Using "no Nails" for ceramic floor tiles.

27col

Is there any good reason why ceramic tiles could not be fixed to a bathroom floor using a "No Nails" type product. I was very tempted to give it a try recently. It occurred to me that applying adhesive from a mastic gun might be easier than trowelling adhesive onto the floor. I haven't actually tried it with "No Nails" but I did wonder if anyone else had.

Ebe_Scrooge

I'm no expert, but I would have thought you'd still need to lay the adhesive as a "full bed" rather than just a bead round the edge of each tile, otherwise they'll crack when you walk on them as there will be parts that are unsupported. I would have thought covering the area with no-nails type stuff would be considerably more expensive than ordinary tile adhesive ?

keystone

None whatseoever if you want them to lift, crack and generally become useless within a very short time. Not recommended for one solitary picosecond.

Cheers

keystone

andrew-b wrote: »

If you were to use it i'd think a flat bed would be best which for a whole flooring tile would be alot and it's not particularly cheap. It's also messy stuff to use if your not careful and probably be a PITA if you ever want to remove at a later date.

Its also totally inflexible. You MUST use flexible addy and grout on an upper wooden floor even when overboarded. Don't even consider using NMN for this application. Just don't. Please!

Cheers

keystone

andrew-b wrote: »

No one mentioned "upper wooden floor" but fair point. Would be nice to have a product that didn't require all the faffing about with a bed of tile adhesive though...i suppose it's called vinyl floor tiles!

Then you just have to faff about with vinyl floor tile adhesive!

27col

keystone wrote: »

Its also totally inflexible. You MUST use flexible addy and grout on an upper wooden floor even when overboarded. Don't even consider using NMN for this application. Just don't. Please!

Cheers

I wasn't really. I was just idly speculating.