Pva Before Tiling Wall

Discuss sealing the walls with pva glue before tiling in the uk tiling forum.

Pva before tiling wall.

Prime the surface prior to the tiling. Find the right trowel and mortar here. If you doubt us professional tilers we are no plasterer s or painters we fix tiles and guarantee our work will stay on ring the free help line of the tile adhesive companies and see what they have to say. After all they will be guaranteeing thee product will stick the tiles to the wall.

Many people think that pva is okay as a primer on walls and floors before tiling. Count how many tiles you ll need. Start with planning your wall tile installation. For wet areas such as shower walls you must take certain precautions.

Floor or wall indoors or out tile type and size all are a factor. Key the wall with a sharp stanley knife prime with sbr tile. When you spread tile adhesive onto the wall the water in the adhesive makes the pva live and stops the adhesive from penetrating the substrate and providing a mechanical grip. At a push you could bluegrit pregrit the wall as another way to provide a key but not really much need if you ve done the other steps.

Before you start remember that using the correct trowel and mortar is critical to a successful tile project. When you put a water based tile adhesive onto the wall the pva will emulsify causing initial problems with the tile adhesive setting and it can make it nigh on impossible to get the tiles to stick. Vacuum clean and wipe the walls. This is not the case as traditionally pva is a multi purpose product and not specifically formulated to work with tile adhesives.

No no no do not use pva. Acrylic based primers are what i use on a daily for common jobs that are on concrete or fibresheets like hardiebacker. Diy wall and floor tiler feb 7 2017 1. The acetic acid produced when cement and pva come into contact would render the adhesive and grout useless.

Basically your tiles grout and adhesive are being held to the wall by a thin layer of pva. It s a great tile adhesive primer and can be applied liberally to substrates. No to pva no to wallpaper paste. No never use pva to prime a surface before applying tiles.

Jord86 nov 26 2017. Even when the adhesive eventually sets water soluble pva will emulsify if moisture gets to it. Do a precise measurement of the surface. Joined apr 2 2006 messages 27 032 reactions 5 255 27 location staffordshire uk what member type are you.

This is a basic acrylic based tile primer designed for priming concrete floors and fibresheets before tiling or applying a self leveling underlayment. Long answer to can i use pva to prime a surface before tiling never use pva in any tiling project under any circumstances. Can i use pva to prime a surface before tiling.