QUESTION

Adhering Tile to Ceiling - I'm putting up 6x8 tiles on a ceiling in my shower. They won't stay up long enough for the cement to dry. Is there a special cement, or how can we do it?

ANSWER

ANSWER - Normally the light weight 6x8 type ceramic bodied tiles stay up with a good tacky non-sag thin-set or mastic. Depends on what type of substrate you are going over. If the substrate is concrete, which it should be for the best installation, then you can use a good quality polymer modified thin-set (also know as multi-purpose thin-set); preferably a non-sag thin-set. If you are going over green board or other non-cement backer boards you can use a non-sag mastic adhesive. There is an epoxy that Laticrete makes called Latapoxy 310 and it definitely will hold the tile in place and sets up fast, but it is more expensive and more difficult to work with.

You can go to Installation Products in the Resources column on our website to locate these products from the various manufacturers. Good Luck!

 
ANSWER - Normally the light weight 6x8 type ceramic bodied tiles stay up with a good tacky non-sag thin-set or mastic. Depends on what type of substrate you are going over. If the substrate is concrete, which it should be for the best installation, then you can use a good quality polymer modified thin-set (also know as multi-purpose thin-set); preferably a non-sag thin-set. If you are going over green board or other non-cement backer boards you can use a non-sag mastic adhesive. There is an epoxy that Laticrete makes called Latapoxy 310 and it definitely will hold the tile in place and sets up fast, but it is more expensive and more difficult to work with.

You can go to Installation Products in the Resources column on our website to locate these products from the various manufacturers. Good Luck!