Recently, the number of companies that produce materials for construction has increased several times. All because new technologies appear, other methods of preparing mixtures. Each manufacturer makes a mixture using different technologies, on which the quality of the product depends.
All existing types of glue are classified into dry and extremely liquid. Liquid adhesives and mixtures are also called mastics. To be expressed more simply, a mastic is called any mixture for gluing. In addition, mastic dries with evaporation and additional solvents, as a result of which gluing occurs.
And dry mastics are glued with a cement base and various additives. These mixtures, as a rule, must be diluted with water before applying them. There are many types of mastic, which we will talk about.
Tile (skirting) mastic.
To install tiles from tiles, a special mastic prepared on the basis of latex or binding agents, a wide variety of additives is used. It is not difficult to notice that different impurities add to all existing types of glue. Thus, the mixture is enriched with various properties that further improve the quality of the final product. Mastic and adhesive mixtures that take the basis from oil products also have solvents in their chemical composition and properties, and mixtures prepared from latex have distilled water.
Regardless of what the mastic was prepared from, it, like other adhesive products, is primarily used to lay tiles on various gypsum plain or plywood slabs. If it is necessary to glue concrete slabs, this type of mastic is also actively used. It is worth avoiding places in which frequent and excessive heating occurs, such as a fireplace, heater, or a stove, well, and in that spirit.
The place that is intended for the use of mastic should not have any bends and depths. Because the places where the recesses are present, not to seal reliably, because the thick layer in this or another place, simply cannot grab normally. And this means that it will almost remain soft, so hardening and holding objects or tiles in this place is called into question.
Cement glue
Thin -layer, as well as adhesive substances are prepared on the basis of a cement mixture and sand, are kneaded with water, and with the addition of various special moderators, which help to gradually maintain the process of hardening. This type of mixture has excellent binding properties. When the mixture is already impossible to dilute it with water. Such mixtures are used for the preparation of concrete slabs and cement screeds.