When using thinset, remember to mix just enough to be used in 45 minutes or less.

I then taped over the joints and coated the tape with thinset.

The larger the notch in the trowel, the more thinset adhesive you use.

I also recommend dampening the back of the tile before placing it in the fresh thinset.

This water in the concrete block and tile will slow the loss of water from the thinset.

Keep in mind that this tile must be installed with cement-based thinset mortar.

Before you permanently set the tile into the thinset adhesive, do a dry run to figure out where the field tiles need to be cut.

You should mix only as much thinset as you can use and cover it with tile in one hour or less.

If you put too much adhesive on the wall, the mastic or thinset might ooze in between the tiles.

If the adhesive is cement thinset, you will need to chisel or grind it off with a power tool.

Cement-based thinset works the same way.

Use a wet-dry vacuum and pipe the exhaust outdoors, as the thinset will produce silica dust that is not good for your lungs.

A cement-based thinset mortar must be used in exterior applications with a latex / acrylic additive.

How to Spread Thinset for Ceramic Tile.

For most countertops, cement-based thinset adhesive containing latex or acrylic waterproofing additive is best.

Perma-Colours' Flocrete is a decorative thinset (3-5mm) resurfacing material for renovating old or new concrete surfaces.

I had to use organic mastic for the decorative tile but cement thinset to permanently bond the crown-molding tile to the wall.

After ordering the tile and grout, I stopped by a local lumberyard for thinset cement, rubber gloves, a dust mask, safety goggles, joint tape and backer board.

Do not overbuild the thinset under the glass - this will make the finished surface uneven and increase the possibility that the thinset will shrink as it dries.

Mastertop 1241 is a thinset terrazzo floor system consisting of an epoxy matrix that combines marble, granite, glass or plastic chips with a binder that can be pigmented to any colour.

If the mosaic tiles are thinner than the field tiles, then all you have to do is put the thinset adhesive more thickly under the mosaic than you do under the field.

At the end of their last challenge, much of the unused plaster and thinset mortar had settled and hardened (with one even having their notched trowel stuck in their hardened thinset mortar).

Applying the thinset also confuses her: when Justin reads the instructions on how to use her trowel, she misinterprets using the trowel at a 45-degree angle to the wall as turning her trowel diagonally and applying the mortar with her trowel flat on the wall.

Thinset (also called thinset mortar, thinset cement, dryset mortar, or drybond mortar) is an adhesive mortar made of cement, fine sand and a water retaining agent such as an alkyl derivative of cellulose.