finished bed depth, that works out the same.