What's the Best Tile Adhesive for Floor and Best Tile Adhesive for Walls? 2013

[Gazzer]

Which Tile Adhesive Did You Use Most During 2013?​

Please vote on the Poll. All answers can be seen by the members.

What's the Best Tile Adhesive for Floor and Best Tile Adhesive for Walls? 2013 TilersForums.com 2013 Adhesive Poll | What is the Best Floor Tile Adhesive 2013? And what is the best tile adhesive for wall tile this year?​

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

175 Votes in total for 2013 | Winner was Weber - 2nd Mapei - 3rd Tilemaster - 4th BAL - 5th Ultra ​

Very different from the years before and showing the huge change in the industry. Loads of adhesives available, all firms doing loads of types, loads of new stuff launched. You really need need to see that poll to get a gauge of what's going on there.

The following is the best tile adhesive poll for 2007

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The following is for 2008

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2009 poll for best tile adhesive is here

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The best floor tile adhesive for 2012

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Best tile adhesive make for 2013

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Best tile adhesive manufacturer for 2015

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There was a huge gap for a few years where we didn't do annual polls, so the next poll is from 2016 to 2021 hence the large response​

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. 😉 😉

 

[Ian]

Can it be made multi choice Neale? I could do with ticking 2 boxes.

 

[Lee@emctiles]

This could be quite interesting this year 😉

 

[White Room]

I have 2 choices as well....

 

[Dougs Third Go]

mainly tilemaster for me, but also kerakoll on a few occasions.

 

[demi34]

Bal for me 100 percent

 

[johnryan]

i ticked weber as i use that the most (60-70%) but still use ardex and mapei a fair bit too. would try tilemaster too if i could find somewhere local to get it.

 

[jonnyc]

oh look at tilemaster go.!!
i have used it exclusively now for last year or more since gary put me on to it.

 

[Gazzer]

oh look at tilemaster go.!!
i have used it exclusively now for last year or more since gary put me on to it.

I predict Tilemaster will do very well at the cost of some of the top brands and this will make a big impact on the overall result. I say they will triple last years votes.

 

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

Weber/ardex here, you need two option for most of us !!!!!!.......

 

[mma]

Weber/Tilemaster. Probably used Weber more.

 

[tommyzooom]

Probably Larsen for me unfortunately.

Which Tile Adhesive Did You Use Most During 2013?

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[Ian]

Weber is what I've used for 80% of my work this year. I have done about 250 m2 of anhydrite this year and used anhyfix from tilemaster for that.

 

[jonnyc]

thought some might be interested to know why i changed to setaflex white last year.
apart from cost which is one key as probably use about 40-45 palletts a year just adhesive, mark of tilemaster talked to me about what i was after in an adheisve .
I explained good workability and non slumping with thick bed under quite heavy stone but most importantly needed to be able have enough time to adjust a large module of stone say 4.00 mts/ a long course of stone or uneven sized reclaimed .
We would need an hour or more sometimes but it was still imperative that the adhesive was a fast set and dried within its self so moisture not migrating up though stone.
he then said that he could manufacture retarded fast which would give ius that time especially in the summer.
i tried it out and that was the clincher for us as stonefixers.
you do need to make sure ok to walk on next day but then the rapid setting procedure kicks in and this helped me so much.
does anyone know anyone else doing this because i dont

 

[zenman63]

Mapies's new low dust is so good I use it all the time now

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

Still Mapei for me, but I am using Tilemaster more and more, I could have done with two votes.

 

[rainsco]

i mostly use Kiesel .. not in english market? second brand is ardex.

 

[Rich Midge]

Norcros, but this is mainly down to subcontracting to a large firm in N Wales who stock nothing else. If I'm doing the spec myself I tend to go with Ultra powders. First used it over 10 years ago now, yet to have any issues, can't say the same for Norcros unfortunately.

 

[craig89]

50/50 BAL and Norcross

 

[High Peak Tiling]

Weber is my one and only love 😉

 

[CJ]

Need multiple choice.

 

[jonnyc]

i will have to look this up

 

[Andy Tiler]

Tilemaster for me as well cracking stuff!!!

 

[Dan]

We'll set some multiple choices with other polls and next years adhesive poll but it would render the current votes dodgy if we activated it now.

 

[padtheplumber]

Have been using Ultra Proflex SP+ES for some time now, nice to use and good pot life.

Which Tile Adhesive Did You Use Most During 2013?

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[jonnyc]

interesting to see how this is poll is going.
talking about uk market only and correct me if i am wrong.
for me i think it is a given that ardex/bal were the old school very well known and accepted quality product but came at a price.
mapei were late comers in the market here but massive in the world and all quality.
weber came earlier than mapei with a quality product but well after bal and ardex.
weber started cheap and have slowly lifted their prices .
mapei from world reputation came in higher than weber did when they started and interested to know what price difference is between mapei and weber .
when you know you have a good product that is user friendly it immediately goes to bottom line of cost saving.
of course you have to factor in yield per sq mt which may close the gap between the old boys and the younger ones .
so then there are the others.
i have chopped and changed between 4 of these over the last 6 years and all seemed ok until i started to notice problems as did others on forum.
I changed last year to one of the newer manufacturers as i think many others have and at this point in time there is only one stand out alone runner coming from back of field to the fore.
must bea reason for this .
i just hope that prices will not rise too much as a result but ineveitably will as need for higher technology and premises,customer care etcc comes in to play.
its getting a decent product at a decent price that makes a winner . canyt see myself changing anytime soon

 

[prceramics]

ultra 🙂

 

[rainsco]

i don´t know how the prices going in UK but in germany its going to get absurd.
for example my favourite thick and middle bed adhesive for natural stone the ardex X32: 25 kg list price: 55,- euro plus 20% tax. (!!!!)
how crazy is that? what is it? is it cement with platinium dust?
if the trend goes on maby anytime we change back to cement/sand and tell the people if they can wait 14 days before grouting they save a lot of money for the flow screed and the utopic adhesive.

i always buy my adhesive on full euro pallets. so i always have 3 diffrent types of adhesive in stock. but this means over 3000,- euro invest on season start. wtf.

 

[jonnyc]

i don´t know how the prices going in UK but in germany its going to get absurd.
for example my favourite thick and middle bed adhesive for natural stone the ardex X32: 25 kg list price: 55,- euro plus 20% tax. (!!!!)
how crazy is that? what is it? is it cement with platinium dust?
if the trend goes on maby anytime we change back to cement/sand and tell the people if they can wait 14 days before grouting they save a lot of money for the flow screed and the utopic adhesive.

i always buy my adhesive on full euro pallets. so i always have 3 diffrent types of adhesive in stock. but this means over 3000,- euro invest on season start. wtf.[/

so much do you actually pay for x32 per 25 kg bag before the tax after you get a discount for buying full euro pallet.
I can then try and compare what we pay for equivalent in uk.There will obviously need to be an adjustment for different weight of bags , so can compare like for like.
things will obviously have changed since
the times 20 years ago when for some bizarre reason I was doing a few marble jobs in Switzerland for wealthy uk bankers and mates .
but back then ardex was king and freely available in builders merchants at a reasonable rate for me as an non account customer compared with uk.
i guess and only guess that having lived in Germany who are so correct about all things technical that there are not too many new comers in the market that are easily accepted .

 

[jonnyc]

I also think raine that for the most part you do bespoke bathrooms that don't involve big sq mts where you do the prep and thereby your coverage per sq mt per bag is good.
i also do bathrooms but also a lot of big floor areas and I can say categorically that I would reckon to use on average I bag x 20 kg for solid bed coverage of 2.25 sq mtsts. I am not talking a big notch ,we bed each tile individually .average bed @ 6mm.
I have done tests on ardex for yield per kg per sq mt and they have always been good.

 

[Rookery]

Still Mapei for me. Good quality, reliability and useability. Use some Weber too though not their grout. BAL has always been good but just too dear.