Answering a question from an owner today. The owner asked, can using tile adhesive to lay tiles thinly save space rather than using cement mortar? Three years ago, it would have been difficult to answer this question. From the literal meaning, compared with paving with cement mor

Answered a question from an owner today. The owner asked, can using tile adhesive to lay tiles thinly save space compared to using cement mortar ?

Three years ago, it would have been difficult to answer this question. From the literal meaning, the thickness of thin paste should be smaller than that of cement mortar paving.

Today, three years later, we have a lot of construction experience and have the right to speak on this issue.

The final conclusion is that thin wall stickers do not necessarily save thickness.

Everyone should change this idea. The purpose of thin wall tiles is not to save thickness, but to improve the adhesion of the tiles. Especially now that large slabs are popular, cement mortar alone or combined with adhesive None of them work, and the risk of bricks falling later is very high.

Thin paste is to scrape tile adhesive on the back of the tile. The thickness is generally 3-5 mm. If cement mortar is used for paving, the thickness should reach about two centimeters.

From the perspective of thickness alone, thin stickers will feel thin, but thin stickers have very high requirements for the flatness of the wall.

The flatness of most rough houses does not meet the conditions for direct thin paste. It is necessary to use cement mortar to level the wall in advance. The thickness of the leveling also takes up space. The thickness of the leveling, plus the thickness of the tile adhesive, is the final thickness of the sand layer.

Compared with the traditional method, the final thickness may be less or more.

So it is not entirely correct to say that thin stickers are used to save space.

　Similarly, it is wrong to make thin tiles on the ground to increase the height of the room.

　For thin tiles, you need to level them first and then lay the tiles.

If you want to increase the space through thin stickers, then you have to pray to the developer to make the walls and floors absolutely flat, and directly use tile adhesive to lay them, eliminating the need for leveling.