How much adhesive to put on the wall?

[Andrew]

Hi,

When tiling above a bath / shower, which is going to be tanked, how much do you leave on the wal adhesive-wise? Would you slap it on and then scrape it back to wall with a notched trowel, or try to keep the wall completely covered by adhesive?

Does this even make sense?!

[royaloakcarpentry]

You may want to get on youtube.......type in something like 'applying tile adhesive to wall'.

Watch a view videos because like all medias, you get some effin idiots posting. I.e try to aim for a vid from a company.


I can't answer your question because it depends on the tile size, composition of them, if the wall is 8mm piddled from top to bottom etc etc

[Andrew]

will do, ta.

[haveagohero]

I normally apply enough pressure that I can hear the notches scratching lightly on the substrate, I go vertical then horizontal so that by going both ways any low spots are brought up the same depth as the rest of the tile bed (if that makes sense)