Tile adhesive is a new modern decoration material used for attaching ceramic tiles, facing tiles, floor tiles, and other decorative materials.
Tile adhesive contains a variety of additives, specifically those that enhance its functionality. Typically, tile adhesives contain cellulose ethers to retain moisture and thicken the adhesive, as well as latex powders to enhance its adhesion. The addition of redispersible polymer powders significantly increases the adhesive's flexibility, mitigates stress, and enhances its toughness. Other additives are added to tile adhesives with specialized functional requirements. For example, wood fiber improves the mortar's crack resistance and open time, modified starch ethers enhance its anti-slip properties, drought-hardening agents accelerate the adhesive's strength, and hydrophobic powder reduce water absorption and provide a waterproofing effect.
Tile adhesive is mainly used for tilling ceramic tiles, facing tiles, floor tiles and other decorative materials, widely used in interior and exterior walls, floors, bathrooms, kitchens and other building finishing decoration places.
Its main features are high bonding strength, water resistance, freeze-thaw resistance, good aging resistance and easy construction. It is an ideal bonding material.
What is better than cement?
1. Tile adhesive is easy to apply, no need to soak bricks or wet walls, which improves work efficiency;
2. Tile adhesive is constructed using the new scraping method, which uses less quantity and more evenly, avoiding hollowing and rotation, making it safer and more secure.
3. Tile adhesive has good water retention properties, providing enough time to adjust the bonded tiles
4. Tile adhesive has good aging resistance and weather resistance, small shrinkage, and is not easy to crack. It can be used in cold areas and ice storages.
5. Tile adhesive has excellent water resistance and can be used in pools and bathrooms, and can greatly enhance its anti-seepage ability;
6. Tile adhesive has strong bonding strength and anti-falling ability, which can firmly adhere tiles to the substrate to prevent peeling;
7. Tile adhesive can be used directly to level rough and uneven base surfaces, or smoother cement floors;
What causes its surface to wrinkle?
1. High temperature sizing and high temperature curing; the curing speed is too fast, the rate of methanol release is faster than the rate of methanol seeping out of the colloid, causing methanol to accumulate and then gasify to produce bubbles;
2. The adhesive is too thin;
3. Damage to the foam rod causes foaming (open-cell foam strips); there is moisture; the foam strip material is incompatible and chemical reactions occur
4. Irregular sizing, repeated scraping. During construction and trimming, be careful not to squeeze excessively, otherwise it will easily cause the gasket foam rod to deform, and then the foam rod will gradually recover, causing the sealant to bulge as a whole; during construction, try to extend the correction time within the allowable range of construction, and adjust the operation at the same time, use a scraper to trim from the bottom of the glue seam upwards, which can avoid uneven surface and a small amount of sagging of the glue strip after curing; due to the differences in various types of materials on the market, it is recommended that customers conduct a simple adhesion test before using each batch of glue products, and only use it widely after approving the product quality. This is to ensure the quality of the project while also protecting their own interests.
Difference from tile adhesive
Tile glue is strictly speaking a liquid tile glue, also called "tile back glue." It's primarily used to reinforce the backside interface of low-water-absorption vitrified tiles and stone materials. It can enhance the adhesion of the substrate. It should be used in conjunction with cement or tile adhesive, not alone. It's usually applied directly from the bucket without adding water.
Tile adhesive is a powder that is a cement-based tiling material. It can be used alone after adding water and mixing. Generally, the thin-layer method is used. Tile adhesive has a thin layer, consumes less material, is light in weight, reduces the load on the building, and saves material costs.
Post time: Sep-26-2025