Why use back glue when tiling?
2025-04-16
As an important building material in decoration, tile laying has become one of the important links in home decoration. If tiles are not firmly attached, it will not only affect the appearance, but also create safety hazards. So how to make the tiles adhere more firmly and effectively avoid the problem of tile falling off? Tile back glue comes into being.
As an important building material in decoration, tile laying has become one of the important aspects of home decoration. If tiles are not firmly attached, it not only affects the appearance but also creates safety hazards. Therefore, to ensure tiles are more firmly adhered and to effectively avoid tiles falling off, tile back adhesive is used.
Strictly speaking, tile back adhesive is not a bonding material; it is only an interface treatment agent. When used with tile adhesive, it can make the tile bonding stronger, mainly playing an auxiliary bonding role. It cannot be used alone, while the tile adhesive plays the main bonding role. Using back adhesive when laying tiles only acts as a buffer between the tile adhesive and the tile, absorbing the stress of shrinkage and deformation, thereby improving the safety and reliability of tile laying.
On the market, we can see some tile back adhesive products. After brushing it on the back of the tile and letting it dry completely to become transparent, if the palm can completely stick to the tile and lift it, this effect actually gives people the illusion that "this back adhesive is really good for tiling!".
In fact, the stickiness of the tile back adhesive is not closely related to its tile bonding strength. The tile bonding strength of the tile back adhesive is mainly the result of complex physical and chemical reactions between the tile back adhesive, the tiling material, and the tile, as well as the coordination of stress and strain. Therefore, stickiness is not the standard for judging the quality of the back adhesive; the quality of the back adhesive can be judged by its pull-out index.
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Why use back glue when tiling?
As an important building material in decoration, tile laying has become one of the important links in home decoration. If tiles are not firmly attached, it will not only affect the appearance, but also create safety hazards. So how to make the tiles adhere more firmly and effectively avoid the problem of tile falling off? Tile back glue comes into being.