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Hi,
I have bought some marble tiles for my bathroom wall. They are 30cm by 30cm and 10mm thick. What adhesive should I use to fix these to the wall.
I was thinking of buying BAL natural stone adhesive but they are 55 quid each bag!!!!! Any suggestions for cheap but decent stuff will be appreciated.
Cheers

What colour is the marble and what are the walls made from that you are fixing them to?

If you live near any major stockist (topps) etc, they will have something suitable for alot less than £ 55. Expect to pay about half that.

If black marble use a grey flexible cementious powder adhesive & if they're cream or white use a white flexible cementious powder adhesive, due to marble being highly porous & will bleed through the stone.

Use a solid bed trowel achieving full coverage on the back of the stone, if it does bleed then it will discolour the whole tile & not just a part of it which does give a better look than a part stained tile.

Lots of different manufacturers make a marble/stone specific adhesive such as norcros mosaic & marble fix or BAL do a similar version, whichever you get, use a quality brand

dont forget to prep your walls too & bearing in mind you have marble use the guidelines for safe weight of tiles onto plaster walls & plasterboard

20kg/sqm onto plaster
32kg/sqm onto plasterboard

allow 2-4kg/sqm for adhesive & grout too which should be included in the above weights

jozeffo wrote:If you live near any major stockist (topps) etc, they will have something suitable for alot less than £ 55. Expect to pay about half that.

£55 is about the right price in topp tiles if you dont get any discount. All you normally need to do is say I dont mind paying a bit more than trade, but not 100% more. Normally when they know you know the 'correct' price, then its a bit better..............or, of course, have a trade card.

I'd suggest driving right past Topps & go to your nearest independant tile shop IMO.

They charge extremely over inflated prices with huge mark ups & you will probably get a better deal from a local independant. Do a price check on both, see who will do the best deal.