Note in 4 it is necessary to use added adhesive buttered evenly onto the back of the tiles.
Laying floor tiles back buttered.
Backbuttering tile simply means spreading a flat layer of thinset onto the back of the tile before installing it on your wall or floor or whatever.
First you have to comb the thinset onto the substrate that means it is spread with the notched side of the trowel leaving little ridges.
Although not necessary for tile coverage back buttering can be effective by increasing the bond of the mortar to the back of the tile which is an excellent benefit.
In my own professional opinion and experience the non back buttered tiles would have performed as well in real world applications on any of the substrates demonstrated and the video only serves to prove that.
However there is more to this process which we will see in the following paragraphs.
Back buttering tile can be effective.
In this video inventor contractor phil green tests six different substrates to see if back buttering tiles really makes a difference to the coverage on the.
He told us to go to the tile store he deals with and they would have the right tiles very close to the pattern we had.
Matt march 28 2015 at 7 37 pm.
The additional adhesive buttered on to the back of the tiles is often essential where contact coverage of adhesive is requird to reach or exceed 80 per cent.
How to back butter tile correctly.
The discipline of back buttering is to lower the probability that anything ever will.
Hundreds of thousands of feet of tile are installed and not back buttered and nothing happens.
Different adhesives are chosen for specific backgrounds.
Yes brian back buttering floors is more crucial than walls on interior work but for exterior work all tile should be back buttered.