Vinyl tile adhesive

Jul 14, 2010 6 Replies

About 15 years ago we had Amtico floor tiles installed in our bathroom by a professional installer.



Over the past couple of weeks we have refurbished our bathroom and replaced the cast iron bath with an acrylic one and also had a shower installed in the bath.



There is now a gap of 167 cm long x 3 cm wide at the bottom of the bath, however I have managed to acquire some free samples of the same Amtico tiles, and have cut them to fit this long thin gap. Once they're in place I will mastic around the join to the bath.



My problem is adhesive to stick these tiles onto the plywood substrate: I don't want to have to buy 2.5 litres of Amtico adhesive for nearly £10 to use on only a half a square foot of tiles. Can anybody recommend another suitable adhesive for PVC tiles that would come in, say, a small tube for a few quid? I don't anticipate a lot of water getting on the floor there.



Thanks for any help.



Sandra


Any "no more nails" type product should do that. The Pound Shop do one in a small tube that would be plenty.

In article , someone writes

Contact adhesive sounds ideal for this sort of job:

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or the more famous Evo-Stik brand.

Use in original confident mode: Apply to both surfaces, allow to dry, bring surfaces together, they will stick without any possibility of realignment.

or

Non-confident mode: Apply to one surface and bring together immediately, some realignment possible if you're quick.

First one is meant to give a better bond but for the offcuts you mention, I would go for the second.

Thank you all so much for your advice, I can now see a way forward and I'll check out your recommendations in more detail. I hadn't considered a no more nails type product for this application. The evo-stik alternative sounds good too. The wiki.diyfaq site leads on to other interesting answers for questions I hadn't even thought of yet.

best regards from Sandra

Either way the Pound Shop will do you :-) Mine does a solvent based UHU contact adhesive.

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