tile adhesive

[patsybee]

Eight days ago, my husband started laying floor tiles in our kitchen using Evostik heatpruf adhesive, which was supposed to be for floor tiles onto almost any surface, wood, concrete, existing tiles, etc. The tiles have not stuck, can be lifted easily and the adhesive is in exactly the same condition it was in the original tub, no sign whatsover of it setting. After eight days, I really don't think it will set if it shows no signs of doing so now. Anybody out there had the same problem?

 

[Maxsys]

What size and type are the tiles, and where did you buy the adhesive?

 

[tpt]

in general diiy adhesive is c**p and never trust a bucket adhesive on a floor.

clean the tiles off, take the adhesive back for a refund and buy a decent trade powdered adhesive - granfix, bal or such like. make sure you follow guidelines on priming etc too.

 

[Richard C]

As TPT said it’s almost certainly the adhesive your using that’s your problem but what type of floor are you tiling over? What type/size are the tiles? DIY tiling products are mostly crap, you need to use quality trade products & you should never use tub ready mix on floors. They tiles need to come up & the floor cleaned off & start again.

Before starting again, read the Tiling Forum sticky & archive posts & post back for further advice, hopefully it will prevent you making further disastrous & potentially expensive mistakes.